NEWS
(ANS - Rome) - The Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, with the consensus of the General Council, appointed Fr Igino Biffi as Provincial of the "San Marco" Province of North-Eastern Italy (INE) for the six-year period 2018-2024.
(ANS - Madrid) - "Niños esclavos. La puerta de atrás" (Child slaves, the back door) is a documentary project by the photojournalist Ana Palacios, with the collaboration of "Misiones Salesianas", the Salesian Mission Office in Madrid. There are 152 million child slaves in the world, 72 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. 50% of these 152 million children are between five and eleven years old. Thanks to the work of the photojournalist Ana Palacios, for the first time the slavery, release, rehabilitation and return of the child victims of human trafficking in West Africa to their families are documented through a book, a documentary and a photographic exhibition that will be presented in this month of June.
(ANS - Escuintla) - At 3:00 pm local time on Sunday 3 June, the Fuego volcano began to erupt, launching columns of ash rising above six thousand meters. The catastrophe has devastated the south of the country, several villages have disappeared under tons of lava and ashes, and dozens of people have died. So far, the eruption of the volcano has caused 99 victims, almost 200 missing and about 3,000 people wounded and displaced, in one of the greatest tragedies of recent years in Guatemala, a country that has 38 volcanoes.
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INTERVIEWS
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Italy - From ugly episode, light shines: a year from Don Bosco relic retrieval(ANS - Castelnuovo Don Bosco) - A theft that arouses the attention of the whole world, two weeks of apprehension and investigation, finally the finding that restores relief to all the devotees of Don Bosco: it was exactly a year ago, 15 June 2017, when the Carabinieri of Asti recovered the ampoule holding a part of the brain of the Saint of the Young. Twelve months later, popular devotion has increased. As witnessed by the Director of Colle Don Bosco, Fr Luca Barone.
EDITORIAL
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28th General Chapter: the same questions that pushed Don BoscoWith the letter addressed to all the Salesians of the world, the Rector Major set off the journey towards the forthcoming 28th General Chapter (GC28), a chapter presenting two interesting novelties: the return to Valdocco, 62 years after the last one the Salesian “Mother House” hosted, the CG18; and, above all, the approach. In fact, it is the first time that a General Chapter of the Salesians takes its name from a question: "What kind of Salesians for the youth of today?"
EVENTS
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Panama - 2nd Preparatory Meeting for World Youth Day 2019(ANS - Panama City) - From 6 to 10 June, 2018, about 250 representatives of the youth pastoral offices of the Episcopal Conferences, Movements and Ecclesial Associations from all over the world met in Panama for the Second preparatory meeting for the next World Youth Day (WYD), to be held in Panama from 22 to 27 January, 2019. Representing the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) were Renato Cursi, of the Salesian Youth Ministry Department, and Sr. Maria del Carmen Indurán, Coordinator of the Youth Ministry of the Central South America Province, of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA).
SPECIAL REPORTS
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Italy – For 70 years, an investment in hope(ANS - Rome) – Fr Stefano Aspettati, recently appointed Provincial of the Salesian Circumscription of Central Italy (ICC), has been witness to the growth of the "Borgo Ragazzi Don Bosco" for seven years. This is how he describes the evolution of the educational experience at the Borgo, in the 70 years of the Salesian center.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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I HAVE SEEN AND HAVE LIVED DON BOSCO’S MISSIONARY DREAMMy dear friends, I greet you all most cordially as I write this to you – though I am very late as regards preparation of the Salesian Bulletin. (I make the editor sweat because very often the deadline for submission is upon me as I sit down to write my message – which happens with everything else that bears my name and is penned in my own hand.)
InfoANS
ANS - “Agenzia iNfo Salesiana” is a on-line almost daily publication, the communication agency of the Salesian Congregation enrolled in the Press Register of the Tibunal of Rome as n 153/2007.