INTERVIEWS

(ANS - Rome) - "It's a frontier that needs a lot of reflection, a lot of prayer and also a commitment to study the existing opportunities well, to offer proposals that meet the needs of those who ask to be accompanied and trained". This is how Fr Fabio Attard, General Councilor for Youth Ministry for 12 years, frames the new task entrusted to him - one previously non-existent: Director for the ongoing formation of Salesians and lay people in Europe.

(ANS - Tokyo) - Fr Gaetano Compri, a Salesian missionary, a pupil of Venerable Vincenzo Cimatti, says of his years of mission in Japan: "I learned from Fr Cimatti that to evangelize Japan you need to love it, live it and understand it." Also emerging from his experience, a key to reading the coronavirus phenomenon: "a time to reflect and return to God."

(ANS – Addis Ababa) – He dedicated himself to Salesian Formation and served as Provincial. He also coordinated the launch of Project Africa... Fr Chrys Saldanha did many things in his Salesian life. 50 years after his priestly ordination, here is an interview- testimony that can say a lot for and to all young Salesians.

(ANS - Buenos Aires) – Bro. Ariel Fresia is a Salesian Coadjutor, Director of the Missionary Mission Office "Por los Jóvenes-Don Bosco". In the context of the COVID-19 emergency, the Mission Offices, encouraged by the initiative of the Rector Major, are carrying out a coordinated response worldwide. We invited Ariel to talk to us about the pandemic, what it is causing in his country, and the actions the Salesians are carrying out in the context of this campaign.

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