There's a limit to the use of intelligence: if it's used more than it should be, it disrupts mental health. Mental health can be defined as: having a mind capable of expressing and performing skills, coping with life's normal difficulties, being productive at work and living and being at peace in the community. Mental health depends on the world around people: work, community, lifestyle, general health. Hygiene and health" program with Radio Don Bosco.

Urinary tract infections are diseases of a person's filtering and collecting organs, and of the channel that releases urine. A healthy person should feel no pain or itching when urinating. These diseases can affect the kidney and the tubes that connect this organ to the urinary tract. Women are the most affected by these diseases because the urinary tract and vagina, as well as the body cavity, are too close to each other... Hygiene and health" program with Radio Don Bosco.

Vitiligo is treated by a dermatologist. 2% of people worldwide are affected by this disease. Vitiligo" is a skin disease characterized by white patches caused by the destruction of "melanocyte" cells, the skin's pigment, and is not contagious. How it manifests: there are areas where the skin becomes lighter and slightly itchy. Types of vitiligo: active, stable, segmental... "Health and Hygiene" program in collaboration with Radio Don Bosco.

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...

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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