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The Becchi, Colle Don Bosco, Italy, 14 September 2022 -- The annual Salesian Missionary Expedition is held every last Sunday of September. Since Don Bosco's first Misssionary Send-off to Argentina on November 11, 1875 this year the even...

FMA and VDB sharing World Salesian Family, 7 September 2022 -- More than 12 years ago an annual meeting of the VDB Central (world) council and the FMA Sisters General council was established. This Salesian charismatic exchange at the 't...

Rome, 30 August 2022 -- The people of Timor-Leste rejoiced at the inauguration of Cardinal Virglio do Carmo da Silva, SDB, the first cardinal for the tiny Catholic-majority country. The 54-year-old archbishop of Dili was among 21 new cardin...

World, 29 August 2022 -- More than 20 years after the Beatification of Brother Artemides Zatti (1880, Italy - 1951, Argentina) on 9 October 2022 we will celebrate the Canonization of this first Salesian Brother Saint, as Pope Francis shared...

World, VDB, 10 August 2022 -- One of the largest Secular Institutes of Pontifical Right (since 1978) - Don Bosco Volunteers (VDB - Volontarie di Don Bosco) was founded 105 years ago at Valdocco, Turin - Italy. The VDB and 3 other Secular In...

Valdocco, Italy, 2 August 2022 -- As is the case every year, at the end of July the Successor of Don Bosco presented the Strenna for the following year 2023, to make possible good planning for the next educative and pastoral year 2022-2023,...

Economy Sector, Rome, 23 July 2022 -- On the website of the incoming worldwide 'Salesian Economy Congress', to be held at the UPS (Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, Italy) next September 13-19,2022, the digital clock tells you...

JPIC (Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation) Sector, CSJ, Rome, 21 July 2022 -- Seven years after the Laudato Si Encyclical of Pope Francis on 'Caring for our Common Home', and one year after their 18th General Chapter, the Carit...

By Fr. Sivy Koroth SDB Director Kristu Jyoti Publications Bangalore - India Kristu Jyoti, Bangalore, India, 19 July 2022 -- I am happy to inform you that to commemorate the 400th death anniversary of St. Francis De Sales, the patron of the ...

By Raphael Makoto Yamada VIDES Japan member Rome-Tokyo, 8 July 2022 -- Almost 6 years after the previous VIDES International Congress (Rome, Pisana) in 2016, the 12th VIDES International Congress was held in Rome (Sassone - Carmelo), from 1...