NEWS

(ANS – Shillong) – It came like a typhoon as the news of the passing away of Cl. Pynshngain swept the entire Shillong Province, on 18 December. He was just 19 years old.

(ANS – Budapest) – A posthumous Righteous Among the Nations medal has been awarded to Salesian Father Mihály Kiss, who hid Jewish youth in the order’s house in Old Buda during the Holocaust. The award was presented by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and Israel’s Ambassador to Budapest, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, to the Salesian provincial head, János Andrásfalvy, on Thursday, December 8, in Budapest.

(ANS - Rome) - Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, after consultations that took place among the Salesians of the province, and with the consent of his General Council, has appointed Fr. Marcelo Farfán, SDB, Provincial Superior of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus" Province of Ecuador (ECU) for the 2023-2029 term.

(ANS - Vatican City) - The Postulator General for the Causes of the Saints of the Salesian Family, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, has transmitted to the Bishop of Savona-Noli, Bishop Calogero Marino, and the Coordinator of the Study Center Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, dr. Maria Rita Scrimieri, the news that the Dicastery of the Causes of Saints in its Ordinary Congress of Dec. 14, 2022, gave juridical validity to the diocesan inquiry for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Vera Grita, Lay, Salesian Cooperator, (1923-1969), which closed in Savona last May 15, 2022. This was following the verification carried out regarding the formal aspects of the procedural Acts and the consistency of the evidentiary apparatus: number and quality of witnesses, and documents collected.

(ANS – Thai Bin) – Thousands of people with physical disabilities from Vietnam’s northern provinces have found love, solidarity and unity as they join Christmas celebrations at a church center in Thai Binh. Last weekend 10-11 December, about 5,000 people with physical disabilities attended a special gathering to celebrate Christmas at the Divine Mercy Center at An Lac parish in Vu Thu district, about 12 km from the center of Thai Binh diocese. The participants, most of them non-Catholics, were served by nearly 1,000 volunteers including religious and college students.

(ANS - Rome) - The 24th Permanent Formation Course for Missionary Pastoral Care concluded on December 8, 2022. If at the beginning of the three months of study the participants had questions, doubts, and perplexities, at the end the rereading of everything they experienced led them to thank the Lord and all those who contributed to this course’s success.

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