Corigliano Rossano, Italy - August 2020 - Yesterday, Thursday 13 August, a mural dedicated to Don Bosco was inaugurated in the municipality of Corigliano Rossano, in the presence of the bishop of Rossano Cariati, Msgr. Giuseppe Satriano, the councilor Donatella Novellis, and many inhabitants of the neighborhood. The mural initiative was born within a national project funded by the "Con i bambini" foundation and coordinated by Salesians for Social APS. The mural, by the artist Alfonso Caravetta, is a message of life and hope, which presents some local saints together with Don Bosco, meaning that holiness is close at hand. "Today's children receive from these figures of saints an example and an invitation to imitate them in the love they had for others and for the common good," commented Fr Natale Carandente, director of the Salesian house in Corigliano Rossano for the occasion.
(ANS - Alessandria) - In Piedmont, between the hills of Monferrato Alessandrino and Casalese, there is a territory very closely linked to Don Bosco and Don Bosco felt very close: we can consider it among his privileged places.
(ANS - Rome) - The coronavirus epidemic has spread everywhere, but in some areas of the planet its impact has been more devastating than elsewhere, due to the fragility of their economic and health contexts. The operators of the Salesian NGO "Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo - International Volunteer Service for Development" (VIS), based in Rome, have chosen to remain in mission countries to stay close to those in need and to try to curb the advance of Covid-19. With the motto "resto@attivo nel mondo" they want to give expression to their efforts, so they can tell firsthand what they are doing.
Bronte, Italy - August 2020 - Yesterday, Wednesday 5 August, in the town of Bronte (Catania), on the slopes of Mount Etna, on the 148th anniversary of the birth of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), the renovated urban park was presented; its name: Don Bosco. It is the name the town's mayor, Graziano Calanna, and the City Council had decided upon, having been designed by 4 young architects under 30 years of age and designed for the town's young people. The Salesian charism has been present in Bronte since 1880, when Sr Felicina Mazzarello opened the first house of the FMA in Sicily. The FMA Provincial, Sr. Maria Pisciotta, and the Salesian Provincial, Fr Giovanni D'Andrea attended the inauguration.
Mornese, Italy - 5 August 2020 - On the 148th anniversary of the birth of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB, Father and Center of Unity of the Salesian Family, at the Shrine of Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello in Mornese, presided at Mass during which the Mother General of the Institute, Mother Yvonne Reungoat, welcomed the perpetual profession of nine FMA belonging to the Vice Province "Mary Mother of the Church".
Bra, Italy - July 2020 - The Youth Summer Camp experience at the Salesian oratory of Bra has been completed. Divided over six weeks, it dedicated the first two sessions to older high school students and the other four to students from Grade 4 to 8. Lived in a particular way, due to the coronavirus restrictions, it was however fully successful thanks to the availability and resourcefulness of the organizers and the numerous volunteers who got involved: some working directly with students, rigorously divided into groups of 10, others welcoming them at the entrance to ensure safety prescriptions, others cleaning, others the secretariat.
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RMG - Preparation, objectives, challenges and perspectives of GC29: in dialogue with the Moderator, Fr Alphonse Owoudou(ANS - RMG) - Just a few days before the beginning of the 29th General Chapter (GC29) of the Salesian Congregation, Fr Alphonse Owoudou, Councillor for the Africa-Madagascar Region and Moderator of GC29, recounts in detail, through an articulate interview, the work preceding and underlying this responsibility, indicating the spirit that will animate it and the attitudes and conditions to make it truly a Cenacle in which the Holy Spirit can act, for the benefit of the Congregation, the Salesian mission and the youth of the world.
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RMG – Don Bosco: “The Fascinating Saint”(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint, history has ever produced. The humble work which he began for the welfare of his poor and abandoned boys in Italy has produced astonishing results, and today there are nearly 14000 Salesians working in 138 countries, and there are more than 200,000 members belonging to the 32 groups of the worldwide Salesian Family sharing the charism of Don Bosco and reaching out to the needy young people.
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India – INS youth solemnise Don Bosco’s Feast Day with ‘Ka Sur Kynud S-3’ Grand Finale(ANS – Shillong) – The Youth of St John Paul II, Shillong Province, celebrated the Feast Day of St. John Bosco with the Grand Finale of “Ka Sur Kynud, Season 3.” Organised by Don Bosco Media Network Television, the Social Communication Department of the Province, at Don Bosco Youth Centre, Laitumkhrah, Shillong, this two-month-long singing competition, which imitates the global singing competition The Voice, concluded on 31 January 2025, coinciding with the Solemnity of St John Bosco.
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United States – CATHOLIC WORLD DAY OF THE SICK: Salesian Missions highlights medical programs for people in need around the globe(ANS – New Rochelle) – Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins Catholic organizations around the globe in honoring the Catholic World Day of the Sick. Every year on Feb. 11, the Pope marks the day with a special message calling for spiritual and physical closeness to all those who are ill. Saint John Paul II instituted the day “to encourage the people of God, Catholic health institutions and civil society to be increasingly attentive to the sick and to those who care for them.”
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WHAT A GIFT TIME IS!THE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR,
Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDBThe beginning of the new year is illuminated in our liturgy by the ancient formula with which the Israelite priests blessed the people: "May the Lord bless you, and keep you. May the Lord show His face to you, and have mercy on you. May the Lord turn His countenance to you, and give you peace."