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(ANS – Bangalore) – In an effort to highlight the catalysts of positive change makers of India, NDTV in its season 4 has come out with an episode that makes Don Bosco Technical Educative community feel proud. In the video, NDTV highlights DB Tech as a ‘Change Maker’ in addressing the significant gap in vocational training in India.
(ANS – Rome) – With less than a week to go before the 2024 Communication Conference "SHAPING TOMORROW" – which will take place from 1 to 7 August 2024 at the facilities of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome – the Social Communication Sector is relaunching advice that is very current and certainly necessary to prepare for the conference with the right attitude: "Do not be afraid of new technologies!"
(ANS – Rome) - As is the case every 25 July, in the Spanish National Church of Santiago and Montserrat in Rome, a Mass was celebrated in honour of its patron saint, the Apostle James. This year the ceremony was presided over by Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco. In his homily, the Salesian cardinal warned of the "great temptation" that the world has had throughout history: power, which can be overcome through service and witness.
(ANS – Rome) – The summer plenary session of the General Council, the last chaired by Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime as Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, closed on the morning of Friday 26 July 2024. The 10th Successor of Don Bosco, in the "Salesian Goodnight" offered to the community at Salesian Headquarters the previous evening, briefly illustrated the work carried out in almost two months of sessions, at the same time offering words of gratitude to all his collaborators and confreres.
(ANS – Belo Horizonte) – At the weekend of 19 to 21 July 2024, the St John Bosco Province of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, hosted the 14th Salesian Cooperators (ASC) Congress at the Salesian Institute in the city, Capital of the State of Minas Gerais. A total of about 370 Salesian Cooperators from the six ASC Provinces of Brazil took part, guided in their work by the World Coordinator of the ASC Association, Antonio Boccia, and also accompanied by the Central Delegate of the Rector Major for the Salesian Family Secretariat, Fr Joan Lluís Playà.