INTERVIEWS
(ANS – Anisakan) – Founded in 1957, the Nazareth Aspirantate in Anisakan is considered to be the “Valdocco” of Myanmar, the Mother House of the Salesians. A dynamic SDB community – made up by the Rector, Fr Bosco Zeya Aung, and 7 confreres including three practical trainees – is serving the quasi-parish of Mary Help of Christians and the boarding school “Nazareth Aspirantate”, with more than 170 boys from Grade 7-10. During last two years Nazareth has also become a venue for “domestic” missionary volunteers. Here Fr Zeya Aung shares his opinion about the good opportunity of the “domestic volunteers”.
(ANS - Sunyani) - The Salesian presence in Ghana has to deal with the daily challenges of, among other issues, child exploitation, poverty, the lack of opportunities that leads young people to emigrate illegally ... The pandemic from Covid-19 has been recently added to the list of issues, with the additional difficulties deriving from lockdown and the stop to all activities. The Salesian missionary Fr Nicola Ciarapica, 72 years old, active for 30 years in the African region, offers a detailed picture of the current challenges.
(ANS - Montevideo) - Juan Martín Ferreira, a young 21-year-old, is in the second year of the Degree course in Social Communication, animates the Sambartolo Oratory and the associative groups of the Pio IX Institute, is a member of the Salesian Youth Movement of Villa Colón, why he worked on the organization of an Easter mission. Here is how he talks about the challenges he faced in pandemic times and the resonance this particular mission has had.
(ANS - Buenos Aires) - His name is Luis Mancini. He was born in Buenos Aires and has been an actor since his grandmother took him to theater festivals at the age of seven. At sixteen he was already acting in some companies and starting to specialize in this art. Until one day Luis, the son of a Catholic mother and an atheist father, transformed himself, on film, into Artemide Zatti, a man who would mark him forever.