SPECIAL REPORTS
(ANS - Rome) - Today is the 160th anniversary of the death of Saint Dominic Savio, He died in Mondonio on 9 March 1857. His figure is well known almost everywhere in the Catholic world, thanks to the life written by Don Bosco in 1859, which has had numerous editions, reprints and translations.
(ANS - Seville) – Every year on 8 March, we celebrate a day that symbolizes the effort to achieve equality between women and men. It brings abundant concrete results, and it is an opportunity to pay tribute to all those women who throughout history have contributed their grain of sand so that International Women's Day is now much more than just a date on the calendar.
(ANS - Rome) - "Being uprooted from their homes." This is the metaphor that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) uses to describe forced migration. The refugee is like a tree that loses its roots, and is forced to leave the land where he grew up. Andrea Pecoraro, a lawyer and expert in immigration and asylum law, referred to this at a meeting of the Mondialità School entitled "Legal Clarity: refugee, illegal immigrant, asylum seeker, exile". The school is open to young people aged between 18 and 30. It is organized by the Missionary Animation Team of the Salesians in Central Italy. It offers opportunities for reflection on what is happening in the world from a Salesian and missionary perspective.
(ANS - Hanoi) - During his visit to Vietnam the Rector Major met about 250 Salesians - with specific meetings for the educative communities - and thousands of members of the Salesian Family and young people. At the end of a week spent crossing the entire country from south to north, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime took stock of what he had seen and left some valuable advice on how to continue to nurture the Salesian charism in the country.