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(ANS - Vatican) - On 9 April 2022, the Holy Father Francis received in audience His Eminence Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints. During the Audience, the Supreme Pontiff authorized him to promulgate the Decree concerning:

- the miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Artemide Zatti, Professed Layman of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco; born on 12 October 1880 in Boretto (Italy) and died on 15 March 1951 in Viedma (Argentina).

This act of the Holy Father opens the way for the Canonization of Blessed Artemide Zatti. The date of the Canonization will be decided by the Supreme Pontiff during an ordinary Consistory.

(ANS - Kyiv) - "I want to thank the Salesians. It’s really nice that there are people who take care of us. Thank you for your warm welcome, for all the help, support... God be with you and bless you!" says Roman, a Ukrainian volunteer truck driver. He, too, cooperates with the Salesians: he shuttles between his country and Poland, and on his last trip he left Krakow to bring humanitarian aid directly to Kyiv.

(ANS - Madrid) - An intense community experience of what is at the heart of Christian faith and life: the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord. This is what the Salesians want to offer to some 1,600 young people and families participating in the special Easter meetings prepared for this year. The improvement of the pandemic-related situation makes it possible to fulfill these celebrations with the usual canons.

(ANS) – The Salesian School of Social Communication, which began on 24 September 2021, concluded on 6 March 2022 with the region of Africa and Madagascar. Over the past six months, the participants reflected that communication does not take place in a vacuum. We are connected as a community and therefore the synodal dimension of communication links us as communicators of the Good News of Christ.

(ANS – Tonj) – Don Bosco Radio 91.0 FM was a dream of Fr Cyril Odia, SDB, and came into reality on 5th February 2010. Fr Cyril was the first director of Don Bosco Radio.

(ANS – New Rochelle) – Salesian missionaries offer more than 150 medical clinics and hospitals in mostly rural areas around the globe that serve a wide range of medical care needs. In many countries with Salesian programs, dental care and other necessary health services are offered to poor youth and their families who might otherwise have no access to health care. Honouring World Health Day, on April 7, Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, take an overview glimpse to the Salesian health programs that provide access to care for people living in poverty all around the world.

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ANS - “Agenzia iNfo Salesiana” is a on-line almost daily publication, the communication agency of the Salesian Congregation enrolled in the Press Register of the Tibunal of Rome as n 153/2007.

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