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Fr. Antonio Shirieda RIP (1937-2017) By Mr. Chihiro Okawa, EXDB Tokyo, Japan, 6 October -- Salesian Priest Antonio Takei SHIRIEDA, passed away at Hospital in Tokyo (Meguro Ward) at 1:55 AM on October 6, 2017 due to pneumonia . He was 80 yea...

Interview with Fr. Jozef Toth: Happy dedicated life of a mission founder in Yakutia By Our Own Correspondent Aldan, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russian Federation, 5 October 2017 -- Fr. Jozef Toth (65 years of age, Slovakian-Hungarian family ...

By Cl. John Paolo Romero, SDB and Fr. Donnie Duchin Duya, SDB Makati City, the Philippines, 4 October 2017 -- The Salesian Assembly on Vocation Empowerment or its acronym SAVE succinctly intends to do is to foster a greater consciousness of...

Blessed Albert Marvelli - model for everyday holiness (October 5) By Our Own Correspondent EXDB, 4 October 2017 -- Blessed Albert Marvelli was a young man in love with life, with people and with God, always in the midst of youngsters, the p...

Celebrating the Silver Jubilee in the Periphery (I) - Yakutsk By Our Own Correspondent Yakutsk, Autonomous Republic of Sakcha, Russia Federation, 1 October 2017 -- More than 9000 km from Bratislava (Slovakia) where the Rector Major with the...

Water tanks donated by the Salesian Missions, New Rochelle, USA By Fr. Shoji Mathew, SDB Araimiri, PNG, 30 September 2017 -- Don Bosco Araimiri Secondary School is located in a very remote area, thus is unable to receive most of the basic s...

Building a civilization of love, 50 years after Populorum progressio: guidelines for Catholic educational institutions from the Holy See By Our Own Correspondent Vatican -- On September 25th, the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education ...

Anthony Wale's vocation story By Anthony Wale Honiara, Solomon Islands, 30 September -- My name is Anthony Wale, from Solomon Islands. My first spark of interest of joining the Salesians of Don Bosco was way back in 2003. I was doing my fir...

Golden Jubilee Year of Don Bosco Youth Center - Seoul By Fr. Benedict Kim, SDB Seoul, Korea, 30 September 2017 -- On March 3, 1967 were enrolled free of charge the first 19 trainees to Don Bosco Youth Center, newly established (boarding) Vo...

Fr. John Baptist Zen from CIN By Fr. Ding Cortez, SDB Pampanga, the Philippines, 27 September 2017 -- We thank Fr. John Baptist Zen, SDB (86 years, based in Taiwan - Tainan community, former provincial of China) for visiting our Don Bosco A...