(ANS – Rome) – ‘Beat Air Pollution’ was the theme for World Environment Day 2019, a global event celebrated annually on 5 June. In the context of this theme on air pollution, Don Bosco Green Alliance (DBGA), together with the Don Bosco Network (DBN), held a month-long campaign entitled “Don’t Suffocate Our Future!”.
(ANS - Rome) - In view of the Extraordinary Missionary Month (MMS) announced by Pope Francis for next October - due to the centenary of the Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XV, namely Maximum Illud – the Dicastery for Salesian Missions has elaborated support for all the Salesians and pastoral workers who intend to relaunch the Church's evangelizing action in their field of activity. The subsidy, which has as its title the same MMS theme, “Baptized and sent. The Church of Christ on its mission in the world”, will be officially launched next Sunday, June 9th, Solemnity of Pentecost.
(ANS - Rome) - The summer session plenary of the General Council of the Salesian Congregation began on Monday 3 June with the first meetings of sharing. It lasts for 8 weeks and finally concludes on 26 July.
(ANS - Rome) - As part of the work of the General Council, and with the consensus of the other Council members, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, has appointed the Provincials of the Philippines North (FIN) and Italy-Sicily (ISI) Provinces, respectively Fr Gerardo Martin and Fr Giovanni D'Andrea.
(ANS - Rome) - Exactly 255 days left until 16 February 2020, the day in which the 28th General Chapter (GC28) of the Salesian Congregation opens in Turin. The time available seems a lot, but preparations have been going on for months, from an organizational and communicative point of view. ANS is also involved in this process and therefore offers its readers a specific section on its website, so as to immediately identify all the articles pertaining to the GC28.
(ANS - Rome) – Fr Filiberto González, General Councilor for Social Communications, is preparing the International Meeting of the Salesian Bulletin. In an interview, he explains the activities that will take place from May 26th to 29th with the Directors of the magazine's various editions, and insists on the need to collaborate in favor of an educational force that models mentality and creates culture.
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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.