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(ANS - Mati) - A young surfer wanders at night on Dahican beach, near Mati, with a torch in his hand and trying to stay unnoticed. He has no bad intentions, quite the opposite: he is there to help make life blossom. He is Winston Plaza, a Salesian past pupil, and if he does this today he owes it to two Salesians.
Mexico – From Canada to Mexico: an apostolic experience ongoing for 25 years with "Chavos Don Bosco"
(ANS - Puebla) - The "Juan Ponce de León" Salesian Institute was where students of the Salesian secondary schools of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada gathered for their experience in Mexico. Every year, a group of young Canadians goes to one of the larger works of the Mexico-México Province (MEM), the "Chavos Don Bosco" project, to offer their time and energy to serve the most needy.
(ANS – Hong Kong) – Salesian Brother Paul (Paolino) LIN Yin-nien passed away at the age of 92 years on 10 March 2020 at 13:30 in the hospital in Shanghai, China, after 70 years of Salesian consecrated life. He was born in Shanghai on 16 July 1928 and made his first profession in Hong Kong on 16 August 1950, and his perpetual profession on 24 January 1958. He spent 37 years in detention (15 years in prison, 22 years in a labour camp) for his Catholic and Salesian fidelity to the Pope as the Vicar of Christ. So many years in prison did not stop him from witnessing, always with a joyful and enthusiastic lifestyle, that Jesus is alive!
(ANS - San José) - "The family is not chosen," wrote Desmond Tutu, "because it is a gift of God for you, as you are for each of its members." In fact, we are all born into a family. Pope Francis has already said so several times: "The family is a precious treasure. It must always be supported and protected." For the Salesians of Don Bosco the family is an essential substance in the formative process and throughout one's lifetime. The Salesian community of the Casa de la Salud, in Costa Rica, in the context of the care and accompaniment of elderly Salesians, received family members of its guests.
(ANS - Aleppo) - Syria is entering its ninth year of war this month, a war that has changed the lives of nearly 20 million people. The bombs no longer fall on the main cities and there are not as many people on the run as before, but one certainly cannot say there is peace and reconstruction has only just begun. The economic interests of the major powers have turned the country into a powder keg and into a crusade against jihadist terrorism, with more than 500,000 dead, more than 1.5 million injured and over 5 million refugees.