NEWS
(ANS - New Delhi) - International diplomatic efforts for the release of Fr Tom Uzhunnalil continue. The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) in a letter sent last Tuesday, made a specific appeal to the Indian government to take all possible means to secure the release of the Salesian priest from his captors. In the same letter, the prelates also confirm that the Holy See is also at work through its diplomatic channels.
(ANS - Bogotá) - "When it happens that a Salesian dies working for souls the Congregation has won a great triumph" (see MB XVII, 273). The truth of this can be seen from the letter that the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, sent to Fr Jaime Enrique Alfonso Morales, Provincial of the Province of Bogota. In it he expresses his sorrow and laments "from the heart the death of the Salesian Fr Javier de Nicolò, an exemplary priest and educator, who dedicated his life to transforming the lives of thousands of abandoned young people."
(ANS - Hong Kong) - On the day when the universal Church was celebrating its most important feast, the Resurrection of the Lord, the Salesian Family in Hong Kong had an additional reason to rejoice: the arrival at the Salesian parish of Mary Help of Christians in Tang King Po, of a casket containing a relic of Don Bosco.
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RMG – The missionaries of the 155th Salesian Missionary Expedition: Guy Roger Mutombo Mutshi, from the Vice-Province of Africa Congo Congo (ACC) to the Province of Southern Italy (IME)(ANS – Rome) – The final word from the new Salesian missionaries comes from Congolese Guy Roger, a missionary in the Province of Southern Italy. "My plans and dreams for my missionary life are to live in communion of spirit and action with my Salesian brothers in IME for the salvation of poor and abandoned young people, according to the heart of Don Bosco and to the greater glory of God".
EDITORIAL
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Myanmar – Tragedy of Innocent Children in the midst of Armed Conflicts(ANS – Naypyidaw) - Myanmar finds itself immersed in profound grief and anguish as innocent lives, particularly those of children, continue to be mercilessly lost in the enduring armed conflicts. Families are left devastated by the tragic loss of their loved ones while the relentless violence shows no signs of abating. This week, a heartfelt plea from Myanmar reached our community, shedding light on the heart-wrenching death of a young girl Juliet in a military airstrike, prompting a unified call for prayers and action.
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Italy – The chapel of the relics at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin celebrates 90 years and celebrates them with an exhibition on the Shroud(ANS – Turin) – Again this year, on 14 September, on the occasion of the liturgical feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the day of the Opening of the Crypt, the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Turin hosted an evening dedicated to the Shroud, as part of the "Culture in the Basilica" exhibition, entitled "The Shroud: witness of great love".
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Ukraine – Youth Ministry in time of war: the gift of the "little things"(ANS – Donetsk) – A situation like a country invaded and at war necessarily leads to "reductions": in security, goods, possibilities, and sometimes it seems necessary that even dreams and expectations must necessarily be less... But not every lessening means impoverishment. Sometimes it is just a return to the simplicity of our origins, our roots. This is what Salesian Bishop Maksym Ryabukha, Auxiliary Bishop of the Greek-Catholic Exarchate of Donetsk, Ukraine, tells us today in the continuation of his reflection on what he can teach the universal Church, and in particular the Salesians scattered around the world, about the experience of Youth Ministry carried out in a time of war.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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OUR ANNUAL GIFTTHE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR,
Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDBTraditionally as a Salesian Family, we receive the Strenna every year - a gift at the beginning of the year. I hold it dear to look inside this gift with these few lines so as to welcome it as it deserves, without losing anything of the freshness of the gift.