Mission News
A Loaves and Fishes Miracle
May 5, 2025
You can perform a modern-day miracle. Just as Jesus transformed two loaves of bread and five fish into enough food to feed thousands of people, our annual Loaves and Fishes appeal multiplies every $1 you give into $14 worth of life-saving supplies. “We’re fortunate to have strong, long-standing...
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A Field of Dreams in Ukraine
May 5, 2025On a crisp day in early 2024, an energetic group of children stood on a deteriorating field adjacent to their Blessed Klymenty and Andrey Sheptytskyi School gymnasium in Lviv, Ukraine*. They eagerly gathered as their beloved Salesian priest approached them carrying a soccer ball. What he was about...
A School Makeover Restores Hope
May 5, 2025A fresh coat of paint – inside and out. Toilets that finally flush properly. Window and door frames free from rot. Cement and plaster pillars without cracks. Recent renovations to the Don Bosco Technical and Vocational Training Center in Makuyu, Kenya are lifting the spirits of students. And you...
Our Clean Water Initiative Saves Precious Lives
March 31, 2025It’s a global crisis. One in 11 people – that’s a total of 703 million worldwide – do not have access to clean water. Adults are getting sick – and children are dying – from preventable diseases simply because they’re consuming contaminated water. Our Clean Water Initiative was...
Press Releases
INDIA: Salesians renovate hostel for youth thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions
May 13, 2025
Mission Hostel provides accommodations for 60 youth. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (May 13, 2025) Salesian missionaries had the funding for renovating the Mission Hostel, located in Gobarhati, Murshidabad, India, thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don...
Read Full StoryGLOBAL: Salesian Missions launches annual ‘Loaves & Fishes’ fundraiser to support global aid shipments
May 8, 2025Fundraising appeal runs through the end of June 2025. NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (May 8, 2025) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, has launched its annual “Loaves and Fishes” fundraiser to raise critical funding to ship life-saving aid to more than 130 countries...
MALAWI: St. Philip Rinaldi Community has clean water access thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions
April 29, 2025Project part of the Salesian Missions ‘Clean Water Initiative’. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (April 29, 2025) Salesian missionaries provided clean water access in the Salesian St. Philip Rinaldi Community, Malawi, thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of...
UKRAINE: Students have new soccer field thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions
April 28, 2025Donation impacts more than 400 students. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (April 28, 2025) Salesian missionaries were able to construct a new soccer field for students at Blessed Klymenty and Andrey Sheptytskyi in Lviv, Ukraine*, thanks to donor funding from Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the...
News Coverage
(OSV) Archbishop encourages hope as death toll in Myanmar surpasses 3,000
April 7, 2025
April 4, 2025 (Excerpt) Burmese Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay said that despite the suffering caused by the deadly earthquake, the people of Myanmar are clinging to hope in God’s mercy. In an interview published April 3 with Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization,...
Read Full Story(National Catholic Reporter/Global Sisters Report) Monday Starter: Salesians mark UN’s World Water Day
March 22, 2025March 22, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesian Missions joined other humanitarian groups on March 22 in marking World Water Day, a United Nations-led commemoration to bring attention to the need for safe, clean water. In an announcement, the Salesians noted that in addition to drawing attention to the...
(Global Sisters Report) Salesians mark International Women’s Day
March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 (Excerpt) Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, was among the church-based groups celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8. The annual international commemoration honors “the economic, political and social achievements of...
(PR Web) Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival to be held in Manhattan for the first time
September 26, 2024NEW YORK, NY Sept. 25, 2024 (Excerpt) Young filmmakers from around the globe will highlight their creativity through original, short films about how to take positive action to combat climate change during the grand finale of the third annual 2024 Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF...
