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By Our Own Correspondent Suva, Fiji, 1 June 2017 -- Five months after the birth of the Pacific Delegation the dynamic community of Suva Don Bosco becomes the most visible expression of the new frontiers. Six novices, five postnovices, one d...

By Fr. Manuel Pinto, SDB Lospalos, East Timor, 30 May 2017 -- Every year there always a formation gathering of those in initial formation (Pre-Novitiate, Novitiate and Post-Novitiate) during semestral break which last two or three days. Thi...

Extract from the Mortuary Letter for Bro. Edward Kowala, SDB By Fr. Lanfranco Fedrigotti, SDB Hong Kong, 1 June 2017 -- The last words we heard from Br. Edward, before he passed away in Canossa hospital on February 10th, were (spoken in Can...

By Social Communications Office FIS Cebu, the Philippines, 31 May 2017 -- "Our congregation is 163 years old and our very own Philippine South Province is 25 - quite a long stretch of time in between. But through it all, we have our Salesia...

By Don Bosco Mission Bonn / Peter Käser Mandalay, Myanmar, 31 May 2017 -- Maung Zaw Oo knows what it means to be alone. To have no parents who care about one and live in a strange city. He grew seven bus-hours away from Mandalay in the Shan...

By VIE provincial secretary HCM City, Vietnam, 30 May 2017 -- Between 1952 and 1975 some 44 missionaries were sent by the Rector Major of by the Provincial of China to this former Delegation of CIN province. After the revolution and unifica...

Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland – Sunday 28 May 2017 celebrating the feast of the Ascension By Fr. Dominic Binh Nguyen, SDB Tuam, Ireland, 28 May 2017 -- The last Sunday of May was such a blessed and joyful day for the Irish-Malt...

Young Delegation of the Pacific welcomes more EAO missionaries By Cl. Kevin Fiame Sailele, SDB Apia-Alafua, Samoa, 30 May 2017 -- As every year, also in 2017 the tiny islands of Samoa in the center of the Pacific celebrates on June 1st the ...

Fact or Fiction: The truth in the Media By Mrs. Cecilia Amala Port Moresby, PNG, 29 MAy 2017 -- World Communications Day was celebrated on 28th May, 2017, with a thanksgiving Eucharistic celebration at the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians,...

Share the knowledge, experience and life (German Volunteer experience in Timor Leste) By Simon Mühlbauer German Don Bosco Volunteer Fatumaca, Timor Leste, 28 May 2017 -- The time in Timor Leste has been so extraordinary to me that I can har...