Colombia – Fr. Ivo Coelho visits Bogota
Bogota, Colombia – May 2017 – The General Councillor for Formation, Fr. Ivo Coelho, together with Fr. Salvador Murguía, who is responsible for the formation team of America, visited the Salesian Theological Institute of the “San Pietro Claver” Province of Bogota. They had the opportunity to meet the formators' team and all the formandi Salesians of various provinces of the Region. The moments of work were intensive and offered the opportunity to perceive the formation processes applied in this formative phase, together with formation criteria and plans of work. Such a work of deepening and arranging formative communities, especially in formation houses, was commenced with the Extraordinary Visitation of Fr. Filiberto González, General Councillor for Social Communication, at the end of 2016; the Rector Major, during the Team Visit, motivated all the Region towards re-thinking formation, relocating formation houses and the formation of formators.