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Synod 2018: Dream and Vision for the Church closer to the Young By Our Own Correspondent Vatican City, 28 October 2018 -- The final day in the Synod Hall on October 27 was dedicated to voting on the final document with the necessary 2/3 maj...

By Fr Guido Errico, SDB Rector Valdocco, MHC Community Valdocco, Itlay, 13 March 2019 -- I would like to express my heartfelt commiserations in my own name and in the name of the community of Valdocco, where Fr Benna spent the last two mont...

22nd Salesian Missionary Formation course By Fr. Jaroslav Vracovsky, SDB UPS, Rome, 7 November, 2018 -- The 22nd Salesian Missionary Formation Course has been in progress at the UPS since last September. It ie being conducted in English for...

Working document of 2018 Bishop's Synod By Our Own Correspondent Vatican, 27 June 2018 -- One week after the official publication of the 2018 Synod of Bishops about 'Youth - Faith - Vocation Discernment' Instrumentum Laboris, today was fina...

By Our Own Correspondent Vatican City, 18 October 2019 -- On the Feastday of St. Luke the Evangelist, Pope Francis appointed Fr Lucas Dau Ze Jeimphaung, S.D.B., until now Provincial Councilor and Rector of the Salesian Postnovitiate communi...

By Fr Savio Angelo Sanchez, SDB Istituto Salesiano Pio XI, Rome, 19 September 2019 -- Three years after the joint formation sessions for the Salesian Family Delegates - November 2016 (Korea, Vietnam, Philippines - Cebu) that gathered togeth...

By Fr. Alfred Maravilla, SDB Missions Sector, Rome Yakutsk, Russia, 9 August 2016 -- Upon the invitation of the Province of Slovakia Fr. Guillermo Basañes sent me to visit our Salesian presence in Yakutsk. Salesians from Slovakia arrived th...

By Fr. Dominic Seong, SDB UPS, Rome, 9 June 2017 -- According to the tradition and customs of the Rome-based EAO confreres, the first weekend of June after the arrival of our EAO regional councilor to Rome, most of us who study in the 'eter...

By Bro. Giampietro Pettenon, SDB Missioni Don Bosco Turin, Italy, 14 October 2019 -- Following the mandate of the General Chapter 27, to make the Don Bosco holy places more available for the numerous pilgrims, also the heart of the Valdocco...

Fr. Roberto Bergamaschi, Apostolic Vicariate of AWASA (Ethiopia) By Our Own Correspondent Vatican, 29 june 2016 -- Pope Francis appointed Fr. Roberto Bergamaschi, SDB as Vicar Apostolic of the Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa in Ethiopia and at...