VIET SDB WEBSITE IN VIETNAMESE AND
ENGLISH
SAN FRANCISCO: 23rd August -- The combined effort
of several US-Vietnamese Salesians, the new www.boscoviet.org website is an example of the
web at its best, reaching across whatever frontiers human beings like to erect
and maintain. Vietnamese who have migrated to the US or who work there for
some time (and for that matter the story is similar in Australia), have
been a richly productive source of vocations for the local Church and the
Salesians in particular. While the site is largely and understandably in
Vietnamese, it can also be followed in English, as a recognition partly of its
present location, but also, one supposes, of another reality now - many of thsoe
who migrated in the immediate post '75 era have given rise to a whole new
generation of Viet-Amercian/Australian/Canadian.....Salesians.
Meanwhile in Australia, Vietnamese Salesians (SDB
and FMA) are particularly prominent both in direct Salesian work for young
people (in schools, parishes and Youth Centres) but also in the public eye as
they bring their special talents to bear on the needs of the young, and of the
Vietnamese community generally. There is the art exhibitions of Sr.
Marguerite Nguyen (Broadmeadows, Vic), for example, exquisite paintings which
raise money for women for poor women and street kids back in Vietnam.
There is the Monthly Vietnamese Magazine Dan Chua, edited and produced by Fr.
Anthony Quang, Rector at Brunswick (Vic), and the work of Fr. Joseph Binh, who
contributes both to the school at Ferntree Gully (Vic), as a music teacher
- of any instrument you care to mention - and as a prominent
Counsellor and radio personality for the Vienamese community, from Centacare
(Footscray, Vic).
