NEWS
(ANS – Colombo) – Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst natural disasters in recent decades as days of intense rain, fueled by Cyclone Ditwah, triggered massive floods and landslides across the island. The cyclone pushed unusually heavy rainfall over almost every district, causing major rivers to overflow, hillsides to collapse, and entire towns to go underwater. Across the island, the Salesians of Don Bosco and the wider Salesian Family have mobilized rapidly to respond to the needs of the affected population.
(ANS – Seoul) – The Salesian Missionary Day was grandly held on 23 November 2025, at the Main Auditorium on the 7th floor of the Salesian Provincial House in Singil-dong, Seoul, with the attendance of over 300 members of the Salesian Family. The event, prepared by the Korean Province Mission Commission (Delegator: Fr. Stephan Yu Ji-Hoon), commemorated the 150th anniversary of the first Salesian missionary expedition.
(ANS - Santo Domingo) - The Salesians of Don Bosco celebrated the 5th Salesian Congress of Educomunication, focused on the theme ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Educative and Pastoral Challenge’. The meeting aimed to reflect on the impact of AI in education and communication, identifying opportunities and risks to promote critical, ethical and humanising educational and evangelising action in the digital environment.
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INTERVIEWS
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Italy – In conversation with a Salesian influencer: Fr Eustace Siame(ANS - Rome) - ‘“Go and mend the nets.” Jesus called his first apostles while they were mending their fishing nets (cf. Mt 4:21-22). He asks the same of us today. Indeed, he asks us to weave other nets: networks of relationships, of love, of gratuitous sharing where friendship is profound and authentic; networks where we can mend what has been broken, heal from loneliness, not focus on the number of followers, but experience the greatness of infinite Love in every encounter.’ This was the appeal Pope Leo XIV made to Catholic influencers and digital missionaries last July for the Jubilee dedicated to them. Salesian Fr Eustace Siame is certainly one of them, and today he presents his apostolate to us.
EDITORIAL
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RMG – Don Bosco: “The Fascinating Saint”(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint, history has ever produced. The humble work which he began for the welfare of his poor and abandoned boys in Italy has produced astonishing results, and today there are nearly 14000 Salesians working in 138 countries, and there are more than 200,000 members belonging to the 32 groups of the worldwide Salesian Family sharing the charism of Don Bosco and reaching out to the needy young people.
EVENTS
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South Korea – Catechist Formation, From Theory to Practice: Symposium Held on “The Wise Use of the Guidelines for Catechist Formation”(ANS – Seoul) – A symposium titled “The Wise Use of the Guidelines for Catechist Formation” was successfully held on Saturday, 8 November, at the Salesian Provincial House in Shingil-dong, Seoul, to diagnose the current state and seek the future of catechetical education in the Korean Catholic Church.
SPECIAL REPORTS
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Italy – 150 years since the first mission: the legacy continues(ANS - Turin) - An anniversary bearing the number 150 cannot go unnoticed. Even less so if it corresponds to an anniversary from which substantial changes in a large community and the world around it have come about. For this reason, the 150th anniversary of the first ‘missionary expedition’, which Don Bosco longed for following the ‘dream’ of a mysterious Patagonia, is an event in itself, due to the amount of reflections and appointments it brings.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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From the Pharisee's Table to the Heart of Ministry. Humility and Charity in the Education and Evangelization of Young PeopleTHE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Fabio Attard, SDB
In chapter 14 of St. Luke’s Gospel, we find the account in which Jesus accepts an invitation to dine at the home of an important Pharisee. Jesus enters a space thick with social calculations and feigned religious attitudes wherein the dinner becomes a theater of human ambition, with guests competing for places that reflect their perceived status and importance.