INTERVIEWS
(ANS - Turin) - Fr Rafael Montenegro, a Venezuelan, has been the Provincial of the Salesians in his country for several months now. At the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, he was in Italy for the Congregation's 28th General Chapter. He was unable to return to Caracas due to the stoppage of intercontinental flights, but from Italy he was still able to carry out his function of supervision and encouragement of their Salesian activity. "The situation in Venezuela has certainly worsened because Covid-19, which affects the whole world, has found my country in a handicapped state," he says.
(ANS – Manila) – Andre Launio is a young animator of the Salesian Youth Movement of the Northern Philippines (FIN), a past pupil of the Salesian Technical Institute of Mandaluyong. At 22 he was selected among the 15 young people from all over the world who participated as an observer in the 28th General Chapter of the Salesian Congregation. Here is what he reports of that experience, of his contribution, of his dreams for the Congregation and the Salesian Family.
(ANS - Montevideo) - Juan Pablo Reyes has experienced two quarantines and a series of extraordinary events. It began with his participation in the 28th General Chapter (GC28) of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Turin. He continued on in France, towards Taizé. But what should have been a profound experience of volunteering first became a quarantine and then a time of uncertainty and endless waiting at the airports.
(ANS - Ljubljana) - Dr. Tomaž Vovko, a former pupil of the Salesian high school "St. Francis de Sales" in Želimlje and actively involved in Salesian animation programs, is now a specialist in Infectious Diseases and Intensive Medicine who works in a clinic for infectious diseases at the University Clinical Center of Ljubljana. Married, father of three, he works in the frontline among critically-ill patients with COVID-19. In an interview with Don Bosko Slovenija he answered questions concerning the pandemic, treatment and quarantine, and suggested new methods of educational and pastoral work.