INTERVIEWS
(ANS – Tokyo) – “My joy is to share the gifts God gave me for the Salesian mission to the young people. When I offer all for the sake of the young people, I'm most happy. Important for my happiness as Salesian Brother is to get some professional preparation. I'm most inclined to the music or social communication ministry. Ideal of my joy is to stay amidst the young and develop my gifts to serve them better”. So says Salesian Coadjutor Brother Takeshita Naokatsu, active in various Social Communication services in the Japanese Province, and set to reach the “Blessed Stefano Sandor” community of Parañaque, Philippines, next year to receive specific formation as Salesian Coadjutor.
(ANS - Lyon) - Elyes, a young Muslim, and Valentin, an atheist teenager, are two students of France's polytechnic schools who have decided to pursue their mandatory semester of human formation at the "Valdocco" Salesian Association center in Lyon, part of the "Don Bosco" Social Action Network. Below, their impressions.
(ANS – Manaus) – "One of the goals of the extraordinary Synod for the Pan-Amazon region is to identify new ways for the evangelization of indigenous peoples in all the Pan-Amazon regions… With this Synod, the Church takes on an important, religious, political, ethical, and moral role in the defense of biodiversity, biomes, forests, mountains, lakes, living beings and differences among populations": declares in an interview Salesian father Justino Sarmento Rezende, of the Tuyuka ethnic group, who was born in Pari-Cachoeira, on the border between Brazil and Colombia, in the high Río Negro region.