NEWS PHOTOS
Recife, Brazil - August 2016 - In Recife on Sunday 7 August, about 400 people from different groups of the Salesian Family participated in the Spirituality Day of the Salesian Family in the North-East of Brazil. The event opened with the Eucharist presided over by the Provincial of the Recife Province, Fr Nivaldo Pessinatti, and continued with a talk on Merciful Love and being family, by Fr Sérgio Lúcio. The day was marked by music and dance, prayer and sharing.
Enna, Italy - August 2016 - From 4 to 7 August the Salesian Cooperators of Sicily met in Enna for the annual Spirituality Days. This year's theme was Mercy in the practice of Christian life, presented by Fr Paul Caltabiano SDB, Delegate for the Cooperators in Sicily. One of the highlights was the pilgrimage with the icon of Our Lady of Mercy to the shrine of Our Lady of Valverde.
Bogota, Colombia - August 16, 2016 - Fr Filiberto Gonzalez, SDB, General Councillor for Social Communication officially began the Extraordinary Visitation of the San Pedro Claver Province of Bogotá (COB) with a meeting with the Provincial Council on Tuesday 16 August. The visitation will run until 24 November.
Ceuta, Spain - August 2016 - In the first fortnight of August, several young people from Salesian centres in Spain took part in a work camp in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, frontier land for Migration to Europe from the Dark Continent. The camp, organized by the Spanish Salesian NGOs "VOLS - Voluntariat Solidari", "Solidaridad Don Bosco" and "Jóvenes y Desarrollo" allowed participants to be informed on the theme of migration and to serve the people in the Temporary Residence Centre for Immigrants run by the "Fundación Elin".