Eye infections occur all year round, but conjunctivitis is more common in the summer months. Hand hygiene is an effective way to prevent the spread of conjunctivitis. Wash your hands with soap and water for 40 seconds, then air-dry. Scabies, bubbles, mycoses, staphylococci: when it's summer, it's both humid and hot, so the bacteria that cause these skin diseases can easily thrive. Preventing these skin diseases means keeping your body clean, washing with soap, drinking water often, wearing light clothes and well-ironed linen...

Older people need us from generation to generation. The behavior and actions of the elderly are lessons for the next generation.
Elders also give maturity to the generation at an early age. Catechesis on community and successive generations, in collaboration with Fr. Rakotondramanana Soloniaina J. Emilien.

January 13, 2024 — Saturday, First Week in Ordinary Time — The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives — Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Marc (Mk 2: 13-17)

PAPRIZ III recorded a positive increase during the last crop year. A product that is driving the growth and development of rice production in Madagascar. Average yields rose by more than 5 tonnes per hectare in the 11 previous regions where the project operates. The number of irrigated plains has been increased by more than 50. Over 37,000 farmers have been trained...

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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