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By Fr Gaudencio Carandang, Jr, SDB Tondo Manila, the Philippines, 2 February 2019 -- The annual St John Bosco fiesta is one of the most-awaited events in the district of Tondo, Philippines. The Alayaw Festival has become popular, “Alay Saya...

By Mr. Jonas Rivera Bacolor, Pampanga, the Philippines, February 9, 2019 ----------- Two hundred and forty-eight members of the Salesian Family, came together to celebrate the first Salesian Family Day for 2019 at Don Bosco Academy (DBA), B...

FIN Synodo 2 By Fr. Drans Nolasco, SDB Paranaque City, the Philippines, 18 May 2019 -- The Salesians of the Philippines North Province (FIN) and young people from the different Salesian parishes, youth centers, and oratories gathered on 18 ...

Manique, Portugal - June 2019 On June 29, one young Timorese  Salesian,  Cl. Marcel Samora made his perpetual profession. Fr José Aníbal Mendonça, Provincial of Portugal,  received his perpetual vows on behalf of the Rector Major,  in the pr...

By Jonas Rivera Makati City, the Philippines, 29 June2019 -- Representatives of the different branches of the Salesian Family in the Philippines North Province (FIN) attended a Forum on the Spirituality of Stewardship on 29 June 2019 at the...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 --- 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 -- 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...

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...

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 & ...

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...

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...