SPECIAL REPORTS
(ANS - Rome) - Develop a relationship of empathy with young people; work in the community and encourage the involvement of young people in pastoral activity; initiate broad processes; and in all this, have courage: these are the four constituent elements of "journeying with young people" that Fr Fabio Attard, Councillor General for Youth Ministry, offered the International Youth Forum: "From Krakow to Panama - the Synod on the way with young people "(Rome, 5-9 April), organized by the Pontifical Congregation for the Laity and Family Life and the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.
(ANS - Cochabamba) - At the end of the Team Visit to the Salesian Region of Inter-America (Cochabamba, 28 March to 1 April), the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, gave some guidelines for the coming years.
(ANS - Mexico City) - "The other day, as I left the subway, a man approached me. He had a common look and feel, but there was also something very special about him. He had been my student several decades ago, at the Don Bosco Institute, the first real job in my life, the one that decided my vocation. It is since then that I can call myself a teacher. I am a simple Catholic, a layman, an ordinary citizen and yes, also a teacher.". Here is a unique testimony on the Preventive System by Jorge Eugenio Trasloheros, a teacher who has experienced it throughout his life.
(ANS - Maputo) - The Salesian houses in Mozambique all have a Vocational Training Centre (VTC). This is not unusual, given that the learning of a job has always been our main way to give dignity to the lives of young people.