(ANS - Rome) - It is said that a woman once started asking people: "What is the most important thing in life for you?" The answers she obtained were predictable: health, love, money ... But when she asked the question to an elderly man, the answer was so simple and spontaneous that it did not require any comment: "To forgive." For this Lent, Pope Francis invites us not only to "forgive", but to allow ourselves to be reconciled with God. Even more, he invites us to "draw close to confessing our sins, to firmly believe in His mercy that frees us from our guilt."

(ANS - Bari) – This past week, Bari was the center of the Mediterranean: in fact, from 19 to 23 February, it gathered 58 bishops of the 20 Mediterranean churches for the meeting "Mediterranean, frontier of peace." In Bari, the Salesian work "Santissimo Redentore" has been active for over a century, a true educational oasis for youth in the working class district of "Libertà", which hosted one of the participants in the Bishops' meeting, namely Salesian Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, archbishop of Rabat (Morocco).

(ANS - Santiago del Estero) - Argentina is the first missionary land conceived and desired by Don Bosco. On 1 November 1875, Pope Pius IX received the members of the Salesian missionary expedition and blessed them. On November 14, three days after their sending-off celebration in the church of Valdocco, the first Salesian expedition sent and blessed by Don Bosco left the port of Genoa for Buenos Aires. Since then, the Salesians in Argentina have founded cities, hospitals, explored rivers, dug wells, created schools of all kinds and given names to lakes and mountains, but above all, wherever they went, they created Salesian oratories.