ANS (English) ANS - Salesian Info Agency http://www.infoans.org/index.asp?lingua=2 http://www.infoans.org/image/LogoAnsRSS.gif ANS - Salesian Info Agency http://www.infoans.org/index.asp?lingua=2 75 30 <![CDATA[Sierra Leone – Don Bosco Children’s parliament meets in Freetown]]> (ANS – Freetown) – Children, young people, staff and religious of the child protection organisation Don Bosco Fambul celebrated this year’s Day of the African Child with a large children’s festival. Considerably more than 700 young people gathered on the premises.

At a session of the Don Bosco Children’s Parliament and a subsequent...

17/6/2013 14:23:19]]> 17/6/2013 14:23:19 <![CDATA[France – 8th Festiclip at Lyons]]> (ANS – Lyons) – About 80 people, mostly young people, coming from all over France and from abroad, took part in the concluding ceremony of the eighth Festiclip, an exhibition of videoclips. It took place at the Jean-Bosco Salesian Centre in Lyons on 1 June last. The festival consisted of an exhibition of various short films made by the young people in the course...

17/6/2013 14:51:25]]> 17/6/2013 14:51:25 <![CDATA[RMG – New Superior appointed for the Vice-Province of Africa Ethiopia-Eritrea]]> (ANS – Rome) – In the past few days, the Rector Major, with the consent of his council, has appointed Fr Estifanos Gebremeskel, a 44-year old Ethiopian Salesian, as the new Superior of the Maria Kidane Meheret  Vice-Province of Africa Ethiopia-Eritrea (AET).  The outgoing Provincial, Fr Genaro Gegantoni, made the announcement to the...

17/6/2013 14:51:53]]> 17/6/2013 14:51:53 <![CDATA[Belgium – DBI at Seminar on European Citizenship]]> (ANS – Brussels) – Next Thursday, 20 June, a Seminar will be held on “European Citizenship - Benefits and Challenges”. It is being organized at the request of the Political Office and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. The purpose of the seminar is to promote knowledge and relationships between the...

18/6/2013 14:49:54]]> 18/6/2013 14:49:54 <![CDATA[Belgium – DBI at Seminar on European Citizenship]]> (ANS – Brussels) – Next Thursday, 20 June, a Seminar will be held on “European Citizenship - Benefits and Challenges”. It is being organized at the request of the Political Office and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. The purpose of the seminar is to promote knowledge and relationships between the...

18/6/2013 14:51:45]]> 18/6/2013 14:51:45 <![CDATA[Spain – Salesian Social Programmes and job training for young people]]> (ANS – Madrid) – Yesterday, 17 June, at the Madrid Hilton Airport Hotel, Hilton Hopes 2013 diplomas were awarded to nine young people, aged between 18 and 32. Hilton Hopes is a project for work training devised by the Federation of Pinardi Social Programmes of the Salesians in Madrid, in cooperation with the hotel. These young people who come from Salesian...

18/6/2013 14:55:45]]> 18/6/2013 14:55:45 <![CDATA[Chile – Young people show support for families damaged by fire]]> (ANS – Valparaíso) – About forty houses in the Cerro Mariposa area of Valparaíso were destroyed by fire at the end of April. Since then, the students of the Salesian School in the city have been helping some of the families who were victims of the disaster. On 10 June last, their efforts showed concrete results.

A team of students from...

18/6/2013 15:0:51]]> 18/6/2013 15:0:51 <![CDATA[Vatican – Salesian appointed Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo]]> (ANS – Vatican City) – Today, 18 June, the Press Office of the Holy See has announced that Pope Francis has appointed a Salesian, Fr Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, as Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo.  He has also been appointed to the titular see of Media. The See of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguayo has been vacant for the past two years. Since...

18/6/2013 15:13:59]]> 18/6/2013 15:13:59 <![CDATA[Vatican – Salesian appointed Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo]]> (ANS – Vatican City) – Today, 18 June, the Press Office of the Holy See has announced that Pope Francis has appointed a Salesian, Fr Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, as Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo.  He has also been appointed to the titular see of Media. The See of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguayo has been vacant for the past two years. Since...

18/6/2013 15:41:34]]> 18/6/2013 15:41:34 <![CDATA[RMG – Work of Salesians for Refugees]]> (ANS – Roma) – Tomorrow, 20 June, is World Refugee Day, a day that reminds us of the plight of about seventy million people in the world. This number is growing, as war, natural disasters and discrimination force people to leave their country. The Mission Office in Madrid has released a statement outlining the work done by the Salesian Congregation on behalf of...

19/6/2013 14:28:1]]> 19/6/2013 14:28:1 <![CDATA[Cambodia – The newest Delegation of the Congregation]]> (ANS – Sihanoukville) – Just a week ago now, the Rector Major and his Council approved the newest circumscription in the Salesian Congregation – the Delegation of Cambodia, juridically dependent on St Paul’s Province, Thailand.

Preparation for this event, both in Cambodia and in Thailand, the mother province, began quite some time ago....

19/6/2013 14:32:28]]> 19/6/2013 14:32:28 <![CDATA[India – Consultations on Millennium Development Goals Post-2015]]> (ANS – Bangalore) – BREADS (Bangalore Rural Educational and Development Society), which had been chosen to lead and organize consultations in Karnataka on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - Post 2015, organized a one-day consultation on “Children: Governance & Equity” on 17 June 2013, at SJP college Campus, Bangalore. The consultation was...

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