(ANS - Palermo) - The seminar on the Salesian youth center oratory in Italy, entitled "Valdocco today: which oratory for the Third Millennium?", took place in Palermo from 12 to 14 November. Organized by the Salesian national office for parishes and oratories, the seminar left a handout to all participants: seven key words that must then be translated into concrete measures in the individual Salesian Provinces. These are the terms: relationship, co-responsibility, discernment, home, mission, accompaniment and synodality.

(ANS – Hong Kong) – The delegates of the Commission on Formation and the Commission on Social Communications of the East Asia-Oceania Region were gathered in the Salesian Missionary House in Hong Kong for a four-day meeting, November 15-18. Fr Ivo Coelho, SDB, the General Councilor for Formation, and Fr Filiberto Gonzalez Plasencia, SDB, the General Councilor for Social Communications, along with Fr Václav Klement, SDB, the EAO Regional Councillor, were present to accompany members during these four days of fraternal sharing and dialogue in making the collaboration between the two commissions in the EAO Region stronger and more effective.

(ANS – Shillong) – The regional meeting of the delegates for Youth Ministry and Missionary Animation of South Asia, animated by the Youth Ministry and Mission Departments from Rome, took place at the Don Bosco Provincial House in Shillong from 3 to 6 November 2019.

(ANS - Rome) – Taking place last October 30, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CDI), in the Aula Magna of the Generalate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Lasallians) in Rome, was the event: "Child Protection and prevention of all forms of violence". The Salesians also participated, invited for their specific and solid missionary work with vulnerable and at-risk youth in over 130 countries.

(ANS - Rome) - The Vocational Training Center (CFP) of the Salesian institute "Teresa Gerini" has launched an original initiative to numerous local companies and entrepreneurs and, last October, opened the doors to them to promote a renewed learning system for young people and companies.

(ANS – Jakarta) – In the week of 8-13 October 2019, Jakarta was the venue for the third meeting of Country representatives of the Don Bosco TVET Centers in ASEAN. Four days were spent sharing experiences and preparing the third quarterly reports that will lead to the end-of-the-year report and evaluation of the project, funded through the Don Bosco Mondo Foundation of Germany.

(ANS – Monrovia) – On the 23 October 2019, Fr Sony Pottenplackal, Principal of the “Don Bosco Technical High School” in Monrovia, represented Don Bosco institutions as a panellist at the “Education Conference” in Liberia organised by “Youth Coalition for Education in Liberia” (YOCEL) in collaboration with “USAID” and the Ministry of Education. The Conference was dubbed “More4Education”.

(ANS – Helsinki) – Don Bosco International and other Salesian partners joined the 4th European Vocational Skills Week which took place in Helsinki, Finland, from October 14 to 18. This edition saw hundreds of participants from many European countries, all supporting the further development of Vocational Education and Training in this continent. Salesians have been working in VET since their origins with Don Bosco in Turin in the 19th century, and they are now present with VET centers in 13 European countries.

(ANS - Rome) - Being "good news press" so as to continue promoting freedom and respect for the essential values ​​of life, family and education; with this purpose, the Past Pupils of Don Bosco begin the celebrations for the centenary of the magazine "Voci Fraterne". Published for the first time in June 1920, the magazine is the official journal of the Italian Federation of Past Pupils of Don Bosco, and over the years has become increasingly a tool to spread not only news related to activities in local centers from across the peninsula, but above all, a vehicle to provide society with all those ideas for ongoing formation so beloved by Don Bosco and recommended to his children who have worked over the years as "good Christians and upright citizens".