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By Fr. Vaclav Klement, SDB 10 January 2016 - New Year missionary request letter to the Rector Major is one of the best gifts that any Salesian can offer to the successor of Don Bosco. It's wonderful, that again, one of us is writing to the ...

By Cl. Anthony Pun, SDB Florence, Itlay, 9 January 2016 - The Carmelite saint, St. Teresa of Baby Jesus, is the patroness of the Mission in spite of being a cloistered nun. St. Versiglia built a church in Shiuchow, China named after the Sai...

By Fr. Vaclav Klement, SDB The 2016 is celebrated in the East Asia as the Monkey Year, and in the EAO region as the 110th birthday of the first Salesian presence in Macau with arrival of Fr. Luis Versiglia on Feb 13, 1906. As every New Year...

By Bro. Amilcar D’Silva, SDB Dili, Timor-Leste - On 4 January till 7 January 2016 the Salesians of the Vice-Province Timor-Leste & Indonesia (ITM) held the Provincial Chapter 6 (PC 6) in Don Bosco Comoro – Dili, Timor-Leste. The number ...

By Fr. Thomas Hsueh, SDB Tainan, Taiwan, 6 January 2016 - To celebrate the Epiphany (Revelation of the Lord to the Nations) in any Catholic community is one of the important Feast-days, but in Taiwan where is Catholics are just 0.3-0.4% of ...

By Fr. David Buenaventura, SDB Manila, Philippines, 5 January 2016 - The old man is gone to heaven. The confession box at the back of St. John Bosco Parish (Manila – Makati) will no longer be the same. As is best friend, Mr. Pacheco texted ...

By Cl. Anthony Pun, SDB Turin , Italy, 8 January - At the age of five, Callisto Caravario moved from Courgne, his birthplace, to Turin with his family. When he was seven years old, he studied in a nearby school Raineri. He spent the first t...

By Fr. Egidio Deiana, SDB the rector of Don Bosco's Basilica at Colle Don Bosco Colle Don Bosco - Chieri - Valdocco, Italy - The 2015 crowds of the Don Bosco Bicentenary Pilgrims in the Holy places of Don Bosco in Italy are already over. We...

By Don Bosco Past Pupils of Cuorgné Piedmont, Italy, 5 January 2016 - One of the two Salesian protomartyrs, Saint Callistus Caravario (1903-1930) was born in a small town of Cuorgné near Turin. He lived 21 years in Italy and 6 years in the ...