SPECIAL REPORTS
(ANS – Rome) – As Salesians, we join the call and invitation of Pope Francis for a Global Compact on Education: as a mission, as a choice, as a future. To say "Salesians" is to say Education and Evangelization of young people. Once with Don Bosco, today like Don Bosco, renewed in the forms, in the processes, in the methodologies we need to make them live the opportunity of a new humanity. The best we can offer the new generations is education, thinking about the future of humanity with and for the young.
(ANS - Rome) - On 15 September 1993, in Palermo, Fr Pino Puglisi was brutally killed by the mafia. A symbolic coincidence, on the same day of this year Fr Roberto Malgesini was killed. Fr Puglisi was bothersome because he distanced young people from the world of crime, removed from the street those boys who, without his help, would have been sucked into the life of organized crime, used for small robberies and drug dealing. Fr Malgesini had always been involved in helping people in difficulty, the poorest people. For years he translated the Christian message into practice, bringing breakfast to the poor, accompanying them to doctors himself, managing the municipal canteen and dormitory, welcoming people, mainly migrants.
(ANS - New Rochelle) - Since the beginning of the pandemic, "Salesian Missions", the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, has responded to the emergency by helping the most affected populations in the most critical conditions. Thanks to its funds, food rations, personal hygiene products and medical care have been provided.
(ANS – Rome) – History will register in its manuals and essays the transforming experience lived by humanity in this time and in our space. In our educative and pastoral spaces, a "new normality" is drawn.