Italy - European Meeting of people responsible for pre-novitiates

Turin, Italy – April 2024 - A meeting of those responsible for pre-novitiates from numerous ...

Peru – Meeting of ADMA members: formation, prayer and shared existence

Lima, Peru – April 2024 - A meeting of the members of the Association of Mary Help of ...

Italy – A new edition of the course for the new Salesian Family Delegates

(ANS – Rome) – The Course for the new Salesian Family Delegates is taking place in ...

Guatemala – 2nd Regional Meeting of Young Leaders in the Salesian Cooperators

(ANS – Antigua Guatemala) – The Salesian Cooperators (ASC) in the ...

RMG – The Youth Ministry Sector publishes “EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS” for a Youth Ministry that educates ...

(ANS – Rome) – A series of pathways are presented to gain a deeper appreciation of ...

RMG – The Salesian Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, to visit Valencia

(ANS – Roma) – The Salesian Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández ...

Italy - Video clip of the bicentenary anthem of Don Bosco's childhood dream and official anthem for ...

Messina, Catania – April 2024 – The Salesian Province of Sicily (ISI), through the ...

RMG – First Thanksgiving Mass of the Newly Ordained Salesian Archbishops at Sacred Heart Basilica

(ANS - Rome) - The Thanksgiving Eucharistic celebration by the two newly consecrated Salesian ...

RMG – "Deroga" document: extension of Card. Ángel as Rector Major until 16 August

(ANS - Rome) - On the day of the Episcopal Ordination of Card. Ángel Fernández ...

Italy – Two New Salesian Shepherds for the Church – Card. Ángel Fernández Artime and Archbishop ...

(ANS – Rome) –The Episcopal Ordination of two eminent sons of Don Bosco, Cardinal ...

Córdoba, Argentina - November 2023 - The North Argentina Salesian Youth Movement Commission met on 11 and 12 November in the Salesian Province of Córdoba to hold its last meeting of the year. Delegates and zone consultants shared the current situations experienced by each zone and each Salesian house. The commission continues to work with great enthusiasm to prepare the "Zatti Young 2024" event, a celebratory experience, which will take place in February 2024, and will bring together 700 young people and leaders from all the SYM groups in ARN.

San Ignacio, Argentina - November 2023 - As part of the commemoration of the 16th anniversary of his beatification, a feast in honour of Ceferino Namuncurá was held from 10 to 12 November in the community of San Ignacio, to the the "kultrum" where the remains of the Blessed Mapuche rest. The pilgrimage was held under the motto 'With Ceferino, God's outstretched hands for all'. On Saturday morning, people on horseback and hundreds of people made a pilgrimage to the cemetery where the remains of Rosario Burgos de Namuncurá, Ceferino's mother, rest. The mass was celebrated by Fr Natalino Freitas, SDB. In the afternoon, pilgrims continued to arrive at the "kultrum" and at 8pm, with an unusual snowfall for this time of year, the youth mass began, celebrated by Fr Honorio Caucaman, SDB. Immediately afterwards there was a torchlight pilgrimage to the summit of Cerro Ceferino, where pilgrims prayed before a bust of the young Mapuche. On Sunday, 12 November, there was a pilgrimage with thousands of people and about a hundred pilgrims on horseback, who accompanied the procession up to the "kultrum". Present were the mayor of Junín de los Andes, Carlos Corazini, and the local plastic artist, Alejandro Santana, author of the kultrum and the Vía Christi, from Junín de los Andes, and Laureano Namuncurá, who welcomed the pilgrims in the Mapuche language. Afterwards, the formal greeting was given by Cirilo Namuncurá, president of the Ceferiniana Commission, which organised the whole celebration. The mass was celebrated by the bishop of Neuquén, Bishop Fernando Croxatto.

Viedma, Argentina - November 2023 - Parishioners from the Viedma-Patagones region made a pilgrimage to the hermitage of Ceferino Namuncurá in El Cóndor. Under the motto 'With Ceferino, today sowers of hope', the pilgrims walked a 30-kilometre route. From the Don Bosco parish, in Viedma, to the Ceferino Namuncurá place in the coastal town in the province of Río Negro, on the southern shore of the mouth of the Río Negro river in the Argentinean sea. Hundreds of people walked to thank and pray to Ceferino Namuncurá. Once at the hermitage, the bishop of Viedma, Bishop Esteban Laxague, SDB, presided over the mass.

