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On the Eve of the Canonization - SF Audience with Pope Francis World - Vatican, 9 October 2022 -- October 8 marked a great day in the history of the whole Salesian Family. Pope Francis gave a special Audience to the 600 Salesian Brothers ga...

What it is to be a new missionary in Siberia Yakutsk - Aldan SDB community, Russian Federation (Sakha autonomous republic), 1 October 2022 -- The 30-year-old Salesian presence in Siberia (Russian Federation) of Yakutsk (major city) and Alda...

Valdocco, Turin, 27 September 2022 -- After 24 years, this time at Valdocco in Turin, the International Salesian Social Works Congress opens on 28 September involving some 300 Salesians, lay mission partners and experts in this important Sa...

Rome 28 September 2022 -- Cl. BOONMEE CHARUSAKON is the first Thai Salesian missionary. Last Sept 25 he received his missionary cross at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, Valdocco. He will now study English for 1 year and then procee...

153rd Missionary Expedition: interview Guatemala/Colle Don Bosco, 20 September 2022 -- Hi! My name is Cristian Adolfo López de León, I´m 29 years old, a Salesian missionary from a small country in Central America called ...

The Becchi, Colle Don Bosco, Italy, 14 September 2022 -- The annual Salesian Missionary Expedition is held every last Sunday of September. Since Don Bosco's first Misssionary Send-off to Argentina on November 11, 1875 this year the even...

FMA and VDB sharing World Salesian Family, 7 September 2022 -- More than 12 years ago an annual meeting of the VDB Central (world) council and the FMA Sisters General council was established. This Salesian charismatic exchange at the 't...

Rome, 30 August 2022 -- The people of Timor-Leste rejoiced at the inauguration of Cardinal Virglio do Carmo da Silva, SDB, the first cardinal for the tiny Catholic-majority country. The 54-year-old archbishop of Dili was among 21 new cardin...

World, 29 August 2022 -- More than 20 years after the Beatification of Brother Artemides Zatti (1880, Italy - 1951, Argentina) on 9 October 2022 we will celebrate the Canonization of this first Salesian Brother Saint, as Pope Francis shared...

World, VDB, 10 August 2022 -- One of the largest Secular Institutes of Pontifical Right (since 1978) - Don Bosco Volunteers (VDB - Volontarie di Don Bosco) was founded 105 years ago at Valdocco, Turin - Italy. The VDB and 3 other Secular In...