(ANS - Turin) - A traditional, yet profoundly new appointment: this is the semi-annual gathering of the Congregation's General Council, which officially began last Wednesday afternoon, June 1, 2022, and will extend until Tuesday, July 26. What makes this summer plenary session of the General Council special is that it is taking place at the Salesian Motherhouse in Valdocco, due to the ongoing renovations at the Salesian headquarters in Rome.

(ANS – Budapest ) - A solemn Mass took place on Saturday 4 June 2022, at the Salesians Clarisseum (Budapest). The main celebrant was the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime. The blessing and placement of the reliquary of Blessed Stephen Sándor took place at the end of the Mass.

(ANS – Rome) - On 31st May 2022, fr. Alfred Maravilla SDB, General Councilor for Missions, addressed the members of the General Chapter of the Missionaries of Africa who are gathered in their Generalate in Rome starting May 16, 2022. He was invited by the Superior General,  fr. Stanislas Lubungo M.Afr., to speak to the 40 Capitulars on the Relevance and Urgency of Initial Proclamation.

(ANS - Budapest) - The initiatives planned for the placement of the Relics of Blessed Stephen Sándor, Salesian coadjutor martyr (1914-1953), which will take place tomorrow, Saturday, June 4, have begun in Budapest, with the presence of the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime.

(ANS - Rome) - Today, at 5:30 pm, June 3, 2022, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Card. Vicar Angelo De Donatis presides over the Eucharistic Celebration for the 150th anniversary of both the Comboni Missionaries and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.