(ANS - Rio de Janeiro) - It was a day like today 139 years ago when, on July 14, 1883, the first Salesians sent on a mission to Brazil arrived in Rio de Janeiro. Today, so many years later, the Salesian Family constitutes a vast movement for the education and evangelization of the country's youth.

(ANS - Rome) - On the day of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion closely linked to the figure of St. Francis de Sales, we publish the last of six articles written by Fr. Gildasio Mendes, General Councilor for Social Communication, on the theme, "St. Francis de Sales Communicator. Inner Pilgrimage, Wisdom in the Art of Communication."

(ANS - Rome) - “Whoever. Wherever. Whenever. Everyone has the right to seek safety” is the motto chosen for World Refugee Day 2022, which is celebrated today, June 20. According to the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the end of 2021, there were 89.3 million people fleeing war, violence, persecution, and human rights violations - a figure more than double that calculated 10 years earlier, and one that still does not take into account the approximately 12 million Ukrainians forced to flee because of war. That is why today it can be said that in the world people forced to leave their homes has reached the incredible figure of more than 100 million.