Calcutta, India - December 2020 - On 26 December Msgr. Vincent Aind, Bishop of the Diocese of Bagdogra, ordained the Salesian Deonis Minj a priest, in the presence of Fr Joseph Pauria, Provincial of the Calcutta Province (INC).

Cartagena, Spain - December 2020 - Since November over thirty selected students, unemployed workers, have begun the new vocational training courses of the Regional Employment and Training Service that the educational center has been carrying out for several years at the Salesian house in Cartagena. The Mechanical Manufacturing and Water Treatment Operations courses are totally free as they are subsidized by the Autonomous Community of the Murcia Region and the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security, and co-financed by the European Social Fund. The courses take place in the afternoon and will end next May.

Vientiane, Laos - December 2020 - The Salesian community of Vientiane brings its help to people in need every Christmas. On 24 December Fr Paul Trung, together with the students of the “Don Bosco Vocation Training Center”, brought various gifts to the poor people who live in the waste dump on the city's outskirts, sharing the joy of Christmas with them.