Bologna, Italy - April 1895 - Don Bosco founded in 1876 the "Pious Union of Salesian Cooperators". In the photo you can see the cover of the Acts and the advertising poster of the I International Congress of Salesian Cooperators, which took place from 23 to 25 April 1895 in Bologna.
Beinette, Italy - October 2018 - On an October morning, the Alpini of the Beinettese group (province of Cuneo, Piedmont), equipped with tractors and trailers, organized one of their "collections of iron" benefits for community works, this time to favor the Salesian mission at Tappita, in Liberia, where the Salesian Fr Riccardo Castellino works. The total of the iron collected was about ten quintals.
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Rome, Italy - October 2018 - Antonio Boccia is the new World Coordinator of the Association of Salesian Cooperators. The announcement was made by Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, on the evening of Saturday 27 October, during the 5th World Congress. "To know that the Salesian identity is a priority for you (all) leaves me joyful and peaceful," the Rector Major told the more than 300 participants at the Congress, coming from 66 countries. "Young people, in their reality, are our priority as Salesians in the world. I think that feeling this means that the Holy Spirit continues to accompany our reflection and the journey we take: they have been days of grace for the association." Fr Á.F Artime, referring to the closing of the Synod, in which he took part, recalled how "in the Synod document you will meet many elements that speak of young people, their poverty, their challenges." Before announcing the name of the new World Coordinator, the Rector Major thanked all three candidates and he spent words of gratitude for Noemi Bertola, outgoing Coordinator, for her efforts over the last six years, at the service of the association and young people all over the world.
(ANS - Rome) - "Called to be co-responsible to answer and respond to new challenges", thus the title of the V World Congress of the Association of Salesian Cooperators that began Thursday, October 25. Over 300 Salesian Cooperators from 66 countries across the globe are gathered in the "Fraterna Domus" in Sacrofano, just outside Rome, to outline together the guidelines of the association for the next six years.
Rome, Italy - October 25, 2018 - The 5th World Congress of the Salesian Cooperators Association begins today, October 25, and runs to 28th, on the theme "Being co-responsible to answer to the world's new challenges."
(ANS - Rome) - The DON BOSCO NEL MONDO Foundation organized a meeting this morning, 23 October, with Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, the Salesian kidnapped in Yemen in 2016 and held hostage for 18 months. During the meeting, which took place in a family-like atmosphere, Fr Uzhunnalil, accompanied by Fr. George MK, spoke of his book "Vivo per Miracolo – Alive by a Miracle" and thanked all the participants for the prayers made towards his release.
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INTERVIEWS
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Chile – Former Salesian student in the fight against Alzheimer's disease(ANS - Santiago) - Dr Nibaldo Inestrosa, graduate of the Salesian Institute in Valdivia and national prize of Natural Sciences winner, is a pioneer and expert in the study of Alzheimer's disease in the country. In this interview, he offers an insight into the current challenges, but not before reflecting on his formative experience at the Salesian Institute in Valdivia and how this influenced his interest in biology and science.
EDITORIAL
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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.
EVENTS
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Italy – On-Line Course on Integral Ecology 2025: An Initiative of the Alliance for the Care of Our Common Home (Pontifical Universities & Atheneums of Rome)(ANS – Rome) – 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical letter on the Care for Our Common Home, in which he invited all people of good to “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet” (Laudato Si’, 14). However, as Pope Francis recognizes in Laudate Deum, the apostolic exhortation published on 4th October 2023, “our responses have not been adequate” and “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” (Laudate Deum, 2).
SPECIAL REPORTS
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RMG - St. Francis de Sales Communicator: All for Love(ANS – Rome) - The figure of St. Francis de Sales, chosen by Don Bosco as an example of a communicator, teaches that communication is a matter of the heart. In his expression, "Everything in the Church is love: everything lives in love, for love, and of love," we understand his revolution in the way of communicating, and how communication becomes fruitful when it allows communion and the exchange of one's experiences in a path of accompaniment and collaboration in God's project.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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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."