NEWS
(Vatican City) - On 18 February 2016, during the Special Meeting of the Theological Consultors, a positive opinion was given (9 votes out of 9) on the reputation of holiness and the exercise of heroic virtues of the Servant of God José Wech Vandor (1909-1979). He was a Salesian priest and a missionary in Cuba in difficult times for the Church and for the Congregation.
By Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, SDB
Postulator General of the Causes of Saints of the Salesian Family
(ANS - Mumbai) - Youth Ministry, Social Communication and Missionary Animation are three strategic sectors for the Salesian Congregation which need to work in synergy with each other. This belief is the reason behind the meeting that is taking place these days in Mumbai between the Councillors of these Departments and the Provincials of the Southern Asia region, in the presence also of the Regional Councillor, Fr Maria Kanaga Arokiam.
(ANS - Arequipa) - There are worrying data on the condition of children and adolescents in Peru. More than 120,000 teenagers are working instead of studying. Every day you can meet thousands of children working in the street. Some sell candy, others shine your shoes. The Salesians of Peru have chosen to change the lives of thousands of youngsters. Now after 33 years they have come together for a meeting in Arequipa, the city where the first Don Bosco House was founded in 1983.
(ANS – Genzano, Rome) – When Don Bosco arrived in Turin, he came up against a hell. Don Cafasso led him to the streets to let him know the reality. Don Bosco saw the real and true misery: slavery, prison, people sentenced to death, exploited children, abandoned youth without their parents, without a home, without education, without religion. After more than one hundred years, the Sons of Don Bosco continue to live this drama of the youth, but give it some responses. The Salesian novices of Genzano, in Rome, want to be another Don Bosco in our time.
