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Time ago, a group from Ratanakiri province asked Don Bosco to open a youth centre in that northern region of Cambodia, among indigenous communities. With few Salesians, it has been difficult to realize, but Don Bosco never forgets an invitat...

Due to the pandemic, our way of working has changed. In recent months, having online meetings has become common to receive classes, work meetings, friends, and even the Church group or Salesian meetings.  No matter who you meet with, always ...

Phnom Penh --- The birthday of Fr. John Visser every August, is the main point of reference for the Don Bosco past pupils in Cambodia. It is not only because Father John is the current eldest confrere in the Salesian mission of this Southeas...

Sihanoukville -- Sawasdee Foundation, a Dutch humanitarian organisation, has been one of the main supporters of the Salesian projects in Cambodia since the start in the 1990s. During this time of Pandemic, Sawasdee Foundation is not on the l...

Sihanoukville -- The confreres in practical training in Cambodia met this week at Don Bosco Sihanoukville to have the monthly recollection and formation with Fr. Ceferino Ledesma (Fr. Cef) invited by Fr. Roel Soto, superior of the delegation...

Phnom Penh -- Sister Maria Domenica Mazzarello Eng Sarin, a Cambodian member of the Daughters of Mary Help, made her perpetual profession at Don Bosco Teuk Thla School on August 5, 2020 before Bishop Bruno Cosme, Apostolic Prefect of Kompung...

About the 29th anniversary of the arrival of Don Bosco to Cambodia, here some representative photos of this history in preparation to the 30th anniversary for next year: On May 24, 1991, Father Valter Brigolin and Br. Roberto Panetto, Italia...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA --- On Friday, May 24, 1991, Father Valter Brigolin and Brother Roberto Panetto arrived to the then Pochentong Airport, today renamed Phnom Pehn International Airport. It was 5 months before the signature of the Paris Pe...

DON BOSCO SIHANOUKVILLE --- The Technical School and Children Fund Centre of Don Bosco in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, made a simple but meaningful event during the Solemnity of Mary Help of Christians: The blessing of the Gelato Italiano & ...

The Covid-19's pandemic is opening a new era for humanity. It means many challenges and Salesians are on the front-line due to our educational charisma. Quarantine measures obliged to lock down thousands of schools around the world, includin...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia -- While the Salesian GC28 is going on in Turin, thinking of what the youth of today expect from the Salesians, here in Phnom Penh a small group of Salesians and lay-mission partners have gathered to think of how the TVE...

KEP CITY --- CAMBODIA. The experience of sending students of theology to their missionary land during their annual vacations is actually a positive idea with great experiences and help for the local communities. Between December 2019 and Feb...

Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA -- The Cambodia Salesian Family celebrated their annual day at Don Bosco Phnom Penh this Saturday, 18th of January and the occasion of the 50th anniversary of religious life of Br. Roberto Panetto, Italian missionary in ...

Kep City -- Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh, gave the official welcoming to the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart during the Solemnity of Saint Mary of Guadalupe in Kep. "Sisters, we are rather a small Churc...

KOREA-Provincial community day  Discernment about the reshaping of Salesian presences Daejon - Salesian Youth Center September 6-7, 2019 provincial servant leader SDB with all novices, prenovices and aspirants Helipoter show Province wide di...

By Fr Will Matthews, SDB Apia, Samoa, 31 August 2019 -- Archbishop Alapati of Apia led a Eucharist on Saturday 31 August at St John Bosco Parish in Sinamoga to mark the 40th anniversary of the Salesian presence in Samoa. The Eucharist was c...

By Montagn Famdrc Venilale, Timor Leste, 30 June 2019 -- On the thirteenth Sunday of June 30, a Salesian bishop, don Virgílio do Carmo da Silva, sdb came to his hometown where he grew up during his childhood, namely Badomori, to celebrate t...

Seoul - Valdocco June 2019 Six Salesians from Korea during two weeks in June (accompanied by one Korean student-priest at the UPS in Rome)  and joint also by their new provincial. On the foosteps of Don Bosco in Piedmont and Rome as well in ...

By Peter Kamara, 3rd Year Aspirant   Bomana, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 16 Juily 2019 --- During our holidays we were privileged to have a couple with us from Australia, who volunteered to come and help the aspirants in some English re...

By Pius Yawalele, 3rd Year Aspirant Bomana, Port Moresby, Papaua New Guinea, 19 June 2019 -- Savio Haus was privileged to have Mr and Mrs Fred and Norma Gomes during the first semester break. The couple arrived from Australia on 10 June 201...