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By Our Own Correspondent Mindanao, the Philippines, 25 February 2019 -- As the second largest island of the Philippines, Mindanao main island with adjacent islands makes up 97.530 km2 with 25 million people. It is a multi-religion and multi...

ALA_5307 Following Christ in long sickness and suffering By Japan provincial secretary Tokyo, Japan, 30 January 2020 -- Fr. Francis Xavier Higashiki passed away silently in Beppu, Kyushu Island, Japan, on 28 January 2020 after 81 years of l...

ALA_5310 "SIHM: THE LIVING MESSAGE OF THE MISSION OF LOVE AND SERVICE IN THE MIDST OF THE PRESENT WORLD” By SIHM SC Ratchaburi, Thailand, 4 February 2020 -- From 1-5 February 2020, The Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary held t...

By Bro. Dominic Nam, SDB Rome, 15 January 2021 -- We have listened to the stimulating words of the Rector Major and Bishop Olivero Derio on the hope that we are all really in need of. The RM writes in his strenna: “hope is like our bl...

EAO, 28 March 2022 -- In time for the World Water Day celebration on March 22, 2022, the EAO DBGA Eco Team had its first quarter virtual meeting wherein each provincial animator reported on the status of their environmental efforts. Sharing...

By Dcn Donnie Duchin Duya, SDB The author, Reginald L. Reyes, is one of the youth leaders of the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) in the Northern Province of the Salesians in the Philippines (FIN). He is an alumnus of Don Bosco College in Canl...

Chieri, ten years of Don Bosco life By Fr. Eligio Caprioglio, SDB Chieri SDB community rector Chieri, Italy, 22 September 2016 -- Three years after being transferred from Ivrea (former Missionary Aspirantate) to Chieri (city of 35.000 where...

By Bro. Carlo Bacalla Vientiane, Laos, 7 April 2019 -- Since 2004, Don Bosco Youth Vocational Training Centre in Vientiane (DPR Laos) has celebrated the graduation of our Bosconians twice yearly. Already more than 1100 have graduated over t...

ALA_5380 By Fr. IC Jacob & Fr. Nirmal Jamreet Valdocco, Turin, 19 May 2020 -- Fr Joseph Pauria was installed the 17th Provincial Superior of Salesian Province of Kolkata on May 17, 2020 at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians at Val...

By Michael Gartland Clifton Hill, Melbourne, 4 March 2021 -- On Sunday 28 February, celebrations for Don Bosco’s feast day kicked off at St John the Baptist in Clifton Hill, Melbourne. Occurring almost a month after the feast day itse...