Italy - The CGS in Venice for the Cinema Workshop 2014
The Venice Film Workshop 2014, on its initial stages, is organized by the association of Salesian an ...
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Italy - The CGS in Venice for the Cinema Workshop 2014
 The Venice Film Workshop 2014, on its initial stages, is organized by the association of Salesian animation of leisure CGS/CNOS-SFO (Association of Youth Social and Cultural Film Clubs) at the 71th Venice International Film Festival.
About twenty participants, many of them young people of clubs from various regions of Italy, will have the opportunity, during the ten days of the exhibition, not only to participate in the screening of the program, but also to follow directly the work of the judges for the “Magic Lantern Award” (a collateral award recognized by the festival), which for years the National Association of CGS, in collaboration with the Committee for Cinematography of Children, gives to films that are more interesting in terms of education.
Moreover, their work will also consist of writing critical notes and short articles as daily comments that will be published in the 2014 edition of "Fouri dal Coro", the original Venetian online diary at www.sentieridicinema.it, which since 2002 accompanies the internet movie fans through this unique insight of the Festival as seen from the inside, and this year, from a particular youth perspective.
The participation of the members of the CGS at this Venice Festival has always been the culmination of an intensive process of training at the local, regional and national levels.
At the forefront of this is the group from the Marches Region who, through the project "Sentieri di Cinema", supported by the regional administration, integrates local training with interventions at the festivals, exhibits in community halls across the region, cine-forum, courses at schools and the organization of meetings with actors and directors.
Therefore, from August 27 until September 6, we invite you to follow the category: Fouri dal Coro on the pages of the site: www.sentieridicinema.it
link: www.sentieridicinema.it
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Brazil - Salesian schools in Salvador launch internal TV educational network
Inspired by Don Bosco's evangelical forthrightness, the two Salesian colleges in Salvador (Bahia) on ...
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Brazil - Salesian schools in Salvador launch internal TV educational network
 Inspired by Don Bosco's evangelical forthrightness, the two Salesian colleges in Salvador (Bahia) on August 15, during festivities for Don Bosco, launched an educational internal network of TV channels, called "Salé Communications" (Salesian College Salvador) and "SDB News" (Don Bosco College). The names for these educational projects were chosen by the students themselves.
The content concerns educational, cultural, sporting, eco-friendly and pastoral activities, as well as good journalistic content chosen by two press agencies, but involving the youngsters.
As well as the new internal TV, these 'educommunicational' activities in Salvador are already working on video production, radio programmes and coverage of events which are integrated with the educational and pastoral work of the school. “While they are producing they are also analysing, critiquing, feeling the power of decision-making, and making choices. So the product is not the most important thing but the whole construction”, explains Gigliola Sena, in charge of communications for the two schools and coordinator for the projects
The internal TV serves as an important "audiovisual window" for the two schools and their students, teachers, staff, parents and visitors, on average then around two thousand individuals attending the two schools on a daily basis.
You can watch the video of the launch at TV of Nazarethschool.
link: www.salesiano-ba.com.br/video/lancamento-da-tv-educativa-sale-comunicacao
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Quito (Ecuador): 28 Sept - 1 Ott 2014. Delegates CS of both America Regions
Nairobi (Kenya): 16-19 Oct 2014. Delegates CS of Africa & Madaga
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Animation - Letter from Fr Filiberto
Dear friends,
The thought of this month is focused on the Formation regarding Communication and the Synergies with other sectors of the Mission.
In early September, I attended the meeting of those responsible for the formation in the Interamerican Region with Fr Ivo Coelho (Councillor for Formation) and Fr Guillermo Basañes (Councillor for the Missions). The meeting took place in the Province of MEM (Mexico, Mexico) with a large participation of those responsible for Formation in the provinces of the Region and with the Director of the Regional Centre for Ongoing Formation in Quito (CRFP).
The theme of the meeting was "The spiritual accompaniment of the Salesians." The Missions and the Social Communications Sector presented the project of the Rector Major, highlighting specific points of our respective projects. The collaboration among us, the fraternal environment and the exchange of ideas during the presentation of the Rector Major's Project helped clarify doubts and helped also improve the collaboration towards a complete and updated formation of the Salesians and the new vocations.
