Brazil – Cardinal Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians, visits Cuiabá

(ANS – Cuiabá) – On his penultimate day of visiting the Saint Alponsus ...

RMG – Meeting of the Salesian Cooperators Association World Council and appointment of the World ...

(ANS – Rome) – There was a recent meeting of the Salesian Cooperators Association ...

Brazil – The Rector Major encourages young people to attend the Salesian Missionary Symposium

(ANS – Cuiabá) – On the last day of engagements in the Saint Alphonsus ...

Dominican Republic – A collaboration agreement has been signed between Salesians and INEFI to ...

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2024 - A collaboration agreement was signed between ...

RMG – The Pre-Synodal Commission works on the Salesian Synod of Young People Working Document for ...

(ANS – Rome) – On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Don Bosco's Childhood ...

Madagascar – Presentation of the Rector Major's Strenna 2024 to the staff of the Mary Immaculate ...

Ivato, Madagascar – March 2024 – The Salesian Mary Immaculate Vice-Province of ...

RMG – Salesians of Don Bosco in Europe strengthen socio-emotional wellbeing in their schools

(ANS – Rome) – The Salesian Congregation Youth Ministry Sector will carry out a ...

Nigeria – Vocational retreat for leaders: "Discovering the dream that God has for me"

Akure, Nigeria – March 2024 – The Salesians of the Africa Nigeria Niger Province (ANN), ...

Brazil – Pastoral and social activity by Salesian youth at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in ...

Porto Velho, Brazil – March 2024 - The young people from the Salesian Our Lady of Fatima ...

Italy – Formation and sharing meeting of SDB and FMA novices in Europe

Mornese, Italy – March 2024 – On 14 March, 2024, SDb and FMA novices in Europe met at ...

(ANS – Lisbon) – In a great feast of colours, flags, hymns, songs and prayers, the Holy Father Pope Francis' long-awaited first meeting with young pilgrims at World Youth Day in Lisbon 2023 took place in the afternoon of Thursday 3 August. The meeting with the Pope was scheduled for 5.45pm, but young people started gathering hours earlier on the Hill of Encounter.

Portugal – August 2023 -The agenda of the Pope's visit to Portugal, in the framework of World Youth Day Lisbon 2023, is not limited to his presence at the central events, but is filled with moments of encounter, in various places. 2 August was mainly characterised by diplomatic meetings: the Pope met civil society authorities and the diplomatic corps at the Belém Cultural Centre, where he gave his first official speech. In the late afternoon, he met the Prime Minister at the Apostolic Nunciature, where he also held his meeting with victims of clergy sexual abuse. Before ending the day, he met with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated men, seminarians and pastoral workers at the Jerónimos Monastery. On 3 August, the Holy Father began his day with a visit to the Portuguese Catholic University, where he met some young university students. The Pope asked the university students to "seek and take risks" searching for a "new choreography that puts the human person at the centre". Pope Francis then left for Cascais, where he met with young people from Scholas Occurentes, a school based on the teaching programme created by the Holy Father when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. After answering some of the young people's questions, the Pope said that a life without crises is aseptic and tasteless, and that only together can crises be overcome. At the end of the afternoon, Pope Francis went to the Hill of Encounter for the first large gathering with the pilgrims.

(ANS – Madrid) – "I am still that little boy from Luanco, where I really feel at home among my people and my compatriots. It is essential in life not to forget our roots.” Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, who will be created cardinal in the consistory on 30 September, always speaks with a natural feeling of warmth. The 10th Successor of Don Bosco spoke about his recent appointment as Cardinal and other relevant topics in an interview granted to the La Lanterna program of  the Spanish Episcopal Conference radio station Cadena COPE.

(Rome, July 14, 2023) – Following the unexpected announcement by Pope Francis of the appointment of Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, as Cardinal, the Rector Major himself has written a letter to Salesians and the Salesian Family, sharing what the future foresees for governance of the Congregation.

Fr Á.F. Artime began by stressing that the news was completely "unexpected" for him, and that he welcomed it as a "gift that Pope Francis has given us as a Salesian Congregation and as the Family of Don Bosco".

“How much the Pope loves us!!!” the Rector Major writes.

Pope Francis himself, recounts the 10th Successor of Don Bosco, summoned Fr Á.F. Artime to the Vatican on Tuesday 11 July, for an appointment that he wanted, with fatherly attention, "to agree on the necessary timing of my service as Rector Major, for the good of the Congregation."

At the end of the conversation with the Rector Major, the Holy Father, who “was attentive, warm and a profound admirer of Don Bosco's charism and particularly affectionate”, has decided that Fr Á.F. Artime continue his service as Rector Major and Cardinal at the same time, for one year. He will then convene a General Chapter – the Congregation’s 29th – to be held in February 2025,during which a new Rector Major will be elected. He will offer his resignation from governance of the Congregation on 31 July 2024. From that point on his Vicar, Fr Stefano Martoglio, will assume governance of the Congregation ad interim, and it will be he who presides at GC29.

The Rector Major states in his communique that when his resignation becomes effective, he will take up the task entrusted to him by the Holy Father, a task he is not yet aware of. And he asks the Salesians and the Salesian Family to intensify their prayers for the Pope and also for himself "faced with the prospect of this new service in the Church which, as a son of Don Bosco, I accept in obedience, without having sought it, nor wanted it.”

The complete letter of the Rector Major is available at the bottom of the page (on ANS website) in Italian, English, Spanish (Spain), Latin American Spanish, French and Portuguese.

(ANS – Rome) – Following the unexpected announcement by Pope Francis of the appointment of Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesian Congregation, as Cardinal, the Rector Major himself has written a letter to Salesians and the Salesian Family, sharing what the future foresees for governance of the Congregation.

(ANS - Vatican City) - Today, 9 July, after the Angelus and reflection on the Gospel, Pope Francis announced the convocation of the Consistory for 30 September next for the appointment of 21 new Cardinals. Among the names of the new Cardinals was Rev. Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, the Rector Major of the Salesians.

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  • Italy – "Labs To Future": the final event of the "Labs To Learn" project in Valdocco

    (ANS – Turin) – The final event of the "Labs to Learn" project was held on Tuesday, 5 March 2024, entitled "Labs To Future: The path – The results – The challenges" . The project was selected by the "Con i Bambini" social enterprise  within the framework of the Foundation for the Fight against Child Educational Poverty and came into being with the intention of combating early school leaving and preventing educational poverty, increasing the number of young people with difficulties who fulfil their school obligation, access higher education and/or job placement, and opening the way for personal growth according to their inclinations and aspirations.

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