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By Fr. Alfred Maravilla SDB General Councillor for Missions 'Development' is a term that has several implications. NGOs, foundations, and countless organizations are involved in development projects. Development models that are mere...

By Fr. Alfred Maravilla SDB General Councillor for Missions RMG, 14 February 2024 -- Indigenous people represent about 5% of the world's population. The 2014 UN report states that 70% of the world’s indigenous peoples live in Asia...

By the Missions Sector team Give Thanks: We give thanks to God for the gift of missionary vocation, which enables the sons of Don Bosco today to reach out to poor and abandoned youth in 136 countries. Rethink: This is an opportune occasion ...

By Fr. Joseph Phuoc Valdocco, 15 June 2024 -- On June 12, 2024, the Rector Major appointed Fr. Marcello Baek SDB as the new Provincial of Korea for the next six years (2024-2030). Fr. Marcello Baek (born in 1964) joined the Salesian Congreg...

By Fr. Joseph Phuoc, SDB Valdocco, 23 December 2023 -- On December 15, 2023, the Rector Major, Rev. Angel Fernandez Artime, appointed Fr. Hamasaki Atsushi Francis as the Provincial of the Salesian Province of Japan for the next years (2024-...

By Salesian Youth Ministry Sector Valdocco, Italy, 18 May 2023 -- During this 'Vocation' month of May each Salesian province holds a large variety of vocation events - Come and See opportunities, Vocation exhibitions, Open doors in ...

Missionary message for the 11th of the Month - December 2022 By Fr. Alfred Maravilla SDB General Councillor for Missions RMG, 13 December 2022 -- Inspired by the goodness, zeal, and optimistic humanism of St. Francis de Sales, Don Bosco cho...

Missionary message for the 11th of the Month - April 2023 By Fr. Alfred Maravilla SDB General Councillor for Missions RMG 10 April 2023 -- During this Easter week Fr. Alfred Maravilla underlines the urgency and importance of mission ad gent...

EN: Bozzolo_Childhood.pdf FR: Bozzolo_Reve.pdf UPS, Rome, 14 September 2023 -- The theme for Strenna 2024 “The Dream that makes you dream”: A heart that transforms ‘wolves’ into ‘lambs’, has been announce...

By SDB Missions Sector RMG, 27 January 2023 -- The SDB 'Missions Sector' launched its 'Salesian Mission Day' as it traditionally does on the Feast of St Francis de Sales (24 January) with the theme: 'Care of Creation - O...