DR Congo - Fr Alphonse Owoudou visits the Kalemie community in the Central African Province

Kalemie, DR Congo – March 2024 – As part of the Extraordinary Visitation to the ...

Spain – The Extraordinary Visitation by Fr Fabio Attard to Spain’s St James the Greater Province ...

(ANS – Urnieta) – The Extraordinary Visitation by Fr Fabio Attard to Spain’s St ...

Czech Republic – The 50th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Štěpán Trochta: celebrating the life ...

(ANS - Francova Lhota) – A significant jubilee is being commemorated in 2024: the 50th ...

Italy – Free to choose: Salesians for Social Work also sign the protocol to remove children from ...

(ANS – Rome) – "The protocol signed on 27 March is a sign of fundamental importance ...

Ecuador - Holy Week, time of mission in the Santo Tomás Apóstol Educational Unit

Riobamba, Ecuador – March 2024 - Holy Week, a period of deep spiritual meaning, becomes a ...

Spain – "FISAT Salesianos Social": a new name for the same entity

(ANS – Valencia) – Since the end of March 2024, the "Ángel Tomás ...

Brazil – Pastoral Coordinators participate in the Provincial meeting in Campo Grande

Campo Grande, Brazil – March 2024 - A Meeting of Pastoral Coordinators from the Salesian ...

Nigeria - Donor funding from Salesian Missions provides support for youth hostel

(ANS – Onitsha) - The Salesian Hostel in the Don Bosco community of Onitsha, located in the ...

RMG – Unifying Symbol of Commitment: The Salesian Missionary Volunteering Cross

(ANS - Rome) – In a meaningful step towards fostering unity and dedication among ...

(ANS - Lima) - Giovanni Hurtado lived his childhood in the Magdalena del Mar neighborhood in Lima. The Salesian presence was widespread and had three works, with different activities - school, formation house and parish - and vocations were numerous. Today, at the age of 48, the enthusiasm of this Oratorian past pupil is even more alive and stronger than ever. He learned it from the Salesians and today he says. "I was lucky enough to meet the Salesians in a golden age, when they were always in contact with young people."

Barbacena, Brazil - March 2020 - The community of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus" Novitiate in Barbacena kicked off its activities in 2020 with the "Baldoria Oratory" event. The event was attended by over 300 children, young people and teenagers who, accompanied by novices and some members of the Salesian community, participated in recreational dance, theater and parody contests.

(ANS - Rio Tercero) - Agustín Lobos and Guadalupe Cejas belong to the community of the "Don Bosco" oratory of Santiago del Estero. This year, they have decided to grow in the service, to "leave a footprint" and go in search of a new experience. Volunteering led them to live a busy summer in Rio Tercero, an Argentine city located in the center of the Province of Cordoba.

(ANS - Bari) – This past week, Bari was the center of the Mediterranean: in fact, from 19 to 23 February, it gathered 58 bishops of the 20 Mediterranean churches for the meeting "Mediterranean, frontier of peace." In Bari, the Salesian work "Santissimo Redentore" has been active for over a century, a true educational oasis for youth in the working class district of "Libertà", which hosted one of the participants in the Bishops' meeting, namely Salesian Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, archbishop of Rabat (Morocco).

(ANS - Santiago del Estero) - Argentina is the first missionary land conceived and desired by Don Bosco. On 1 November 1875, Pope Pius IX received the members of the Salesian missionary expedition and blessed them. On November 14, three days after their sending-off celebration in the church of Valdocco, the first Salesian expedition sent and blessed by Don Bosco left the port of Genoa for Buenos Aires. Since then, the Salesians in Argentina have founded cities, hospitals, explored rivers, dug wells, created schools of all kinds and given names to lakes and mountains, but above all, wherever they went, they created Salesian oratories.

(ANS - Rome) - A new Caritas canteen for the poor was inaugurated on Sunday, 2 February, in the "San Giovanni Bosco" parish in the Tuscolano district of Rome. There are already 200 volunteers who have guaranteed their availability to guarantee the service, which will include, in addition to providing meals, medical and nursing consultancy, the possibility of offering showers, distribution of clothing and a dedicated listening center.

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  • Italy – "Labs To Future": the final event of the "Labs To Learn" project in Valdocco

    (ANS – Turin) – The final event of the "Labs to Learn" project was held on Tuesday, 5 March 2024, entitled "Labs To Future: The path – The results – The challenges" . The project was selected by the "Con i Bambini" social enterprise  within the framework of the Foundation for the Fight against Child Educational Poverty and came into being with the intention of combating early school leaving and preventing educational poverty, increasing the number of young people with difficulties who fulfil their school obligation, access higher education and/or job placement, and opening the way for personal growth according to their inclinations and aspirations.

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  • DREAMS THAT KEEP COMING TRUE!

    THE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Card. Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB

    When reflecting on all this, I feel I have a little authority to say: “Dear Don Bosco, your Dream is still VERY ALIVE.”

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