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MICHELE CAPASSO: "THE SALESIANS ARE THE OPERATIVE ARM OF CHRISTIANITY"
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19 October 2016
(ANS – Rome) – Michele Capasso, engineer-Neapolitan architect, has created over 500 works in various countries around the world. Ing. Capasso was strongly struck by the massacres against innocent victims in the territories marked by the war. It decides to suspend its activity and its professional commitment, first to help the people of the former Yugoslavia and, then, especially to build dialogue and peace. Today the "Mediterranean Prize 2016 – Special Edition for Peace Education" is delivered to the rector major, Don Ángel Fernández Artime.
How is the Fondazione Mediterraneo born?
The Mediterranean Foundation was founded more than 27 years ago, by the initiative of the Presidents of various countries, mainly interested in creating a space of peace, against war and against conflicts. From that moment we have committed ourselves to promoting dialogue through a thousand initiatives involving young people, children, women, migrants and education. Initiatives, these, based on concrete, as our motto reads: "To transform love for power, in the Power of Love".
Who receives this prize?
This award is for the sobriety, for the quality of the work, for the concreteness. The winners receive the prize if they do something for the common good; It was considered, after the Nobel Prize, the most important prize. They have received this award many personalities, in the religious field, Cardinal Etchegaray, Cardinal Martini, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and many others, who have committed themselves to peace.
This award is a special prize. Why?
Every twenty years there must be a special edition of the prize, which foresees a theme not covered by the regulation, for which one chooses and seeks a personality that can prove to be the protagonist of that theme. With great joy and pleasure, finding also the sharing of the Arab and Islamic world, this prize, special Edition for Peace, was attributed to Don Ángel Fernández Artime, for what the Salesians have done in the world.
Why did you choose to give the prize to the rector major?
The Salesians participate in our commitment to peace, for dialogue. The people who work with us have entertained many relationships with the Salesians in the world. In These 27 years we have known the value of the work of the Salesians. Above all, we have enjoyed their humble commitment to young people, to those who need it. We want to follow the identity of doing. We want to be for what we do, not to be for what we say. The Salesians are the operative arm of that Christianity which applies the gospel every day.
THE TOTEM OF PACE SYMBOL OF THE SALESIAN OF DON BOSCO
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19 October 2016
Mario Molinari's "Totem of peace" becomes the symbol of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
The rector major, Don Angel Fernandez Artime, in receiving the work of the sculptor Molinari on the occasion of the "Mediterranean Prize special edition 2016" attributed to him, emphasizes the importance of "positive", of living life with the "colors of hope, of Faith and Joy ".
In front of an audience of over 400 students of the Pontifical Salesian University confirms the topicality of the educational method of Don Bosco especially in the face of the great challenges of today's world.
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INAUGURATION OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017 OF THE PONTIFICIAL SALESIAN UNIVERSITY (UPS)
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19 October 2016
On the occasion of the ceremony of the academic year 2016-2017 of the Pontifical Salesian University, President Capasso was able to inaugurate, with the president of the Senate Pietro Grasso, the 2nd Volume of the "ALBO d'oro" of the Pontifical Salesian University.
Thanks to Don Mauro Mantovani, magnificent rector, to the rector major Don Angel Fernandez Artime and to all the Salesians in the world for their commitment to the education of young people and peace.
Before the ceremony the rector major D. Angel Fernandez Artime celebrated the mass in the Church of St. Mary of Hope.
The President Grasso held the inaugural titled "Educating the Legality and active and responsible citizenship".
MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT CAPASSO AND RECTOR MAJOR OF THE SALESIANS D. ANGEL FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME
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18 October 2016
It was held in Rome at the Salesians' Directorate General, a cordial meeting between the President Capasso - accompanied by Pia Molinari - and the rector major of the Salesians D. Angel Fernández Artime.On this occasion, joint initiatives have been agreed to spread the teaching of Don Bosco and promote the education of young people to peace.
At the meeting he participated by telephone (from Subiaco) sister Maria Pia Giudici (FMA-House of Prayer "San Biagio").
ITALY - THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO AWARDS THE RECTOR MAJOR AND THE RECTOR OF THE UPS
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12 October 2016
(ANS – Roma) On the occasion of the Inauguration of the new academic year of the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS), on Wednesday 19 October, the "Mediterranean 2016 Award - Special Edition for Peace Education", attended by the President of the Senate Pietro Grasso, will be presented to the Rector Major of the Salesians, Don Ángel Fernández Artime, Grand Chancellor of UPS.
Considered one of the most significant on an international level, the prize of the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" has been awarded in previous editions to important personalities such as King Juan Carlos of Spain, King Hussein of Jordan, Presidents Anibal Cavaco Silva and Abu Mazen, Leah Rabin, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, and others.
