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Bishop Van Looy’s powerful Synod plea for service
Bishop Van Looy’s powerful Synod plea for service Another day, another Belgian Synod intervention. Today it’s Bishop Luc Van Looy who makes a powerful plea for charity and service. It is, he says, the way towards hope and credibility. Rome,...Date2015.10.08 Views1556 -
Prayers for the corona virus victims - Our Lady of Lourdes (FABC) Card. Charles Bo, SDB
Matters India Reporter Yangon, Feb 8, 2020: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), appealed to brother bishops of 26 member countries to seek the intercession of Blessed Virgin Mary to st...Date2020.02.10 Views1511 -
Mongolia Catholic 25 and Don Bosco
Mongolia – The Church's 25 years in the country. Contribution and challenges for Salesian presence 14 July 2017 (ANS - Ulaanbaatar) - When Mongolia became a democratic country in the early 1990s, the government requested diplomatic relatio...Date2017.07.15 Views1447 -
Japan-Interview with Fr. Gaetano Compri (65 years in Japan)
From SIR AGENCY (Servizio Informazione Religiosa - Italian Bishops Conference) May 26, 2020 (ANS - Tokyo) - Fr Gaetano Compri, a Salesian missionary, a pupil of Venerable Vincenzo Cimatti, says of his years of mission in Japan: "I learned f...Date2020.05.27 Views1415 -
Card Charles Maung Bo is the new president of Asia’s bishops
He replaces Card Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay (India), who will finish his second term on 31 December. Member of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco, Bo is the first bishop of Lashio and the first Myanmar cardinal in history. Hong ...Date2018.11.21 Views1404 -
4 Teresa nuns killed, 1 Salesian priest missing in Yemen
4 Mother Teresa nuns killed, 1 Indian Salesian priest missing in Yemen New Delhi: Four Missionaries of Charity nuns, one of them from India, were among 16 people gunned down by suspected Islamic fundamentalists in the southern Yemen city of...Date2016.03.05 Views1391 -
538 Youth For Mary - Papua New Guinea (PGS)
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea May 2019 - 538 young people from various parishes, schools and university institutions in Port Moresby gathered in the shrine of Mary Help of Christians from 25 to 26 May for the "Marian Camp", an annual activ...Date2019.06.03 Views1323 -
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Joseph Zen, the Hong Kong cardinal standing up to Beijing
(Jennifer Thompson) He may be a human rights champion but the 84-year-old lives a simple life in a Catholic community — and likes 1970s pop -- Having decided as a young boy to dedicate his life to the Catholic Church, Joseph Zen knew he wou...Date2016.09.09 Views1257 -
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-fai encourages Chinese Catholics to be brave
Vatican official celebrates prayer day for China churchArchbishop Savio Hon Tai-fai encourages Chinese Catholics to be brave and walk the path of truth and charity Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-fai, center, celebrates Mass at St Jude's Church in ...Date2016.05.26 Views1223 -
"I never really thought of becoming a missionary"
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 ...Date2017.11.03 Views1191 -
Don Bosco's Tenderness - Pope Francis
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 ...Date2017.01.31 Views1186 -
Cardinal Zen - on the special list
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...Date2017.07.29 Views1172 -
FIS-Bosconian Footbal Victory
September 10,2015And moreDate2015.09.13 Views1141 -
Cebu - Don Bosco Soccer
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...Date2016.10.13 Views1130 -
ProTech2 - FIAT and SALESIANS 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...Date2016.06.09 Views1126 -
Cebu - Don Bosco Footbal team
From the Cebu newspaper (July 5, 2016)Date2016.07.05 Views1101 -
Australia - Perth: Bishop Tim Costelloe - Youth Holiness
“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 ...Date2017.07.11 Views1058 -
Cardinal Zen warns Vatican: ‘China wants unconditional surrender’
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....Date2015.03.12 Views1048 -
Think of others before ‘selfies’
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...Date2015.03.11 Views997 -
Solomon Islands (PGS) HOniara youth in need
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...Date2019.08.13 Views988