(ANS – Rome) – The annual meeting of Youth Ministry Delegates of South Asia was held in ZOOM platform from 2-5 November 2021. It was animated by the General Councillor for Youth Ministry Fr Miguel Angel García Morcuende and Fr Patrick Anthonyraj of the Team. The National heads of the Commission for Dimensions of Youth Ministry also participated along with the Provincial Delegates for Youth Ministry. There were 16 participants.
(ANS - Rome) - Next Thursday, 11 November, at 11:00 (UTC+1), at the Salesian Headquarters in Rome, a Press Conference for the presentation of the "Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival" (DBGYFF) will take place. It is the world's first Salesian global film festival. The event will be attended by: the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime; Fr Gildasio Mendes, General Councilor for Social Communication; and Fr Harris Pakkam, Director of the Festival. The event will be presented by Fr Giuseppe Costa, co-spokesman of the Salesian Congregation.
(ANS - Rome) – Riding on the success of more than 15,000 online participants, to the dissemination meeting of the 28th General Chapter (GC28) on the sacrament of presence, entitled "What type of Salesians for the youth of today?", again this year 2021-2022, the Formation sector of the Italian Salesian Provinces Conference – in collaboration with the Study Center “Opera Tabernacoli Viventi”, promote a second edition of a formation program with a focus on the identity of the Salesian.
(ANS – Rome) – The fourth session of the School of Training for Social Communication Delegates in East Asia Oceania Region was held on 3rd November 2021 (at 3.00pm PNG time - 6am Rome time). It was entitled: “Institutional Dimension of Institutional Communication” and was attended via Zoom platform by forty-four (44) Social Communication Delegates and representatives from the Region (Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, East Timor, Myanmar, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands).
(ANS - Rome) - “It gives us great joy to see the 23 new missionaries who form the 152nd Salesian Missionary Expedition: we thank the Lord for this great gift. We know that it is not at all easy, especially in the last two years, to opt to be a missionary ad gentes and, often having to wait many months before actually being able to leave. As always, a missionary is required to be strong, robust and humble because such high expectations from so many are placed on his shoulders,” says Fr Pavel Ženíšek, SDB, a member of the Sector for the Missions, in a reflection on the missions with an eye on the map of the Salesian missionaries of the forthcoming Salesian Missionary Expedition.
(ANS - Rome) - The 2020s have just begun and several things are about to end. Lessons need to be learned from the pandemic afflicting the world. Health has become even more precious, the influence of social networks seems uncontrollable. What is fake news and what is real news? Towards what decisions is human culture heading towards? At the end of the pandemic, what will be the positive and negative implications? How is the relationship between urban and rural being reorganized? And how can the faith and the Salesian charism save from the world’s crises? Where are the Salesians needed today? What are the challenges for the sustainability of Salesian works in the future? To these questions, the "SDB Change Congress" shall try to provide answers. To present it today is its promoter, Bro. Jean Paul Muller, SDB, General Economer of the Salesian Congregation.
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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.
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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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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).
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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.