Anisakan, Myanmar – May 2020 – On May 24, the 50 years of the Salesian religious life of Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, and Fr Edward Ba Si (Sein Myint), were celebrated with a solemn Eucharist. Cardinal Bo, who was unable to attend Mass due to the pandemic restrictions, sent a message to those…
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(ANS – Vatican City) – On May 16, the first day of the “Laudato Sì Week” wanted by Pope Francis, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced a Special Year dedicated to the Encyclical Laudato Sì, which will run from 24 May 2020 to 24 May 2021. Explaining what the plans will be for this year,…
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(ANS – Sihanoukville) – Sihanoukville is a seaside city in southern Cambodia. It overlooks the Gulf of Siam, which in recent years has seen rapid development, especially thanks to huge Chinese investments, providing a new and overwhelming tourist impulse to the area: hotels, condominiums, restaurants, tourist spots and 70 casinos. But far from redistributing this new…
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(ANS – Vatican City) – On Tuesday, 25 February 2020, the historical Consultors of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints expressed a positive opinion on the Positio super martyrio of the Salesian priest Fr Elia Comini (1910-1944): Positio drawn up after, on February 22, 2019, the same Congregation had granted that this Cause, which started super virtutibus, could indeed be…
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(ANS – Turin) – After the presentations of the General Councilors, the Rector Major took the floor yesterday afternoon, 18 February. For the first time in the Cingregation’s history, the Report was broadcast live via social media, namely on Facebook: a useful communication method to reach many lay people and members of the Salesian Family as…
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