(ANS - Rome) - Two important processes had been entrusted by the 27th General Chapter (GC27) to the Rector Major to his Council. The results of the work done in the last four years of the previous six-year term were presented to the assembly of the GC28 in the form of two important documents approved by the Rector Major and his Council: “Animating & Governing the Community. The Ministry of the Salesian Rector”; “Young Salesians and accompaniment. Orientations and Guidelines.”

(ANS - Rome) - A passion that becomes an instrument of growth, and a path made of trust, which becomes a path of faith and donation: all this is present in the testimony of Chiara, a young volunteer of the Civil Service at the oratory of the work "Pius XI" in Rome.

(ANS – Boston) – The Covid-19 virus has claimed the life of Salesian Bishop Emilio Simeon Allué, emeritus auxiliary bishop of Boston and titular bishop of Croe (an ancient, inactive see in what is now Albania). Bishop Allué died at 9:30 a.m. on April 26 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Boston, where he’d been hospitalized for over a week. He was 85 years old, a professed Salesian of Don Bosco almost 64 years, a priest more than 53 years, and a bishop almost 24 years. He was the first, and so far only, Salesian bishop in the U.S.

(ANS - Rome) - The meeting of the General Council of the Salesian Congregation begins today, Monday 27 April, at 12, Italian time. This is a meeting that presents important innovations: it is, in fact, the first meeting of the General Council elected by the 28th General Chapter - which compared to the previous Council has been renewed by as many as 10 members; and it happens online for the first time - given that several of its members are not physically present in Rome due to the restrictions on movement imposed by the global health situation.

(ANS - Madrid) - The medical emergency generated by Covid-19 has put the world on high alert. Madrid's "Misiones Salesianas" and the Spanish Salesian NGO "Jóvenes y Desarrollo" (JyD) have so far sent more than 200,000 euros to 12 countries in America and Africa to fight the pandemic: Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Togo, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.