INTERVIEWS

(ANS - Rome) – To commemorate the feast of Don Bosco, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians, gave an interview to the journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona from the MediaSet group, in front of the Basilica of St. Peter at Vatican. Topics such as young people, the Congregation, Don Bosco, the Church, the role of the laity, life of witness, his own personal vocational story as a Salesian... etc., featured during the conversation. The interview was broadcast on Sunday, 28 January 2024 on the Italian TV channel TGCOM24, as part of the "Stanze Vaticane" (From the Rooms of Vatican) column.

(ANS – Rome) – "Hope is a dimension of faith and can give meaning to daily life. We must make people understand the value of a life lived from the perspective of a project to be carried out with others and among these a friendly, personal and merciful God." This is how Fr Joseph Costa, co-spokesperosn of the Salesian Congregation, spoke on the day commemorating Saint John Bosco, whom the Pope invited his audience during the General Audience to imitate, "educating young people in the faith and forming them in various fields of knowledge and professions, for a better future, in which humanity can enjoy peace, brotherhood and tranquillity".

(ANS - Ecully) - This month, the annual meeting of the Union of Networks of Congregations of Catholic Education (URCEC) was held in Ecully, not far from Lyon. Fr Jean-Noël Charmoille SDB, former Vice-Provincial of the "St Francis de Sales" Province of France-Southern Belgium (FRB) has been the chairperson of the organization for the past six years. In the following interview, he takes stock of Catholic education in France.

(ANS – Turin) – Today, with the responses to the last five questions, we conclude the presentation of the interview that the General Councillor for Social Communication, Fr Gildasio Mendes, gave to Fr Bruno Ferrero, Editor of the Salesian Bulletin, and published at the end of 2023 in the Note di Pastorale Giovanile (NPG) Magazine. In this final section, Fr Gildasio Mendes further explores the relationship between communication and Salesian education, tracing the fundamental elements that must serve as a compass for educational and evangelising work with today’s young people.

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