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(ANS - Rome) - Already a month has passed since the great spiritual and Salesian celebration of the canonization of Artemide Zatti: a unique moment in the life of the Congregation, accompanied by unforgettable events and moments for Salesians and members of the Salesian Family all over the world. To fix in memory every moment of what was experienced, as well as to enhance the numerous multimedia products created for that occasion, playlists are now available on ANSChannel, the YouTube channel of the Salesian iNfo Agency, that allow people to relive the emotions of October 8 and 9, 2022, and to get to know the figure of the holy nurse of Patagonia up close, in a fascinating and evocative way.

(ANS - Seville) - The "Red Española de Aprendizaje-Servicio" (Spanish Learning-Service Network), the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, and the City of Seville, with the collaboration of the Edebé Foundation, have announced the 21 winning projects of the eighth edition of the Learning-Service Awards. Among them, in the "Cooperation for Development" section, the project "Cunas que salvan vidas" (Incubators that save lives) was selected, which began in 2021 with a collaboration between the Salesian Institute of Pamplona, and the NGOs "Medicina abierta al Mundo" and "Ayuda Contenedores," and developed further in 2022 with the collaboration of 7 other educational centers. The awards will be presented in the city of Seville on December 16, during an event with in-person participation and live streaming.

(ANS - Rome) - The article, "New Texts of the Third and Early Second Millennium at the Università Pontificia Salesiana," was recently published in the prestigious international scientific journal "Archiv für Orientforschung" of the "Institut für Orientalistik" of the University of Vienna. This study describes part of the collection of neo-sumerical tablets and seals that are housed in the Don Bosco Library of the Roman university for the first time.

(ANS - Goma) - Yesterday, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, several hundred families, totaling several thousand people, from the area north of the city of Goma, occupied all the playgrounds surrounding the youth center of the Salesian work "Don Bosco Ngangi." They are men, women, children, and young people who are visibly depressed, tired, hungry, altered, and traumatized, fleeing the combat zones in Rutshuru Territory, North Kivu Province; seeking some peace and security, they have spontaneously set up a vast camp for displaced people in the center's three sports areas and on the fields of neighboring communities.

(ANS) – Exactly 25 years ago in one of the first East Asia - Oceania meetings of Social Communication Delegates with their Provincials (Batulao, Philippines - FIN province) the need and idea of “AustraLasia” emerged and the EAO regional news service was born. It was launched on November 9, 1997, indeed. For the occasion, the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, shared from Valdocco a short video-message of best wishes, congratulations, but most of all gratitude for the service rendered over all these years to the Salesians and the Salesian Family in the East Asia-Oceania Region, and beyond. Thoughts of gratitude and tribute also came from Hua Hin, Thailand, from the Regional Councilor, Fr. Joseph Nguyen Thinh Phuoc.

(ANS - Rome) – Issue Number 78, covering the January-June 2022 semester, of "Ricerche Storiche Salesiane" (RSS), the bimonthly journal of Religious and Civil History published by the Salesian Historical Institute (ISS), has been published. Studies on Fr. Paul Albera, II Successor of Don Bosco, and on the Salesian reality of Mogliano Veneto find space in this issue. There is also no shortage of other in-depth studies and contributions in the various other sectors of the volume.

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