【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2022 年3月 15 日羅馬慈幼總部訊】 ─ 經常收看慈幼通訊社訊息的讀者，也許已經收到這項通知：數天前在通訊社首頁，螢幕右邊出現一個藍色方格，內有一個新標誌，把通訊社既有標誌的元素，以新的角度展示出來。事實上，這個標誌的背後，正是代表著「慈幼通訊社影像新聞」服務。
「慈幼通訊社影像新聞」是新設的月刊新聞，以電視新聞報導形式，回顧在修會及慈幼家庭發生的重要事件，向讀者以及瀏覽者，報導慈幼會的重要新聞。
這項服務在去年開始構思，並在二月底上線，刊登首期「慈幼通訊社影像新聞」，報導一月份慈幼會的重要活動，而報導二月份活動的第二期，則於昨天刊出。
新聞以六種在修會內廣泛使用的語言發佈，報導鮑思高的神子及修女在世界各地有關青年教育、發展、福傳的工作。
通訊社負責人Harris Pakkam神父說：「慈幼通訊社影像新聞的目的，在於向平信徒合作者、慈幼家庭成員及恩人，報導有關慈幼會各會省及世界各地慈幼團體的事件。」
通訊社負責人繼續說：「首兩期已經刊出，這算是個起步：我們的計劃已十分清晰明確，然而我們需要讀者合作，使之能更進一步。因此我們希望讀者提出評語、建議或回應，我們準備隨時作出更新，使能更富吸引力，喚起更多讀者的興趣。」
社會傳播議員Gildasio Mendes神父，也表達了對這新項目的熱誠：「慈幼通訊社影像新聞是傳播部的一項計劃，為了把修會生活內最重要的事件影像化。這提供了新的渠道，在會省及世界層面宣傳修會，同時也有助各會省及整個修會，整理慈幼世界的資訊，以及展示各項富歷史性的事件。還有一點不可忽略的，就是作為在電視及網上，報導慈幼新聞的渠道。因此我藉這個機會，邀請各社會傳播代表及所有社會傳播合作者，在這剛開始的新階段，積極投入以影像方式，記錄會省的重要事件，並以這種新途徑向外宣傳。」
最後總結時，這位傳播議員說：「慈幼通訊社影像新聞，代表著通訊社新開拓的領域。我希望這項服務，漸漸成為各位喜愛鮑思高及慈幼會的人士，一項每月一次不可或缺的約會。」
“ANS News Video”: main news from Salesian world in audiovisual format
(ANS – Rome–RMG, 15 March 2022) – Regular readers of the Agenzia iNfo Salesiana (ANS) will already have noticed: a few days ago, on the website’s homepage, in the right-hand column of the screen, a blue box with a new logo appeared, replicating the essential features of the agency’s logo and placing them in a new dimension. In fact, the logo well represents what’s behind it: the new “ANS News Video” service.
“ANS News Video” is a new monthly news feature that reviews the most important events taking place within the Congregation and the Salesian Family and re-elaborates them in a TV-news-style format, to offer the main Salesian news not only to readers but also to viewers.
Conceived last year, the project went online at the end of February with the first edition of “ANS News Video”, dedicated to the activities of the Salesian month par excellence, that of January, and the second edition, relating to the events of February, was published just yesterday.
It is published in the six most widely spoken languages in the Congregation and reports what the Sons and Daughters of Don Bosco are doing throughout the world for the education, development, and evangelization of young people.
“The purpose of ANS News Video is to get the word out about what is happening in Salesian Provinces and communities to all Salesians around the world, to our lay collaborators, to members of the Salesian Family, to our benefactors,” says Fr Harris Pakkam, the agency’s Director.
“The first two editions already published,” continues the ANS Director, “represent pilot episodes for us: we have a project already defined and clear, but we want to take it forward together with our viewers. This is why we are eager to receive comments, proposals, and feedback and we are ready to innovate and renew it to make this product increasingly appealing and interesting for our audience.”
The General Councilor for Social Communication, Fr Gildasio Mendes, also expressed all his enthusiasm for this novelty: “ANS News Video is a project of the Communication Sector that intends to visually document the most significant events in the life of the Congregation. It offers a new way of promoting institutional communication at the provincial and world level, and it will also be very useful for organizing Salesian information and curating the historical memory of events, in the Provinces and for the whole Congregation. Without forgetting that it will also be used to broadcast Salesian news on television and online channels. I, therefore, take this opportunity to invite all the Delegates of Social Communication and to all the collaborators of the Sector to participate with enthusiasm in this new phase that is beginning, documenting with videos the major Salesian events in their Provinces and sharing them through this new feature.”
Finally, the General Councilor concludes: “ANS News Video represents a new field for the agency to explore. I hope that over time it will become a not-to-missed monthly appointment for anyone who loves Don Bosco and the Salesians.”