NEWS
(ANS - Rome) – Yet another great Salesian has reached the garden of Heaven: Fr Angelo Botta, a Salesian priest and missionary, who was a Provincial in Ecuador and the Secretary of three Rectors Major, died yesterday, Monday 4 October, in Rome. His funeral will be held on Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 11:00 (UTC + 2) in the Basilica of Sacred Heart in Rome.
(ANS - Rome) - The Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) gathered in Rome to participate in the FMA’s 25th General Chapter have elected Sr. Chiara Cazzuola, currently Vicar General, as Mother General of the Institute. Mother Cazzuola succeeds Mother Yvonne Reungoat, who led the Institute since 2008. Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians, present for the occasion, immediately congratulated the new Mother General.
(ANS - Castelnuovo Don Bosco) - On 1 October 2021, Fr Alfred Maravilla, General Councilor for the Missions, accompanied by Fr George Menamparampil, of the Missions Sector, met with Fr Gianni Rolandi, Rector of Colle Don Bosco, and Mrs. Letizia Pecetto, Don Bosco Ethnological Missionary Museum’s director. It was an opportunity for fraternal and fruitful exchange, to get to know the Museum better by the General Councilor, and in turn, to share the expectations of the Mission Sector on the Missionary Ethnological Museum. Fr Maravilla officially launched the survey organized by the Missions Sector on the Salesian Missionary Museums during this visit.
(ANS - Rome) - On Saturday 2 October, the final online meeting of the "70x7 Young Salesians for the renewal of the Ratio" took place, with some 50 participants from all over the world. Just take a look at the synchronisation of the start of the meeting to realise this: 6:00 Guatemala; 7:00 Mexico City; 9:00 Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Montevideo; 12:00 Accra; 13:00 Dublin, London, Yaoundé; 14: 00 Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Zagreb, Valletta, Kigali, Lubumbashi, Lusaka; 15:00 Nairobi, Antananarivo; 17:30 New Delhi & India, Colombo; Yangon 18:30; Jakarta 19:00; 20:00 Manila, Hong Kong, Taiwan; 21:00 Seoul, Dili; 22:00 Melbourne and finally at 23:59 Fiji Samoa.