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By TLS SocCom Team Fatumaca, Timor Leste, 10 December 2022 -- On 8 December 2022, in celebrating the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, TLS Vice-Province also celebrated the first profession of 22 young men who willingly answered &ldqu...

Mary Help of Christians Vocational Education Training FODE Centre (MHCVETFC) 1st Graduation By Sr. Alice S. Fulgencio, FMA Port Moresby, PNG, 10 December 2022 -- The aphorism “God writes straight with crooked lines” aptly descri...

By Afia Enosa, SDB Suva, Fiji, 9 December 2022 -- History was made when Deacon Peter Nguyen Minh Duc was ordained priest on Sunday, 4 December 2022. He was the first Salesian missionary from Vietnam to be ordained in Fiji and, a week earlie...

By FIS CYM Correspondence Cebu, The Philippines, 9 December 2022 -- Different Salesian Family groups gathered in a day of reflection and fellowship on December 8, 2022 at Don Bosco Technical College, Cebu, for the Salesian Family Advent Rec...

By our own correspondent Don Bosco Cuneo, Italy, 9 December 2022 -- The traditional Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (December 8) marks a special day for the world-wide Salesian Family. 181 years after the Hail Mary said by Don Bo...

By THA SC Bangkok, Thailand, 8 December 2022 -- On 5 December 2022, Bishop Joseph Prathan Sridarunsil, SDB, was the main celebrant in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist on the occasion of 50 years of priestly life of Fr. Francis Cais and...

By our correspondent PGS, 8 Decmber 2022 -- 5 December 2022, liturgical memorial of Blessed Philip Rinaldi, was an important day for the Salesian Family in Melanesia. It marked the profession of the first VDB in Melanesia. Here she shares h...

By Jeanny Ko, ADMA Jakarta-INA Jakarta, Indonesia, 8 December 2022 -- On 3 December, from 9am to 12noon, we gathered in the grounds of the Post-Novitiate seminary in Sunter for our Advent Recollection aptly themed "Begin with Hope," conduct...

By our own correspondent Seoul, Korea, 9 December 2022 -- On November 27, the first week of Advent, the Korean Province of the Salesian Cooperators (Provincial Coordinator Andrea Park Man-shik) held an annual Promises ceremony for their 23 ...

Valdocco, Turin, Italy, 5 Decmber 2022 -- On December 5 the whole Salesian Family around the world gives thanks for Fr Rinaldi and celebrates his liturgical feast. One 100 years after his election as Rector Major (1922) he is not yet suffic...