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By Our Own Correspondent In a conversation with educators, Pope Francis criticized the influence of positivism, called for an openness to the transcendent and the poor, and evoked the example of St. John Bosco. “Today there is a tendency to...

SIHM with the RM, Fr. Angel at Valdocco By Sr. Maliwan Paramathawirote, SIHM Superior General Bangkok, Thailand, November 23, 2015 -SIHM (Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) Congregation, present in Thailand and Cambodia give thanks f...

By Fr. Michael Chang, SDB Pisana-Rome, Italy - On November 15-21, at the Salesianum, there will be the Study Days on the Initial Proclamation of Christ in the City, organized by the SDB and FMA Missions Sectors in collaboration with the You...

By Mr. Celestino Yoon, ASC Provincial Coordinator ASC-Korea Seoul, Korea, November 14, 2015 - Korean province of the Salesian Cooperators is probably the most numerous among the EAO provinces (537 members with the Promise), but in the same ...

By Cl. Pedro Nguyen Huu Tien, SDB Bogotá, Colombia, October 29, 2016 - During the pastoral visit of the Rector Major Fr. Ángel Fernandez Artime in Colombia among different events was a perpetual profession of 19 students from the internatio...

First EAO missionary who reached Patagonia By Fr. Brigildo de Deus alias Dydu, SDB Chubut, Argentina, October 29, 2015 - Dear confreres of the EAO region and especially my dearest confrerers of the Viceprovince of St. Callistus Caravario of...

By Fr. Vaclav Klement, SDB Turin, Italy, October 28, 2015 - As the Don Bosco Bicentenary Year draws to the close, we notice the last major event in Turin, Italy: “The 6th International Congress of Salesian Historians” (ACSSA). From October ...

By Fr. Natalino de Jesus, SDB Timorese missionary in Argentina, La Pampa – Victorica, since 2008. La Pampa, Argentina, October17, 2015 - "I came here in order to listen, to observe and to learn" I would like to share with the confreres of T...

By Cl. Anthony Lo Po Tak, SDB Chinese missionary in Ghana. Ashiman, Ghana, October 17, 2015 - There are many ways how to discern the missionary vocation ad gentes of a young Salesian. One of them is to spend one or two years of practical tr...

My present dream is to become like Fr. Cimatti in Africa By Cl. Chihiro Morito, SDB Moshi, Tanzania, October 13, 2015 - It’s a very special story of one Japanese Christian, Salesian and Missionary vocation. Second year postnovice Cleric Chi...