Bahía Blanca, Argentina - November 2023 - The Salesian University of Argentina (Unisal), specifically its Faculty of Social Sciences, hosted the 20th National Meeting of Faculties of Communication (Enacom23 in Spanish) from 1 to 3 November. The theme of this meeting was "rethinking communication to the public: roles, messages, formats, technologies". It was three days in which the headquarters of the Salesian House of Higher Education - John XXIII Higher Institute and Unisal - received hundreds of guests, students and communication teachers from different parts of the country. It was an opportunity to reflect, debate and explore the different dimensions of communication, today strongly influenced by technology, artificial intelligence and a constantly changing society. The meeting, convened annually by the Argentine Federation of Faculties of Social Communication, was of a high academic level and allowed us to continue reflecting on the interrelation of communication with culture and society, where the user experience is today a perspective that takes hold in all disciplines. And the world of communication is no exception.

Mar del Plata, Argentina - November 2023 - A Meeting of Works and Social Services in the Salesian Province of South Argentina (ARS) has been held place in the Salesian house at Mar del Plata. During the days from 1 to 3 November, the communities worked on the continental mapping of the Salesian Social America Network (RASS), in a virtual dialogue with Fr Rafael Bejarano, Reference person for Social Works and Migration in the Youth Ministry Sector. In addition, accompanied by Argentine theologian Francisco Bosch, they explored narrative theology, inspired by the imminent anniversary of Don Bosco's Dream at nine years of age. The days passed between community moments of prayer and reflection and visits to expressions of service to the poorest that the Salesian house develops in the city of Mar del Plata. After the days of work and prayer, the participants proposed, among other things, to join the "Francis, come" campaign for the visit of Pope Francis to Argentina.

(ANS – Cordoba) – Last Friday, 3 November 2023, the entire Cordoban Church and the Salesian Family of Northern Argentina gathered at the parish of Mary Help of Christians in Cordoba, to participate in the exciting celebration for the episcopal ordination of Fathers Alejandro Musolino, SDB, and Horacio Álvarez, diocesan, as Auxiliary Bishops of Cordoba. Family and friends, men and women religious and many lay faithful joined in accompanying the new bishops at this significant moment of their religious life.

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INTERVIEWS

  • Italy – A Salesian on the front line of the war in Ukraine: "Being close counts, words come later"

    (ANS - Rome) - As he tells with a gentleness that does not seem to come from horror, he is "resting a little bit" in Rome these days. Fr Oleh Ladnyuk is a Ukrainian Salesian priest who is a military chaplain at the front, among the soldiers who fight in defence of their country and among the civilians who for over two years have seen their lives wiped out. He brings humanitarian aid where the missiles fall and from those places he helps with the evacuation of young people and adults - so far at least 500 people, but there are probably many more. These days the Salesian – who carries out his ministry in Dnipro and teaches History in a state school in the city – is in Rome to take part with two other priests and a dozen lay people from his country in the "Accompanying when Trauma Hits" course hosted by the Pontifical Salesian University in collaboration with the Faculty of Educational Sciences, with the DON BOSCO NEL MONDO Foundation and the Don Bosco Network. A project that aims to provide theoretical and methodological tools to deal with the traumas caused by war.

EDITORIAL

  • Myanmar – Tragedy of Innocent Children in the midst of Armed Conflicts

    (ANS – Naypyidaw) - Myanmar finds itself immersed in profound grief and anguish as innocent lives, particularly those of children, continue to be mercilessly lost in the enduring armed conflicts. Families are left devastated by the tragic loss of their loved ones while the relentless violence shows no signs of abating. This week, a heartfelt plea from Myanmar reached our community, shedding light on the heart-wrenching death of a young girl Juliet in a military airstrike, prompting a unified call for prayers and action.

EVENTS

SPECIAL REPORTS

  • Latin America – Strengthening Vocational and Educational Commitment Today: 30 Years of the Salesian School in Latin America

    (ANS) – Since the first meeting in Cumbayá (Ecuador), 30 years ago, educational processes on the continent have found a collaborative epicentre which has given rise to the Salesian School in (Latin) America  – ESA, in Spanish – as a forum for reflection and a common path. Many Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) and other groups of the Salesian Family (SF) have enriched this synodal journey, focusing on young people and their integral development.  What are today's demands of us in the educational field? How are we building the Salesian School of the future? Can we further strengthen this great Salesian educational network in America? Some FMAs and Salesians who were at the first meeting in 1994, share their experience and their vision of how this journey has allowed a growth in the understanding of the youth reality, in the strategic decisions within the Provinces themselves and in the challenges that emerge for Salesian education.

MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR

  • I’M A SALESIAN AND I’M A BORORO

    THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB

    Diary of a Happy and Blessed Missionary Day

    Dear friends , I’m writing to you from Meruri in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I write this greeting almost as if it were a journalistic report, because it has been only 24 hours since I arrived in the middle of this Brazilian state.

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