(ANS - Rome) - The Accompaniment Course for recently appointed Provincials is being held from 21 to 31 March 2021 at the Salesian Headquarters in Rome. For ten days, six Provincials of as many Salesian Provinces of Europe have the opportunity to learn and discuss the roadmap for the current six-year term directly with the Rector Major and his Council, while experiencing Salesian communion and getting to know the organisms and the central structures of the Congregation better.
(ANS – Rome) – “Let me share with you, in all simplicity, one part of the interview I gave to the editor of the Salesian Bulletin in Italy, Fr Bruno Ferrero. I emphasise some of the points regarding communication today from a Salesian perspective, based on the planning of the Communications Department for the next five years. Thanks for your attention and fellowship.” Fr. Gildasio Mendes, Councillor for Social Communication.
(ANS – Rome) – Since 1993, March 22 has been designated as World Water Day. This commemoration focuses our attention on the importance of water in our lives and raises awareness concerning the 2.2 billion people who live without access to safe water. Since 2015, an essential aspect of the observance is to encourage governments to work at achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. To reach this goal, all members of society need to take concrete actions to help preserve our precious resource of water and work to ensure that proper sanitation is possible throughout the world. And the Salesians do their best to reach it.
(ANS - Rome) - On the eve of the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, and in the special year that Pope Francis has dedicated to the Patron of the universal Church, the Salesian Family can look to Don Bosco to learn from him how to follow the foster father of Jesus.
Rome, RMG - March 2021 - The online meeting of the Economer General with the Provincial Economers of the East Asia-Oceania Region takes place from 16 to 18 March. The meeting focuses on economic issues, reports and the Economer General's Office portal. It is led by Salesian Brother Jean Paul Muller, Economer General of the Salesian Congregation, and by Fr Joseph Nguyen Thinh Phuoc, Councilor for the East Asia Region-Oceania.
(ANS – Rome) – In a continent in continuous growth and social ferment, the Salesian presence too is changing and growing.
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INTERVIEWS
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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.
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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Spain – 33rd Edition of the Edebé Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature: Here Are the Winners(ANS – Madrid) – The 33rd edition of the Edebé Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature has been awarded to Beatriz Giménez de Ory (Madrid, 1972) for her novel Tres niños tristes y medio unicornio (Three Sad Children and Half a Unicorn) and David Lozano (Zaragoza, 1974) for his novel La cacería (The Hunt).
SPECIAL REPORTS
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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.”
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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GOOD, FAITHFUL, AND COURAGEOUS SERVANTSTHE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDB
During this Jubilee year, in this difficult world, we are invited to rise up, set out again, and, in newness of life, make our journey as human beings and believers.