The environment is everything that surrounds us and on which our human life depends, such as the earth and all that it contains, water, air, sun, plants, sea. Health is equals "life", if any of the deficiencies mentioned above is degraded, there is an impact on health. For example, air pollution causes breathing problems, coughing discomfort, colds, asthma. Contaminated water causes many diseases ...

Of course, holiness is a unique call that God calls individuals, but it is not easy and it does not come automatically. There are many different life choices that can be made to respond to this call to holiness, but some way is needed to identify them. Catechesis on attentive listening to the call, with Fr. Wagner Randriamampandry.

Bovine epidemic: The dairy industry in the Vakinankaratra region has been affected again since the end of October and continued until November. Bovine epidemics have become so widespread that farmed cattle and dairy cows have been affected.

Today we have only selected four major threats; if we don't encourage and support each other, they will all lead to disease and even death: air pollution, the covid-19 epidemic, water shortages almost everywhere in regions of Madagascar, and the fourth is extreme poverty.

Message from the Bishops at the end of the Pilgrimage

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, You who have come in such large numbers to take part in this national pilgrimage, as well as all of you who are following it from home through the media. We, the bishops of Madagascar, would like to express our deep gratitude to you for having responded to our invitation and for having brought this jubilee initiated by Pope Francis to life spiritually. With you, we take up Mary's song: ‘My soul exalts the Lord’ and we repeat with her: ‘What shall I repay the Lord for all the good he has done me?’....

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Love and Salvation

Christmas is a great joy, because it is the love of God that has come to us, proclaims Fr. Bizimana Innocent, Provincial Superior of the Salesians Don Bosco of Madagascar and Mauritius, presenting his Christmas greetings. Salvation is accomplished, so life is not in danger of disappearing. It is this love and this salvation that we wish to fill our life so that we have peace.

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Zatti, our brother

The short film "Zatti, our brother" (Argentina, 2020) focuses on one of the most difficult episodes of his life. We are in Viedma, in 1941: at the age of 60, Zatti is forced to leave the hospital he has attended for decades. His faith and strength are tested.

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