INTERVIEWS
(ANS - Santa Cruz) - The Catholic Church in Bolivia recently celebrated the third national meeting of Catholic students, with over 1,000 young people from all over the country. They spent three days studying their Catholic identity and trying to awaken the desire of mercy and service to the needy. The presence of Archbishop Tito Solari, SDB, Archbishop Emeritus of Cochabamba, was very important. He made reference to the context of relativism of values that young people in Bolivia live in, and showed how to educate young people to live their faith and to practise mercy in their daily life.
(ANS - Dakar) – International volunteering enriches the lives of those who experience it. But what is it, in fact? "In Africa I discovered the stimulating world of Development Cooperation and I acquired skills in planning.” So says Leonard, an economics student, who spent two months working with the young people who attend the Salesian Centre in Dakar, Senegal. This is his testimony.
(ANS – Moshi) – The Salesian student Chihiro Morito is the first Japanese Salesian missionary in Africa. Baptized at the age of twenty-three by Fr Achille Loro Piana, SDB, he took part in various volunteer initiatives in Tokyo and began to feel the beginnings of a priestly and missionary vocation. In 2011 he left work and friends and went as a missionary to Wau in South Sudan. He made his first profession in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2014, and now works with young people in Moshi, Tanzania, especially among "the least loved and most unwanted members of our society". For them he wants to be "the poverty, humility and obedience of Christ". His dream is to become "the Cimatti of Africa".