I invite you all to open yourselves to the synergies and cooperation among the various sectors of your Province. Reflect together on the broad lines of the GC27 and the Project of the Rector Major and plan together its implementation depending on your Province's situation. This will help you make a better discernment of God's will at this historic moment.
We salute all the members of the Communications Sector. Prayers and blessings for everyone in your community, family and in your pastoral and professional work.
Sincerely Yours in Don Bosco: Fr Filiberto
Information: Italy - 'The greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II'
At a high-level meeting of Caritas on the crisis in the Middle East, the Salesian Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis, said that the world is now facing "the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War."
In his speech Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga highlighted the plight of children forced to flee their homes in Syria, those unable to go to school in Gaza, and the Christians of northern Iraq whose homes are marked with the initial of the word "Nazarene" to identify them.
In the face of so much evil, the Cardinal said, "the West is trying to build a military alliance and sending more fighter jets and drones into Syria and Iraq. But violence is never the answer. It will only lead to more useless slaughter, as Pope Benedict XV said in relation to the Great War of 1914-1918. "
"For Caritas the first task is humanitarian. The challenge is enormous," said the Salesian Cardinal, noting the difficulty of dealing with emergencies on numerous fronts while there is a decrease in the available resources. He added: "A number of countries, including those of the United Nations Security Council, are providing weapons and ammunition to support the wars and their consequences. Many of the countries that are reducing their commitment to providing humanitarian aid are among those that provide the greatest number of weapons. It seems that there is not enough money for both, and political agendas are put before people."
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga then highlighted the requirements for a lasting peace in the Middle East: stop sending weapons to countries at war; the end of Israel’s Blockade of the Gaza Strip; Israeli recognition of Palestine and the return of the two countries to the 1967 borders; and a commitment for peace in Iraq and other places at war - peace that cannot be imposed from the outside, but must be cultivated from within.
The Cardinal concluded his speech by inviting everyone to engage in the search for peace also through prayer.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&sotSez=&doc=11358&Lingua=2
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Production: RMG - Belonging more to God, more to the confreres, more to the young
 "Belonging more to God, more to the confreres, more to the young" is the title of the First Letter of the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, that will be published in the Acts of the General Council, No. 419. The text shows the same title as his intervention at the conclusion of the General Chapter 27, because he builds upon it.
Analysing the characterizing moments in the history of the congregation, and before delving into the current one, Fr Fernández Artime shares how he's living the task to which he was called: "From the Faith standpoint, I am abandoning myself to the Lord. Because I know that I am not alone (...) and carrying the young people in my heart."
The Rector Major, reiterating those identified as priorities for action by the GC27, then focusing on the appropriate attitudes in order to be faithful to one’s charismatic identity: "I really believe, Confreres, that the spiritual life must have the first place, a spiritual life that first of all is a search for God in everyday life, in the midst of all we are doing, of all our occupations."
Speaking of community life, Fr Fernández Artime reiterates the importance of striving to achieve "the ‘utopia’ of fraternity according to the Gospel," which is only possible when there are feelings of true love among persons: "The heart needs and demands it. Community life in the future will be fraternal or it will not exist at all This is one of the ingredients that today’s candidates are mostly looking for, and for the most part it is not always something they encounter."
A special focus is dedicated to the option for the young people, especially those most in need, "our masters", as Fr Fernández Artime calls them, according to a famous phrase taken from Don Bosco. Such option on their behalf "needs to become, in an imperative manner, the greatest effort and the distinctive feature of the Congregation in this six-year period;" and the natural and consequent call to poverty is not a "suggestion only for the more sensitive or for those rather more generous but is proposing it as a way of making in our lives a genuine exodus. It ought to be something essential for our being Salesians of Don Bosco".
Noting that "the missionary dimension is part of our identity," the Rector Major also indicates the various geographical areas worthy of attention by the Congregation in the coming years. And before concluding, he invites all the confreres to celebrate the Bicentennial in the society, in the city, with the people of God, but also within the Congregation and the Salesian Family, reviving the gift received.
The full text of the Letter of the Rector Major is available on the website sdb.org.
link: www.sdb.org/en/Documents/Archive_Fernandez/Archivio_Fernandez/Belonging_God_confreres_young_AGC419
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