The motivations communicated by the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Prof. Michele Capasso, who will present the Award, reads:
For the activity in favour of peace and harmony among the peoples of the world, carried out by the Salesian Family, particularly in places where war is raging: here the Salesians are often the only point of reference for men and women of different faiths. The Rector Major Don Ángel Fernández Artime is a true' builder of Peace'; with his role as a Guide and Master of the entire Salesian Family - the Salesians, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and Cooperators - he nurtures and spreads with humility and complicity hope in the young people who have to place themselves towards life as' Hunters of the Positive' and spread the' True'.
It should also be noted that during the Academic Act of 19 October also the Rector of UPS, Prof. Mauro Mantovani, will receive from the Fondazione Mediterraneo, on behalf of the University, the Prize "Bearer of Peace" 2016,"recognition of the role taken on by the entire Salesian Pontifical University for the education of young people in peace and coexistence among different peoples, in the perspective - according to the expressions of Pope Paul VI - of the new'.
In its main headquarters of the "Museum of Peace" in Naples, the Fondazione Mediterraneo has also set up 107 large videowalls through which it tells the history and actions of Salesians around the world.
Finally, it should be noted that the Mediterranean Award - in its "special edition" for the twentieth anniversary - consists of the original work "Totem della Pace" by the sculptor Mario Molinari, from Turin, very much linked to the figure of Don Bosco, a detail that reinforces even more the symbolic meaning of the Prize.
EMMA MARRONE VISITING THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO AND MUSEUM OF PEACE
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10 October 2016
Emma Marrone visited the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace - MAMT with the itineraries dedicated to Pino Daniele and Mario Molinari.
President Capasso donated the volumes "Nostro Mare Nostro" and "Totem della Pace" by Molinari to the singer.
Alessandro Daniele has guided Emma in the path dedicated to his father Pino with images, objects and lots of emotions!
From the great videowalls, the singer has seen in high definition the highlights of her career.
Particular emotion the version of Napul'è is sung by her at the arena of Verona.
FEDERATION ANNA LINDH PARTICIPATES AT THE 21TH MARCH OF PEACE AND FRATERNITY
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09 October 2016
Almost 550 local authorities and associations represented and more than one hundred schools who joined in the March.
Among these, also the "Federazione Anna Lindh Italia": next to the students of Amatrice.
There are 100,000 total participants who have challenged the bad weather. The procession left around 9am in the morning from Perugia, to arrive in the early afternoon at Rocca Maggiore di Assisi.
The members of the Anna Lindh Foundation's Italian Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation (adherents to the Anna Lindh Italia Federation) have affirmed the indispensable values of dialogue and coexistence that must have in young people the main actors, protagonists of our future.
I wish to extend a warm greeting to the organizers and to all participants - wrote Sergio Mattarella in a message - especially to young people who express their hope to see the wars, violence and limitations of human rights canceled in every corner of the world. Peace - continued the Head of State - is an issue that does not only appeal to the heads of nations or restricted ruling classes. The peoples are suffering the consequences of wars. It is from them that a new season of cooperation, sustainable development and mutual respect can come.
THE FEDERATION ANNA LINDH ITALIA WITH THE COAST GUARD, THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NAPLES, THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN SEBASTIANO AND OTHER MEMBERS CELEBRATES THE FEAST OF ST. FRANCISCAN WITH A THOUGHT TO THE MIGRANTS WHO DIED IN THE SEA.
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04 October 2016
On the occasion of the Feast of St. Francis the "Federation Anna Lindh Italy" with the National Corps of Harbour Offices - Coast Guard, the Port Authority of Naples, the Municipality of San Sebastiano al Vesuvius and other members of the Federation celebrated the feast of St. Francis with a thought to migrants dead in the sea.
On this occasion, the urn was blessed with the relics of Migrante Ignoto - kept in the Totem for Peace located in the Piazzale Guardia Costiera del Porto di Napoli - and the Appello peri Migranti was renewed.
The associations interested in helping migrants and members of the Federation have intervened and called for operational policies in the face of an epochal emergency.
SAINT FRANCISCAN FEAST: A PRAYER IN THE ROOM DEDICATED TO DON DIANA
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04 October 2016
Moments of meditation in the room dedicated to Don Peppe Diana on the occasion of the Feast of St. Francis.
INAUGURATED THE PEACE MUSEUM SECTION DEDICATED TO RAFFAELE CAPASSO
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04 October 2016
The section of the Museum of Peace - MAMT dedicated to Raffaele Capasso, mayor of San Sebastiano al Vesuvius for 35 years (until his death) and creator of its reconstruction, after the destruction following the last eruption of Vesuvius on 19 March 1944, was inaugurated.
Among others, the mayor of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio Salvatore Sannino, the councillor Assia Filosa and other citizens of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio were present.
On this occasion, Mayor Filosa wore the first tricolour band of Mayor Capasso, worn at the time of his first installation on 13 June 1054.
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