INTERVIEWS
(ANS - Lyon) - Salesians of the "Saint Francis de Sales" Province of France-South Belgium (FRB) have recently launched the "GOFASSS" (Group of Social Action Formation Organism - Grouping of Organizations of Salesian Health Care and Social Action Formation). To explain its meaning and purpose is Mr. Jean-Michel Mari, a member of the board of directors.
(ANS – Monrovia) – Brother Lothar Wagner SDB has been in Liberia for about a year now. In the West African country the 43 year-old Salesian takes care of children and young people who are socially marginalized, such as the homeless “cemetery children” from Monrovia. The young people have to sleep in tombs because they do not have an alternative sleeping place.
(ANS – Kotadeniyawa) – Missionary testimonies are the source of new missionary vocations. This is the experience of many Salesians. And this is also the experience of Faustin Bahati, a Congolese Salesian missionary in Sri Lanka: “When I was a student at the Salesian school, I read the story of the first Salesian missionaries in my country. Their testimonies appealed a lot to me. They have contributed greatly to the evangelization and the social life of my people. I felt inspired. I began to personally discern a missionary vocation in my own heart. I felt deep within me a call to Salesian life and, during my novitiate, I expressed my desire to be a missionary ad gentes, ad vitam”.