BOGOTA, 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...
Read Full Story(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...
(National Catholic Register/CNA) SOUTH SUDAN: “Even our schools have become refugee camps”
May 5, 2019National Catholic Reporter article about Pope Francis’ call for peace in South Sudan includes interviews with Salesian missionaries working on the front lines of ethnic and religious conflict. WAU, South Sudan (May 5, 2019) Excerpt: “During the crises, it is the Church that people look to for a...
(Catholic News Service) Pope says priests must be “men of joy” and says St. Bosco is “best” example
January 31, 2019VATICAN CITY Jan. 31, 2019 (Excerpt) A priest must be able to see the people around him as his children, as brothers and sisters, and must be willing to risk everything for them out of love, Pope Francis said in his morning homily. In fact, the best example of this kind of priest is St.Read more...
(Crux/Catholic News Agency) The pilot bishop of the South Pacific
January 8, 2019GIZO, Solomon Islands Jan. 8, 2019 Known as the “flying bishop” of Solomon Islands, Bishop Luciano Capelli visits Catholics across dozens of islands by piloting a small airplane he also uses to deliver food and medicine. Capelli, an Italian, was a Salesian missionary in the Philippines for 35...
Salesian Priest Kidnapped in Yemen Details Ordeal in New Rochelle Talk
September 12, 2018NEW ROCHELLE, NY Sept. 12, 2018 (Excerpt) A chaplain to the Missionaries of Charity Sisters in Yemen at that time who was also serving Catholics there on a religious visa, Father Uzhunnalil, now 60, was abducted March 4, 2016, after a group of gunmen barged into the care home for the elderly run by...
(Crux) Preparing for pope, young Chileans say they’re glad he wants their views
January 8, 2018SANTIAGO, CHILE Jan. 8, 2018 (Excerpt) The playground at the Salesian-run school is filled with children in brightly colored swimsuits, laughing and screaming as young Catholic volunteers spray them with water in the 100-degree summer sunshine. The children range in age from 6 to 12. They are...