Brazil – Cardinal Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians, visits Cuiabá

(ANS – Cuiabá) – On his penultimate day of visiting the Saint Alponsus ...

RMG – Meeting of the Salesian Cooperators Association World Council and appointment of the World ...

(ANS – Rome) – There was a recent meeting of the Salesian Cooperators Association ...

Brazil – The Rector Major encourages young people to attend the Salesian Missionary Symposium

(ANS – Cuiabá) – On the last day of engagements in the Saint Alphonsus ...

Dominican Republic – A collaboration agreement has been signed between Salesians and INEFI to ...

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2024 - A collaboration agreement was signed between ...

RMG – The Pre-Synodal Commission works on the Salesian Synod of Young People Working Document for ...

(ANS – Rome) – On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Don Bosco's Childhood ...

Madagascar – Presentation of the Rector Major's Strenna 2024 to the staff of the Mary Immaculate ...

Ivato, Madagascar – March 2024 – The Salesian Mary Immaculate Vice-Province of ...

RMG – Salesians of Don Bosco in Europe strengthen socio-emotional wellbeing in their schools

(ANS – Rome) – The Salesian Congregation Youth Ministry Sector will carry out a ...

Nigeria – Vocational retreat for leaders: "Discovering the dream that God has for me"

Akure, Nigeria – March 2024 – The Salesians of the Africa Nigeria Niger Province (ANN), ...

Brazil – Pastoral and social activity by Salesian youth at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in ...

Porto Velho, Brazil – March 2024 - The young people from the Salesian Our Lady of Fatima ...

Italy – Formation and sharing meeting of SDB and FMA novices in Europe

Mornese, Italy – March 2024 – On 14 March, 2024, SDb and FMA novices in Europe met at ...

(ANS - Lisbon) - As happened several times after international trips, on his flight back from Portugal to the Vatican Pope Francis granted a press conference to accredited journalists, answering them various questions. His health, migration, reception in the Church, abuse... so many topics were addressed. But the Pope himself wanted to put the focus back on World Youth Day and what he experienced during these days in Lisbon in the midst of hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world.

(ANS – Lisbon) – Pope Francis left Lisbon with a final appointment, one with the young people whose commitment and effort made World Youth Day possible: "May the service you have given be the first of many waves of goodness."

(ANS - Lisbon) - Pope Francis spoke to more than one and a half million young people gathered in Tejo Park in Lisbon for the final act of World Youth Day 2023. To them, who are the present and the future, he repeats that they must not become discouraged and that they must not fear even when they feel powerless in the face of the world's great issues; on the contrary, "the Church and the world need you like the soil to the land".

(ANS – Lisbon) – Life is about walking onwards and if you fall you need help to get up. It means constant training because nothing in the world is free, except the love of Jesus. This is the mandate that Pope Francis entrusted to the many young people, about one and a half million, who filled the huge Parque Tejo in Lisbon, and who to settle down with mats, sleeping bags, thermal blankets but also tents for the WYD Vigil from late morning, the penultimate act of a week of meetings on Portuguese soil. They arrived in the Campo da Graça after about 8-10 kilometres on foot, peacefully but joyfully invading the streets of the capital.

(ANS - Lisbon) - Pope Francis' programme for the day of 4 August was full of meetings and appointments with various people and realities, culminating in the afternoon Stations of the Cross.

(ANS - Lisbon) - The young people of World Youth Day (WYD) formed an imaginary Calvary climbing up and down from the scaffolding that forms the large stage set up on the Meeting Hill in Lisbon's Edward VII Park. From station to station they carry the cross of Christ aloft. They fall and get up again, as in the building site of life, but they are not alone: Jesus walks with them. This was recalled by Pope Francis, who in his speech urged the 800,000 young people present to say it all: "Jesus walks for me", because "no one has more love than he who gives his life", for his friends and for others.

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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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