SPECIAL REPORTS
(ANS - Goma) - While the aggressions and attacks continue to rage in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo - the Study Center for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights (CEPADHO) reports a further 45 civilian victims in various massacres within just ten days in the region - Salesian testimonies also continue to reach the ANS editorial office on the luminous figure of Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed on 22 February in Goma, together with the escort carabiniere, Vittorio Iacovacci, and the Congolese driver Mustafa Milambo.
(ANS - Tijuana) - The "PROYECTO SALESIANO TIJUANA, AC," is a non-profit organization that seeks the integral promotion of children, young people, adolescents and vulnerable people through the Salesian charism, carrying out preventive actions aimed at forming "Good Christians and upright citizens". And this month of March is significant for the Tijuana Salesian Project, because it commemorates the 34th anniversary of its foundation.
(ANS - San Salvatore Monferrato) - Among the towns of Monferrato Casalese Alessandrino, a territory that has offered so many vocations and many stories of holiness to the Salesian Family, there is also San Salvatore Monferrato, a small agricultural town in which, among others, the Salesian Fr Giovanni Guarona was born: a missionary pioneer who for 40 years carried out evangelization and the Salesian mission, first in mainland China, following the Salesian saint Louis Versiglia, and then in Macao and Hong Kong.
(ANS - Paris) - For many years, unaccompanied foreign minors (UASC) have been welcomed in the Homes of Children of a Social Character (MECS) of the “Don Bosco Action Social” network. But in the last five years this apostolate has received a clear acceleration, so much so that today there are almost a thousand UASCs accompanied by the Salesian network. Like? Where? Why? Here is the answer to all these questions.