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(ANS - Macerata) - "I like Italy very much; in Macerata, I feel fine. I don't want our children's future to be like mine. Everything I had was wiped out. Destroyed in an instant. For them, I wish a peaceful life full of joy," says Mustafa Alizada, just 24 years old but with an already very troubled past: he is a young Afghan refugee in Italy, taken in, with his family, by the Salesians of Macerata.
(ANS – Rome) – On the occasion of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral, ANS, the Salesian iNfo Agency, offers its readers a collection of the many occasions when Joseph Ratzinger, as Roman Pontiff, visited Salesian works, homes, and facilities or those animated by the Sons of Don Bosco. Leaving his mark everywhere.
(ANS - Vatican City) - On the parvis of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican this morning, January 5, 2023, the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was celebrated, presided over by Pope Francis. In the presence of some 60,000 faithful and more than 3,700 concelebrating priests, 400 bishops and 130 cardinals, the final farewell to Joseph Ratzinger took place as scheduled. At 8:45 a.m. (UTC+1) the coffin with the remains of Benedict XVI was transported from the basilica to the parvis in St. Peter's Square. This was followed by the recitation of the Rosary and Mass at 9:30 a.m.
(ANS -Bogotá) - The XVI General Chapter of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Religious Institute, the eighth group of the Salesian Family, founded now 117 years ago in the lazaretto di Agua de Dios, Colombia, by Blessed Luigi Variara, SDB, was held in Bogotá from December 8 to 28, 2022.
(ANS - Palermo) - Named after Mamma Margherita, Don Bosco's mother, the "LABMAG" initiative, a tailoring/dressmaking workshop for young women and mothers hosted at the Salesian oratory "Santa Chiara" in Palermo's Ballarò neighborhood, is taking place. Meeting about three times a week, the participants have the opportunity to socialize, but above all to get involved in making handicrafts and creating a brighter future.