(ANS – Rome) – Preparatory work is underway for the 29th General Chapter (GC29) of the Salesians of Don Bosco, scheduled in Valdocco, Turin, from 16 February to 12 April 2025 on the theme "PASSIONATE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, DEDICATED TO YOUNG PEOPLE. Living our Salesian vocation faithfully and prophetically.“ Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, has appointed the members of the Pre-Chapter Commission.
(ANSin – Rome) – A few weeks after his last visit to Brazil, which took place between the end of January and the beginning of February at the Province of Recife, Brazil, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians, is returning once more to the South American country to make an Animation Visit to the St Alphonsus Liguori Province of Campo Grande, Brazil (BCG), which this year celebrates the 130th anniversary of the presence of the Sons of Don Bosco in the territory. The 10th Successor of Don Bosco will spend a total of 10 days there, from Wednesday 6 to Friday 15 March 2024, and a good part of his visit will take place in the indigenous villages of Meruri, São Marcos and Sangradouro, in the State of Mato Grosso, where the Salesians offer accompaniment and assistance for integral human development to the Boe-Bororo and Xavante populations.
(ANS – Rome) –In a world of information and communication in perpetual and ongoing evolution, professional development is the duty of every professional; this also applies in the Salesian Family. The Communication Conference 2024 "Shaping Tomorrow", to be held from 1 to 7 August 2024 at the facilities of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome, will also deal with this. And in the run-up to this appointment, today we address precisely the topic of the formation of communication professionals.
(ANS – Rome) – In the second appointment of the journey towards the Communication 2024 Conference "Shaping Tomorrow", scheduled to take place from 1 to 7 August 2024 at the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome, the Congregation's Sector for Social Communication suggests a proactive and attentive look at how to prepare the future of communication in the Salesian Family already now. Let us read it together.
(ANS – Rome) – We live in world in a constant humanitarian emergency, something that everybody is perceiving. The Salesian Family cannot ignore this reality and has acted accordingly to bring humanitarian relief and hope in some of the worst conflicts and Ukraine war is one clear example.
(ANS – Rome) – The Salesian Congregation’s Sector for Youth Ministry and the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) are promoting a higher-level formation course for Salesian leaders in Europe.
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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.
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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.
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."