NEWS
(ANS - Santa Cruz) – When it was announced that the last Mass in the Equipetrol chapel would be celebrated on 16 October, thousands of faithful began to write messages of thanks to Fr Yohane Bosco Kurahashi, a Salesian priest from Japan. He came to Bolivia on 22 February 1980 and since then, with his charisma, he has made many friends. Now they will miss his Masses enlivened with all the musical instruments he could play, among them the harmonica, saxophone, trumpet and accordion.
(ANS – Lahore) – Fr Peter Zago has left Pakistan, the country in which he arrived in 1998 to sow the seed of St John Bosco’s spirituality. He has gone back to Italy, the country of his origin. At the age of 20 he left his beloved Italy in order to contribute to the mission of Don Bosco around the world. Fr Zago has a long experience of mission and he has done a lot for the youth of different nationalities - India, Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
(ANS - Les Cayes) - In the words of J. Brandolini, "it seems that hurricanes and earthquakes sometimes persecute cruelly the poorest and most disadvantaged places.” That is what seems to have happened with Matthew, the most powerful typhoon to hit the Atlantic over the past decade, and particularly the poorest country in the Americas - Haiti." It's been a few days since those tragic events and the number of the dead seems to have become a problem for the Haitian State, though there is talk of hundreds of deaths. The Salesians are not worried about their works, but about the poorest people, those who have lost everything. For this reason, those in formation and all the Salesians, including the Provincial, have gone out to help those in need of drinking water and other forms of aid.
(ANS - Rome) - The Salesian Youth Movement in Europe has chosen its logo, but has not yet its own official anthem, that is, a song that can be sung and played at every official meeting of SYM Europe, but also in meetings of national and local groups. For this "Small Team SYM Europe", invites everyone to participate in a music contest for the official anthem of SYM Europe.
(ANS - Turin) - "I want to draw attention to the situation of underage migrants, especially those who are on their own, calling on all to take care of young people who are helpless three times over - because they are underage, because they are foreigners and because they are defenceless. For various reasons they are forced to live far from their homeland and separated from their family." This is one of the central passages of the Message issued by the Pope for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2017. In full harmony with the words of the Pope, the Salesians in Turin have inaugurated a new community reception centre for unaccompanied foreign minors.