SPECIAL REPORTS
(ANS - Manila) – Faced with today's reality, modernity, Salesians all over the world try to be present among the young people in the "digital courtyard". But how to be present in an ambivalent place, where pornography and the Gospel both find space? Thus, the summary of the reflection Fr Armand Robleza, from the Province of the Philippines North (FIN), shared in Manila during a meeting with his Salesian coadjutor brothers.
(ANS - Tiruchy) - "Don Bosco Media" is a center for the arts, media studies and communications located in the Salesian Province of Tiruchy, Tamil Nadu State, India. It is equipped with high-level technologies, knowledge and skills, which it uses to offer young people the best education in the fields of media studies and art. Its ambition is to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor through formal and non-formal education to the media and help its students to think critically, express themselves creatively, communicate effectively and actively involve them in the process of socio-cultural transformation and personal development.
(ANS - Rome) - On April 2, 2005, after 85 years of life and over 26 of the Pontificate, John Paul II died. The young people, whom he had always sought and invited to follow Christ, accompanied him in his last moments on this earth, filling St. Peter's Square in the hours of his agony and displaying banners with the words "Santo Subito", literally 'Saint right away', already on the day of his funeral. At the origins of this great feeling between the Polish Pope and the young there was also the contribution of the Salesian environment wherein he matured his vocation, especially due to the charism of a committed lay person, Jan Tyranowski.
(ANS - Rome) - This Christmas, Pope Francis called upon all men and women of good will to see the faces of suffering children in the face of the child Jesus, to think of the many children in the world who suffer and are victims of war, violence and forced migration. To understand the import, some data.