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By Fr. Bernie Graham, SDB Melbourne, Australia - From 6 to 8 August 2015, about 75 educational leaders from all the Salesian schools in the Province met in Melbourne for their biennial Salesian Educational Leaders Conference. Represented we...

By Fr. Bernie Graham, SDB Apia, Samoa - The annual gathering of the SYM in Samoa is taking place over this special bicentenary weekend at Don Bosco Alafua in Apia, the capital of Samoa. All the Salesians and Salesian Sisters in Samoa have g...

By Fr. John Papworth, SDB Melbourne, Australia - Sunday 16th August, the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of St John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians (SDB), the co-founder of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) and the founder o...

By Fr. Bernie Graham, SDB Apia, Samoa - Today, 16 August 2015, here in Samoa, the Salesian Family, especially the youth gathered for SYM SamBosco, were the first in the world to celebrate Don Bosco’s 200th Birthday! Over the coming hours, t...

By Fr. Shane Reade, SDB Our Don Bosco Bi-centenary celebrations at Sydney, St Marys were very successful and fun weekend event. Celebrations commenced on the Saturday night (August 15) at Penrith local community centre were over 280 people ...

By Fr. Francis J. Moloney, SDB A very new salesian book written by Frank Moloney is just published in HK and being distributed around the region. Here are some presentation lines of the author My dear fellow-Salesians of the EAO and South A...

By Fr. Denis Allen, diocesan priest of Hobart Tasmania, Australia - During an August 27 Dominic College Assembly retired priest of Hobart Archdiocese, former student of the (former) Boys Town (1946-1956) shared with the 900 students and the...

Fruits of the Don Bosco Bicentenary By Mr. Matt Humpreys Sydney, Australia - At St John Bosco Parish in Engadine (Sydney Archdiocese), we began dreaming of ways we can keep young adults connected to the Parish after they had left their seco...

By Fr. Bernie Graham, SDB Melbourne, Australia - The annual Formation Gathering (Quinquennium) for the young Salesians in the Australia-Pacific Province was held from 28 – 31 August in Melbourne. Eight Salesians who are early in their Sales...

By Fr. Václav Klement, SDB Almost 70 years ago (1946) was founded the most southern EAO community in Tasmania Hobart – northern suburb of Glenorchy with the Savio Boys Town. It’s the most remote southern periphery in the Australia-Pacific (...