austraLasia #2640 Ever faithful to Don Bosco - Mongolia's press and translation
efforts
DARKHAN: 11 May 2010 -- Reminiscent of our Father and
Founder's own initial efforts to influence the culture of his day,
confreres in Mongolia are following suit by developing a printing and
translation office.
The location is the Don Bosco Parish in Darkhan, in
Mongolia's north near the Russian border. Materials - text and
images - are largely drawn from originals produced in Korea, and they
are mostly catechetical in nature, though also have the intention of
spreading information about Don Bosco and other saints. Earlier this
year (February, as reported in austraLasia
#2593) the first substantial work on Salesianity was published,
Teresio Bosco's 'Don Bosco'. Publishers have given Fr Simon Lee
permission to reproduce material of this kind.
The Press at the moment is modest: a few small
printing machines, binder, cutter, and of course photocopiers and
computers, but the hope is it will grow.
Staff, under the direction of Fr Simon Lee, are young men and women
from Mongolia. Some are teachers of English in the university in the
city, or university students taking courses in English or Korean.
The parish community comprises Fr Andrew Tin from
Vietnam, Fr Simon Lee from Korea, Fr Paul Leung from China and Bro
Kristoff Gniazdowski from Poland. The parish is also fortunate to have
the Missionary Sisters of Charity. _________________ AustraLasia is an
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service
for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions
as an
agency for ANS based in
Rome.
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