DR Congo - Fr Alphonse Owoudou visits the Kalemie community in the Central African Province

Kalemie, DR Congo – March 2024 – As part of the Extraordinary Visitation to the ...

Spain – The Extraordinary Visitation by Fr Fabio Attard to Spain’s St James the Greater Province ...

(ANS – Urnieta) – The Extraordinary Visitation by Fr Fabio Attard to Spain’s St ...

Czech Republic – The 50th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Štěpán Trochta: celebrating the life ...

(ANS - Francova Lhota) – A significant jubilee is being commemorated in 2024: the 50th ...

Italy – Free to choose: Salesians for Social Work also sign the protocol to remove children from ...

(ANS – Rome) – "The protocol signed on 27 March is a sign of fundamental importance ...

Ecuador - Holy Week, time of mission in the Santo Tomás Apóstol Educational Unit

Riobamba, Ecuador – March 2024 - Holy Week, a period of deep spiritual meaning, becomes a ...

Spain – "FISAT Salesianos Social": a new name for the same entity

(ANS – Valencia) – Since the end of March 2024, the "Ángel Tomás ...

Brazil – Pastoral Coordinators participate in the Provincial meeting in Campo Grande

Campo Grande, Brazil – March 2024 - A Meeting of Pastoral Coordinators from the Salesian ...

Nigeria - Donor funding from Salesian Missions provides support for youth hostel

(ANS – Onitsha) - The Salesian Hostel in the Don Bosco community of Onitsha, located in the ...

RMG – Unifying Symbol of Commitment: The Salesian Missionary Volunteering Cross

(ANS - Rome) – In a meaningful step towards fostering unity and dedication among ...

(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco, a man of prayer and action, not only laid the foundations of an immense movement of people who throughout the centuries have dedicated themselves to the salvation of the young, but he also left all his spiritual children a great wealth of useful indications for never losing one’s way. Between what he used to say and what was later picked up and witnessed or heard by his contemporaries, and what he wrote himself, there are pages and pages of aphorisms that in a clear-cut and memorable style still offer valid directions for a beautiful, meaningful and holy life.

(ANS – Rome) –As we approach the feast of St John Bosco in this Bicentennial year of his most famous dream at nine years of age, for the readers of ANS we would like to propose a trio of dreams among the best known, most significant and most "prophetic" for the Congregation and the whole Church. We begin today with the one that went down in history as "The Dream of the Two Columns" (Biographical Memoirs VII, 169-171), whose content, so truly ecclesial, is often cited and recalled in many different places and circumstances, even outside the Salesian world.

(ANS – Rome) – Today closes the phase dedicated to missionary dreams as part of the journey through the Dreams of Don Bosco, in view of his feast and in the year of the Bicentenary of the Dream at Nine Years of Age. Today we recall the last missionary dream (Biographical Memoirs XVIII, 50-52), that Don Bosco had in Spain, in Barcelona on the night of 9-10 April 1886 and when he recounted it for the first time, among others to Fr Rua, his voice broke with sobs. Almost as if to complete the vision of the previous missionary dream, he still saw many lands then unexplored for his Salesians, many young people in need of their help and the Little Shepherdess who often appeared in his dreams, reminding him of that first vision of 1824.

(ANS – Rome) – Towards the end of his life Don Bosco continued to have visions and dreams concerning the development of his Work. Thus, in 1885, the chronicles report his fourth missionary dream, in which he glimpsed the future of the Salesian presence in Africa, in Australia and Oceania, and in China (Biographical Memoirs, XVII, 594-597). We offer it to you to rediscover it together in this journey among Don Bosco’s Dreams, in view of his feast day and in the year of the Bicentenary of the Dream at Nine Years of Age.

(ANS– Rome) – After recalling some of Don Bosco's famous dreams with a clearly educational and pedagogical value, today begins the mini-cycle of three events dedicated to rediscovering the "missionary" dreams of the holy founder of the Salesian Congregation. Given the development of the Society he founded, the countless works started and carried out with the collaboration of many other men and women religious and lay people of the Salesian Family, and the precision of many details reported about countries and situations that Don Bosco never visited in person, these dreams are among the most fascinating visions that he has reported. Let's start, of course, with the first, concerning the first land of mission of the Salesians: Patagonia (Biographical Memoirs X, 53-55).

(ANS – Rome) – The feast of St. John Bosco, Father and Teacher of Young People, is a feast day that is deeply felt and widely participated in all over the world. Globally, there will be numerous broadcasters and newspapers that will include special items in their columns dedicated to remembering Don Bosco and talking about those who carry out his mission today. On Italian television networks, for example, two appointments are already scheduled that will involve Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians,  the Co-spokesman of the Salesian Congregation, Fr. Giuseppe Costa, and the General Councillor for Salesian Youth Ministry, Fr Miguel Ángel García Morcuende.

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  • Italy – "Labs To Future": the final event of the "Labs To Learn" project in Valdocco

    (ANS – Turin) – The final event of the "Labs to Learn" project was held on Tuesday, 5 March 2024, entitled "Labs To Future: The path – The results – The challenges" . The project was selected by the "Con i Bambini" social enterprise  within the framework of the Foundation for the Fight against Child Educational Poverty and came into being with the intention of combating early school leaving and preventing educational poverty, increasing the number of young people with difficulties who fulfil their school obligation, access higher education and/or job placement, and opening the way for personal growth according to their inclinations and aspirations.

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  • DREAMS THAT KEEP COMING TRUE!

    THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB

    When reflecting on all this, I feel I have a little authority to say: “Dear Don Bosco, your Dream is still VERY ALIVE.”

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