(ANS - Rome) - In 2006, the then General Councilor for Social Communication, Fr Tarcisio Scaramussa, now Bishop, started a project for the digital preservation of Salesian materials. Fifteen years later, the principles that had been established at the time proved their permanent validity and the site, known as the Salesian Digital Library - or SDL - was recently relaunched, thanks to work that renewed the site's visual presentation, updated the underlying software and significantly expanded the contents: currently there are over 200,000 resources, in a broad sense, but their number is potentially infinite!
(ANS - Rome) - Issue 75 (July-December 2020) of "Ricerche Storiche Salesiane" (RSS), the bimonthly magazine of religious and civil history, published by the Salesian Historical Institute (ISS), has been published.
(ANS - Rome) - The new year has brought a new logo for the DON BOSCO NEL MONDO Foundation - an organism of the Salesian Congregation which has as its purpose the promotion, support and development of Salesian Works and Missions in the world, which has its offices at the Salesian Headquarters in Rome, and which publishes "The Salesian Bulletin", the magazine founded by Don Bosco and sent free of charge throughout the world.
(ANS - Rome) - On 13 January the Salesian Mission Day (SMD) was presented to the community of the Salesian Headquarters, an unmissable event for the Salesian Family, which for more than thirty years has been celebrated and proposed to the whole world Salesian.
(ANS - Rome) - The Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, has promulgated 2021 as a year dedicated to Fr Paolo Albera, the Successor of Don Bosco at the head of the Congregation, on the first centenary of his death (Turin Valdocco, 29 October 1921).
(ANS – Rome) – On the 7th of January 2021, the Rector Major has appointed Fr. Fidel MA. Daza Orendain SDB as the sixth Provincial of the Province Mary Help of Christians Philippines South-Pakistan for the six years 2021-2027.
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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.