Ubeda, Spain - April 2016 - On 17 April, over 900 people participated in the first Boscocarrera Solidaria organized by the Salesian College of Santo Domingo Savio in Ubeda. All proceeds were earmarked for the project "Help the Syrian people accommodated in the Salesian centres in Aleppo, Damascus and Kafroun," as well as the campaign "Let us unite for Children's Rights" run by the NGO Solidaridad Don Bosco.

(ANS - Madrid) - The Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, has arrived in Spain. His visit was much awaited and desired. He is at home, among his own people. It is a way for him to get back to his roots, to give thanks and continue to affirm that the mission of the Salesians is to be with young people. "We have a duty to offer opportunities to this generation of young people."

(ANS - Aleppo) – Like a pendulum that swings between violence and desolation – that is the situation in Aleppo, the city that has become symbol of the war in Syria. There are periods of fragile truce, - that serve  more than anything else to calculate the damage and the victims, and work out new survival strategies - alternating with explosive outbreaks of violence. "There was a stronger attack than usual in the last 72 hours ... so far there have been 1300 strikes on all parts of the city - missiles, bombs and rockets ... they came back to bomb again and again, worse than before. There are many dead and wounded, according to Fr Georges Fattal, the Salesian Rector in the city.