SDB in News

Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Myanmar is going through one of the most harrowing moments of its history. The people of Burma are deeply saddened. Myanmar needs the attention of the world in order to strengthen its fragile path of democracy": say...

Nyaunglebin, Myanmar -February 28, 2015. Charles Maung Bo, Myanmar’s first Roman Catholic Cardinal, has called on the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) and armed groups to meet for negotiations to end their ongoing armed conflicts. He urged t...

First historical visit of the Rector major in the SOLOMON STAR newspapter (May 5, 2015) "PRIME MINISTER praises the preventive system of Don Bosco"

The photo shows the once clean-shaven priest, now looking weary and tired, with a long beard. TNM Staff| Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:14 Months after he was feared abducted by ISIS or some such terror group in Yemen, a picture of Father Tom...

Vatican City, Vatican - 1 April 2016 - The Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated the Decree on the legal validity of the Diocesan Investigation on the Servant of God Fr Carlo Della Torre SDB, (1900-1982), a missionary in Thailand...

(ANS – Lahore) – Salesians in Lahore at present accompany 450 young people in their educational journey, from elementary to high school and to professional formation. The person in charge of this is Fr. Pietro Zago, an Italian Salesian miss...

Turin Becomes A "Capital of Faith"Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia Speaks on the Holy Shroud, Bicentennial Celebrations for Don Bosco and Pope Francis' Upcoming Visit Rome, March 30, 2015 (Zenit.org) Luca Marcolivio | 472 hits According to Archbi...

ANS - Honiara)  August 13, 2019 Poverty, illiteracy and unemployment characterize families living near the Ranadi dumps, a suburb east of Honiara. The families who live here deal mainly with collecting materials that can be recycled: they d...

By Paul Dobbyn SALESIAN Father Ambrose Pereira has come from the Solomon Islands to pursue social media studies as part of his mission to encourage the islands’ young people. He wants them “to look beyond selfies and reach out to help other...

In an interview Wednesday with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Emeritus Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun accused the Vatican of being naïve in its dialogue with Beijing, saying that the Church is preparing to give away too much....

  “We are called to be saints; that’s not something you have to put off until you’re older but can happen now.” With these words the Archbishop of Perth, Australia, Msgr. Timothy Costelloe, SDB, launched the challenge of holiness to a group ...

From the Cebu newspaper (July 5, 2016)

FIAT E SALESIANI INSIEME PER CREARE LAVORO E DIGNITÀ 07/06/2016 Presentati a Torino i risultati di "TechPro2", il programma per la creazione di figure professionali d’officina altamente specializzate, nato dalla collaborazione tra i Salesian...

CEBU DON BOSCO nips ATENEO Gyle Ventolero’s early goal was all Don Bosco Technology Center (DBTC) needed yesterday to beat fierce rival, the Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu (SHS-AdC), and remain unbeaten in the secondary division of the C...

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Hong Kong: UCAN NEWS 28 July 2017 Chinese propaganda chiefs have ordered mainland journalists not to describe outspoken retired Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun as the "emeritus" bishop of Hong Kong but to instead use the word "former." The new t...

Like St. John Bosco before him,  Francis calls the young to lead a ‘revolution of tenderness’ Don Bosco-Pope Francis 2017.docx Francis-Accompagnamento spirituale.docx This January 31, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. John ...

My greatest joy is to meet God in Khmer people By Fr. Mark Yang, SDB from Cagliero11 for Nobvember Poipet, Cambodia, October 2017 -- I never thought to because I did not feel confident that I could overcome the difficulties I would face in ...