(ANS – Turin) – This weekend in Turin there will be events featuring solidarity, personal commitment and attention to the most needy. These are initiatives which will recall Don Bosco's yearning for the least and still alive in the hearts of the young, lay and religious. TV transmission of the 143rd Salesian Missionary Expedition.

Late this afternoon, at 5 pm, in the Red Hall in Turin's City Hall, there will be a meeting on the topic of International Volunteers. “Together” is the theme of this event promoted by the International Volunteers for Development (VIS) to celebrate 25 years of work by the Salesian NGO which came into existence in Turin on 3 March 1986. Contributing will be the Salesian Rector Major, Fr Pascual Chávez Villanueva, Carola Carazzone, President VIS, Piero Fassino, Mayor of Turin, Carlo Romeo, Social Secretary, RAI, Fr Stefano Martoglio, Salesian Provincial for Piedmont, Val d’Aosta and Lithuania, Giovanni Maria Ferraris, President del the City Council. Alberto Chiara, journalist from Famiglia Cristiana , a well known Catholic weekly in Italy, will moderate the occasion.

On Saturday 29 September, at Colle Don Bosco, Harambée, an event promoted by VIS and the Salesian Mission Animation team will get underway. Young people involved in the mission area and those who got involved over Summer in soldarity projects in various parts of the world will come together with the new missionaries to exchange personal experiences, pray and reflect together. The gathering, as with earlier ones, will conclude on Sunday morning in Valdocco with a meeting of young people with the Rector Major and the celebration of the missionary send-off for new missionaries.

On Sunday, 30 September, from the Mary Help of Christians Basilica at Valdocco, Turin, the 143rd Salesian Missionary Expedition send-off takes place. This year 45 Salesians, 15 Salesian Sisters, and 11 lay volunteers will receive the missionary Cross: 5 Italian and 3 Polish lay volunteers are amongst this group.

It will be possible to follow the event – thanks to Missioni Don Bosco – in streaming at 11:55 (GMT+2) and by delayed transmission on satellite on Telepace at 21:00 (GMT+2) Sunday 30 September.

Published on 28/09/2012