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Newsletter November 2014

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Newsletter no. 58 November 2014

At a glance

India - Salesian develops first Khasi Bible app for Android devices

India - Salesian develops first Khasi Bible app for Android devices

An Indian Salesian priest pursuing a Master’s in Mass Communication at the University of the Phili ...
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Italy - Conference at UPS: Rethinking Communication: theories, techniques and teaching

Italy - Conference at UPS: Rethinking Communication: theories, techniques and teaching

The Faculty of Social Communication (FSC) of the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) has been in ex ...
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Philippines - Salesians won four Catholic Mass Media Awards and one Special Citation

Philippines - Salesians won four Catholic Mass Media Awards and one Special Citation

This year also the Salesians of the Philippines were well represented among the Catholic Mass Media ...
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RMG - Videos for Salesian Mission Day 2015

RMG - Videos for Salesian Mission Day 2015

Becoming a missionary means being willing to serve the specific needs of the Church. The entire Sale ...
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Meetings

ROME: Pisana 19-22 February 2015, World Advisory Council - Social Communications
ROME: UPS, 17-18 April 2015, SDB-FMA, Study of World Social Communications Day message 2015.
Europe: 23-26 April 2015, Meeting of Salesian Publishers of Europe

   
Animation - Letter from Fr Filiberto

Dear friends,

During the International Congress on Salesian History, held at the Salesianum from the 20th to 23rd of November, we had the launching of the video "Dear Confrere".

This video is a greeting from the Rector Major, sharing information to the Salesians. It will be subtitled in at least twenty different languages with the goal of reaching as many communities and confreres as possible. It will be sent out every four months and placed in the ANSChannel and sdb.org. I invite you to make it known to all the members, especially the elderly and the sick. If there is a need of help for translations into your local languages, the ANS staff will contact you.

Speaking of older people, let me tell you that as I listened to the interesting speeches about the history, pedagogy and spirituality of Don Bosco, I was reminded of a conviction that I had with me for a long time: "Our Salesian seniors are a great resource in communicating together the History." Concretely, I invite you to make them feel indispensable collaborators in the classification of photographs from the past era, encoding always: the event, place, date, the name/s of the persons inside the pictures. In the fourth area of the Six-year Plan of the Social Communications Department, there is a mention of the synergy with the Provincial Secretary and local communities. Let us pay attention to this, because if we do not do this work now, we will be able to do much in the future.

I invite you to continue with the wide-spread information about the celebrations of the Bicentennial. Don Bosco is not to be kept enclosed within the walls of our precences, even in those of the Salesian Family. Don Bosco is to be presented to the whole society, offering the richness of Don Bosco's charism and Mission for the youth.

We are now in the eve of the start of the Year dedicated to the Consecrated Life. A year that touches our life as individual religious, as communities and as pastoral works. The announcement for this Year of the Religious was accompanied by the publication of a letter with the significant title: Rejoice, inviting the consecrated persons to witness prophetically, always and everywhere, the joy of the vocation of following Christ, to "wake up the world", as Pope Francis said. In this sense, "communications" has much to do to spread, in so many ways, the testimonies of our Confreres and of our Communities who are happily engaged in being mystical seekers of God, prophets of fraternity and servants of the young people and the people who are in the peripheries.

As always, the members of the Communication Sector greet you all. Prayers and blessings for you, your team members and your loved ones.

Cordially in Don Bosco,
Fr. Filiberto

Information: RMG - The poster for the 2015 strenna: 200 years later Don Bosco is still with young people
RMG - The poster for the 2015 strenna: 200 years later Don Bosco is still with young people

Today, 11 November, anniversary of Don Bosco’s first missionary expedition, the Department for So ...
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Information: RMG - Don Bosco at Expo Milan 2015
RMG - Don Bosco at Expo Milan 2015

Preparations for Salesian participation in Expo2015 begin today. This is an important undertaking fo ...
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Production: India - Arunachal Pradesh Gets its First Audio Bible - New Testament
India - Arunachal Pradesh Gets its First Audio Bible - New Testament

The teachers and students of Don Bosco School, Doimukh have made the very first audio Bible, compris ...
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Production: RMG - Salesian Historical Research, No. 63
RMG - Salesian Historical Research, No. 63

Issue No. 63 (July-December 2014) of the bimonthly magazine of religious and civil history "Salesian ...
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Preservation: Palestine - Salesian Artistic Centre in support of young people and traditions
Palestine - Salesian Artistic Centre in support of young people and traditions

The Salesian Artistic Centre located at the Infant Jesus community in Bethlehem is an important Sale ...
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Preservation: Argentina - The Museum of Don Bosco, a space for a living encounter
Argentina - The Museum of Don Bosco, a space for a living encounter

"A place where people will get excited, where they can learn more and feel that they belong. It will ...
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