(ANS) – “We have to think about human relationships that welcome, accept and are nourished by the richness of diversity. This is stressful in our interpersonal relationships, because diversity may lead us to think about divisions or the temptation to uniformity (…) the issue is how to simultaneously sustain communion and unity in distinction.” Andrea Sánchez Ruiz, rapporteur.

(ANS – Bruxelles) – April marked the end of the SAAM “Supporting Alliance for African Mobility”, an Erasmus+ pilot project financed by the European Commission to test an educational mobility of students and professional between Africa and Europe in the field of vocational education and training (VET), especially the engineering and manufacturing, hospitality, and agriculture sectors.

(ANS – Rome) – "Salesians for Social", the non-profit organisation of the Salesians in Italy that manages the sector of educational poverty and youth hardship, has become an associative network: with the approval of the new statutes by the national assembly of associates, gathered in Rome on 7 and 8 June 2024, the association takes on a new role, with its 306 members and 70 associates.

(ANS – Rome) – The youngest participant in the "Return to the Sources Course" for elderly and long-term missionaries is 66-year-old Fr José Angel Rajoy Troitiño, born on Christmas Day 1957 in Caracas, Venezuela. However, his missionary life has continued for more than 30 years in Mozambique, a country where he has been able to find great joy through his service to young people in need, despite the difficulties and challenges that he has never lacked.

(ANS – Rome) – The Superiors of 8 Salesian Circumscriptions belonging to 4 Regions (Africa-Madagascar, America South Cone and East Asia-Oceania, and Mediterranean), are the recipients of the usual formation and orientation course that is being offered in these days in Rome, in parallel with the plenary session of the General Council of the Salesian Congregation. Speaking at the meeting, which began on the evening of Sunday 9 June 2024 and is scheduled to run until Monday 24 June, the Rector Major's Day of Recognition, were Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, 10th Successor of Don Bosco, the members of the General Council, with the those responsible for the different Sectors that animate Salesian Headquarters.