RMG - August 4, 2021 - The 10 new Provincial Delegates of Social Communication (SC) of America met in a digital meeting last Wednesday, August 4. The meeting was organized by Zaida Navarrete, coordinator of the Salesian SC continent, together with Fr Ricardo Campoli, of the SC Department team, and was directed by Gildasio Mendes, General Councilor for SC. The meeting's purpose was to get to know each other, to listen to each other and, on the part of Fr Mendes, to offer a few guidelines on the work being done at the continental level. During the work sessions, each Delegate introduced himself and explained what he was doing in his Province. Then the General Councilor for SC urged everyone to work in synergy with the Department team, to participate in the next meeting of social communicators and in the School of Social Communication "ECO" (name of the school, in Spanish), and support the “Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival” which has just been launched.

(ANS – Rome) – The leaders (LEADS) of the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) in the Provinces of Salesians of Don Bosco, along with their Youth Ministry Delegates and SYM coordinators, participated in the 'PLAN LAUNCH' programme on 31 July 2021 @ 14.30 (Rome time). The meeting was the first of its kind on ZOOM platform. 130 participated from California to Papua New Guinea. There were simultaneous translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

(ANS - Rome) - Last Friday, 30 July, a meeting was held digitally with about twenty representatives of different groups of the Salesian Family to reflect on communications between the various groups and think about the future of the new website, to be relaunched in November 2021. Among those taking part were the central Delegate of the Rector Major for the Salesian Family, Fr Joan Lluís Playà, Bro. Domenico Nam Nguyen, SDB, Delegate for the Salesian Cooperators and the Past Pupils of Don Bosco, Fr Harris Pakkam, Director of ANS, the Salesian news agency, and Fr Pierluigi Lanotte, web designer of the new website project.

RMG - 3 August 2021 - Committing themselves to communicate the hope and good news of Christ's love, four new Social Communication Delegates from the Salesian Provinces of the South Asia Region and seven new Delegates from the Provinces of the East Asia - Oceania Region gathered digitally around Fr Gildasio Mendes, General Councilor for Social Communication. During the meeting, organized by Fr Ernest Rosario, Coordinator of Social Communication for South Asia, and held yesterday, Tuesday 3 August 2021, Fr Mendes thanked the Delegates for their work and stressed that his main responsibility as Councilor General of the sector is to be a support who walks with them and prays for them. He also warned against the temptation to consider only technology as communication, when communication is instead holistic and embraces many aspects: music, art, culture ... Then he spoke about the upcoming events planned at the level of the Congregation, such as the International Day of Salesian Social Communication, the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival and the Salesian School of Social Communication. Finally, he concluded by presenting Mary and Don Bosco as models in the noble mission of communicating the love of Christ.

(ANS – Roma) – “Through the Sacrament of Baptism, all Christians are part of the people of God and share in the mission of the Church. Every lay person together with consecrated women and men and ordained ministers is co-responsible for the Church’s mission,” says Fr Alfred Maravilla, SDB, General Councilor for the Missions, in his message for the August missionary magazine “Cagliero 11”. Below we report his reflection on the role of the laity in the Church.

(ANS - Rome) – Several objects that the Servant of God Fr Luis (Luigi) Bolla used for over 25 years in the Eucharistic celebrations with the Achuar indigenous people, in Ecuador and Peru, were consigned to the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, by Fr Vicente Santilli, a Salesian missionary in Peru.