(ANS - Ciudad de México) - From 26 to 28 March, Fr Hugo Orozco Sánchez SDB, Regional Councilor for Interamerica, as part of his Extraordinary Visitation to the "Our Lady of Guadalupe" Province of Mexico-México (MEM), stopped in the social work “Artesanado Salesiano di Nazareth” in Mexico City, where he met and got to know the whole educative-pastoral community. Accompanying him in many moments of his visit were also Fr Ignacio Ocampo Uribe, MEM Provincial, and his Vicar, Fr Carlos Barbosa Castillo.

Vatican City - April 2021 – Again this year, the celebration of Easter was marked by the restrictions of the pandemic. However, in the most solemn liturgy of the year, in a still half-empty St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis exhorted not to lose hope and to have faith in rebirth. After the Mass, the Pontiff gave the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing. In his message, there was a strong appeal to share vaccines with the poorest countries, to remove restrictions on religious freedom and to put an end to too many wars and violence. A strong message, under the banner of peace and hope. A theme, that of hope, which the Holy Father had already invoked during the Via Crucis on Friday 2 April: a Via Crucis with the meditations and prayers of the little ones, to whom the Pope's caress reached.

(ANS - Iauaretê) - How is Easter lived and experienced in the missions? Salesians tell us how one prepares for the most important days of the year in the poorest lands in the world. In particular, Fr Roberto Cappelletti, a missionary in the Amazon, in Iauaretê, at the extreme western border of Brazil, right in front of the border with Colombia, wanted to share the solemn moment of the Easter Vigil in his mission.

The one that touches peoples’ lives and transforms them

My friends, readers of the Salesian Bulletin, I greet you again with all cordiality by means of this Salesian magazine founded by Don Bosco himself. It was his intention to use this bulletin to convey to the laity the reality of his young Salesian Congregation, which sought to be faithful to God as it was growing little by little. As we read in the 1877 issue, it "is published to give a report of things done or to be done according to the purpose of the Salesian mission, which is the care of souls and the good of civil society."

(ANS - Madrid) - The Easter Triduum is the culminating moment of the entire liturgical year and is a living expression of the faith of millions of people around the world. Aware of this, the Salesians in Spain are preparing the Easter youth meetings. About 2,000 young people, according to forecasts, will participate in this experience of meditation on the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, always in compliance with health measures: some in local centers, others through the online broadcasts of some religious celebrations and moments of encounter.

(ANS - Guatemala City) - Although immersed in a period of many restrictions and quarantines, worldwide, due to COVID-19, the Salesians feel summoned and challenged by these circumstances and have sought ways to continue accompanying young people that God has entrusted to them, why they have proposed a campaign in which they want to reach these young people in the "New Courtyards, or Playgrounds", that is, in social networks.