ROME July 21, 2020 (Excerpt) When Zoe, 10, showed up late for summer camp at the Vatican, she did not expect to see Pope Francis there. “I froze because it was a surprise and I had never seen him before. I liked him a lot. I was very happy and I said ‘hello,’” she toldRead more about (The...
Read Full Story(The Times of India) COVID warrior priest dies after contracting virus
July 21, 2020KOLKATA, India July 21, 2020 (Excerpt) Don Bosco priest Joseph Aymanathil, who had been feeding slum kids during the Covid pandemic, succumbed to the virus on Sunday. See the full article here: COVID warrior priest dies after contracting virus Learn more about the work we do in India.
(Crux) Papal aide sees whole drama of trafficking in one Sierra Leone woman
June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 (Excerpt) In his famed poem “Auguries of Innocence,” William Blake spoke of seeing “a world in a grain of sand.” In a sense, that’s what Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny sees in the death of a 23-year-old woman from AIDS in Sierra Leone last week – both the tragedy, but...
(Asia News) Salesians and volunteers at the Don Bosco Technical School in Phnom Penh
June 1, 2020PHNOM PENH, Cambodia June 1, 2020 (Excerpt) As one Cambodia’s foremost professional schools, the Don Bosco Technical School has been recognised by the government as a model educational facility. With branches in Sianoukville, Poipet, and Battambang, the school provides thousands of young people...
(The Union Journal) The curse of the witch children
May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 (Excerpt) They play, run, jump, play, get on the swings and do stunts on each railing they find in their path. Like any other child his age. Are the children sorcier or sorcerer children who reside in the Don Bosco home of the Salesian Missions of Togo and, although now they canRead...
(Catholic News Agency) Salesians in Bogota aid poor families hard hit by COVID lockdown
May 28, 2020BOGOTA, Colombia May 28, 2020 (Excerpt) Salesian ministries in Bogota, Colombia, have joined forces to feed the families of the children and young people they serve at the Saint Francis de Sales Oratory youth center, which they run in the poor, crime ridden Las Cruces neighborhood. See the full...
(Vatican News) Pope grateful to Salesians for formation received as boy
May 25, 2020ROME May 25, 2020 (Excerpt) Perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the Jesuit Pope also has Salesian roots. Pope Francis hinted at this on Sunday, May 24, the feast of Mary Help of Christians, which is an important Salesian feast. “Today, on the day of Mary Help of Christians, I address an...
(Catholic San Francisco/Catholic News Agency) First bishop known to die of coronavirus was missionary in Ethiopia
March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 (Excerpt) The Italian bishop of a missionary region of Ethiopia is the first Catholic bishop known to have died of the global coronavirus pandemic. He died March 25. Bishop Angelo Moreschi, 67, was the leader of Ethiopia’s Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella, a missionary region of...