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China - Vocation Day 2016

Hong Kong, May 7, 2016: The day after the feast of Saint Dominic Savio, the Department for Vocations & Career Guidance of the Province of China, organized the Annual Vocations Day, which was thrown open to all the young people of the Salesian schools. It began with gymnastic exercises highlighting the importance of 3 important elements for the Youth:- "Health, Holiness and Science". This was then followed a theatrical representation of Saint Dominic Savio and sharing of vocation stories by some among the 14 Salesians present on the occasion.  During the Holy mass, Cardinal Joseph Zen  Ze-kiun SDB, stressing the importance of temperance and chastity as vital elements for the young along a return to football as a popular sport. 

Lwena, Angola - May 2016 - Children who attend the Salesian School & Youth centre continue to be educated through recreational and co-curricular activities during the two-week holiday break from the regular schooling. 

(ANS - Guanajuato) – Starting off from Italy, and passing through more than 130 countries over several years, the relics of Don Bosco have now arrived in Leon, Guanajuato, and will remain there. Youth, children and whole families gathered on Sunday 15 May, the feast of Pentecost, to welcome them.

(ANS – Cebu) – What is behind those sweet brown chunks that melt in your mouth? It is said in the world that chocolate is one of those earthly pleasures that never fails in everyday life, but behind this "sweet pleasure" lies a truth little known by lovers of this delicacy:  twenty-first century slavery. Yet there is another way to produce chocolate; this is why the Salesians in Cebu, in the Philippines, have decided to start a project they call "a nursery for cocoa plantations."

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