NEWS
(ANS - Rome) - The fourth video of the Salesian iNfo Agency's new feature "ANS News Video" has already been online for a few days on the ANS YouTube channel. This edition, dedicated to the most important activities and events carried out within the Congregation and the Salesian Family last April, is full of various important and interesting news.
(ANS - Madrid) - Last Thursday, May 19, the Museum of "Misiones Salesianas," the Salesian Mission Office in Madrid, inaugurated the collective photographic exhibition "La vida en una maleta: historias de un conflicto armado" (Life in a Suitcase: Stories of an Armed Conflict). It reflects on the consequences of the war in Ukraine for the population displaced within and outside its borders. More than 70 people attended the opening and tour led by three of its photographers, Olmo Calvo, Edu León, and Bruno Thevenin.
(ANS – Heverlee) – “Don Bosco Youth-Net ivzw”, the European network of Salesian youth organisations, and its partners announce their 2-year project on the topic of volunteering: “The future is Europe: voluntary service and social change”.
PHOTO GALLERY
INTERVIEWS
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Czech Republic – Ukrainian children need to talk about the war
(ANS - České Budějovice) – The Salesian Youth Centre in České Budějovice employs two Ukrainian women to run programs for Ukrainian children. Masha Shumkova is a teacher and Olena Halushka is a psychologist. Both of them used to work at a children's centre in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. What is the situation of Ukrainian children? What do they have to deal with? And how can we help people fleeing the war? Olena answered these and other questions.
EVENTS
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Ecuador – VI International Seminar and Plenary Session of IUS Education Group
(ANS - Quito) - The VI International Seminar and Plenary Session of the IUS Education Group of the Salesian Institutions of Higher Education (IUS) took place from April 26th to 28th, at the Quito campus of the Salesian Polytechnic University of Ecuador with the participation of authorities, professors, and researchers from 22 Salesian universities from America, Asia, and Europe.
SPECIAL REPORTS
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RMG – "The language of art, a new way to communicate": the fifth article by Fr. Gildasio Mendes in the series "St. Francis de Sales Communicator. Inner pilgrimage, wisdom in the Art of Communicating"
(ANS - Rome) - Today, May 24, the Feast Day of Mary Help of Christians, the fifth of six articles written by Fr. Gildasio Mendes, General Councilor for Social Communication, on the theme, "St. Francis de Sales Communicator. Inner Pilgrimage, Wisdom in the Art of Communication."
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR: THE SDB GOOD SAMARITAN — A SAINT!
In the Salesian Family, in the Church of Argentina, especially in the Viedma Diocese, in Italy, in the Reggio Emilia Diocese, and especially in Boretto, his birthplace, there reigns great enthusiasm: Artemides Zatti will be declared a Saint.