(ANS – Rome) – Everything is now ready for the Grand Finale of the 2023 edition of the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF), the global Salesian youth film festival. The spotlights will be officially turned on, on Friday 13 October and for 48 hours, in the hundreds of officially registered Salesian Family venues around the world, the fascinating spectacle of youthful creativity expressed through the means of the “seventh art” and used to give shape to the theme “Love builds peace and solidarity” will be staged.
(ANS – Rome) – The missionary reflection for the 11th of the month by the General Councillor for the Missions, Fr Alfred Maravilla, in October, missionary month, focuses on how to fully appreciate what each individual can give, to various extent and in various ways, in order to contribute to the mission, to the building of the Kingdom, and to a personal and community approach to God.
(ANS – Rome) – For Salesian Mission Day (SMD) 2023, dedicated to the theme "Care for creation, our mission", and as the monthly anniversary of Salesian missions approaches, we remember the testimony of two martyrs who gave their lives to defend the earth: Fr Rodolfo Lunkenbein, SDB, and indigenous member Simão Bororo.
(ANS – Rome) – Modern communications media offer the world a rapid exchange of information. News travels at a speed that only a few decades ago would have been impossible even to imagine. However, the speed and technology of news dissemination have also led to many attempts to professionally distort reality. Many news stories contain distorted elements, and the facts often take a back seat. We are talking about so-called "fake news" and "deepfake", which are the focus of the October article written by Fr Maciej Makuła, SDB, member of the Social Communication Sector, author of the series of articles that revolve around the theme of Communication in the Church and in the Salesian Family.
(ANS – Rome) – With exactly seven days to go before the start of the international screenings of the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF), expectations are growing throughout the Salesian Family at a global level for what promises to be a great celebration of young people, their talents and their being ambassadors of a message of hope for the world.
(ANS – Rome) – Yesterday, 4 October, on the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the creation period, an initiative of the Church, came to a close. This period has helped the Church reflect on its relationship with our Common Home – also the theme of Salesian Mission Day 2023. The position paper “The Salesians of Don Bosco on the way to a sustainable world in the light of integral ecology” was published last year, and Emanuela Chiang, from the Youth Ministry Sector, contributed to the SMD with the following reflection.
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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.
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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."