(ANS - Brasilia) - The Salesian Forum for the Global Educational Pact took place online on 17 and 18 June, an event jointly promoted by the Brazil Salesian Network (RSB) Schools and RSB Comunications. The Forum involved educators and students in the commitment to the Global Educational Pact proposed by Pope Francis and renewed their passion for education based on the principles of the new humanism. The event brought together 1,275 students and educators representing 94 RSB schools, as well as special guests and provincial coordinators.

(ANS - Paris) – The 15th edition of "Festiclip", the short film festival organized by the Salesian Province "France-South Belgium" (FRB), took place on Saturday, 5 June 2021. With participants connecting via web, the finale saw 11 teams competing to win various prizes.

(ANS - Rome) - The 12th Congress of the Past Pupils of Don Bosco of Asia and Oceania will take place on 25 and 26 June, the first to be carried out digitally. The two-day online program envisions three sessions with the evaluation of the path taken since the previous Congress in Dili, Timor Leste (2016), reports from each Alumni National and Provincial Federation as well with two special inputs and the possibility for smaller group interaction.

(ANS - Lione) - Three years ago, during a meeting in Gradignan, the "Don Bosco Action Sociale" network (DBAS) was set up, designed to bring together in a single body all those associations active in the social sector that refer to the pedagogy of Don Bosco: the "Don Bosco" Institute of Gradignan, the "Valdocco" association that works in 12 sensitive neighborhoods, the AEPCR, engaged in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the "Fondation du Bocage" in Chambéry, the AIFST in Caen ... In total, 16 associations decided to join the network for a total of 65 structures involved. Three years later, in Lyon, the network's second meeting, which made it possible to measure the progress made.

(ANS - Rome) - For the first time in the Congregation's history, a world meeting has been convened where the representatives of the Mission Sector, the Youth Ministry Sector, the NGOs for Development and the Salesian Mission Offices directly at the service of the Congregation, along with the provincial representatives of the Planning and Development Offices (PDOs), the Mission Offices, and the Salesian Social Sector from all over America, gathered - from 23 American countries and 6 countries in Europe - to get to know each other better and strengthen the foundations of a common path in and as a network.

(ANS - Rome) - In the last two weeks of May and the first of June, delegates, consecrated persons and lay people from all the Provinces of the world participated in three formative sessions organized by the Youth Ministry Sector. This initiative was conceived in response to the need of the Provinces to form and share the pastoral and moral keys for the affective-sexual education of young people, thinking of educational criteria. The participation was very numerous and representative of the various realities: a total of about 580 people across three days.

(ANS - Santiago) - Representatives from different Provinces of the American continent participated in the accompanying meeting of the Salesian Bulletin in America, which was held in digital mode last Wednesday, June 2. The main objective of the meeting was to present the progress and actions carried out since the previous meeting, held in October 2020.

(ANS - Madrid) - Next Tuesday, 8 June, Salesian Fr Joshtrom Kureethadam, coordinator of the "Ecology and Creation" area of ​​the Dicastery for Integral Human Development of the Holy See, and Fr José Miguel Núñez, Director of the National Center of Salesian Youth Ministry (CNSPJ) of Spain, will animate a free webinar on the response of the Church to the climate crisis. The event will be broadcast from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC +2): in Spanish, on the YouTube channels of "Misiones Salesianas" and the CNSPJ and on the Facebook page of "Misiones Salesianas"; and in Italian on “ANSChannel”, the ANS YouTube channel.

(ANS - Lima) - On the occasion of the Feast Day of Mary Help of Christians, last Monday, May 24, the ceremony for the recognition of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Lima as a Cultural Heritage Site of the Peruvian nation took place. The ceremony, held in the atrium of the temple, located in the Breña district, was attended by various civil and ecclesiastical authorities, including: Jorge Muñoz Wells, mayor of Lima; Leslie Carol Peña Urteaga, Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Industries; Giancarlo Maria Curcio, ambassador of Italy to Peru; and Msgr. Juan José Salaverry Villarreal, auxiliary bishop of Lima.