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(ANS - Paris) - Embracing the silence, discovering meditation, learning to pray ... It is vital! But how can we awaken the search for spirituality and meaning in young people? Our world, filled with activity, noise, information and ongoing requests, arouses the fear of emptiness. The Internet and the smartphone try to overcome this fear of nothingness. Media professionals know it well: there must be no empty space or the audience will change the channel!

(ANS - Bethlehem) - Among the activities of the Salesians in the Holy Land that have received more visibility in recent years and that have allowed the Salesians to support themselves in the Holy Land are the Bethlehem bakery and the Cremisan wine cellar.

(ANS - Košice) - In Slovakia there are 5.3 million inhabitants and a Roma Gypsy minority lives there, making up about 8-9% of the population. Roma have lived in Slovakia for over 600 years, but despite this, most of them are not integrated into society. There are also some Roma priests and nuns, but the “Roma ministry” is considered more difficult than the missio ad gentes.

(ANS - Rome) - The venerable Fr Giuseppe Quadrio (1921-1963), who died at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, for which he had offered his life, was an excellent theologian and a mystic, declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI on December 19, 2009. His vocational story is a pure and continuous "yes" to Jesus, from infancy until death, at the age of 42 after a long and painful illness. The 10-year-old boy had already made a vow of perpetual virginity to Our Lady: “The vow to be yours alone and of Jesus forever.”

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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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