(ANS – Betafo) – In the central part of Madagascar there is Betafo, a town of 30.000 inhabitants, surrounded by hills. This is the see of a mission of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Sr. Teresa Leonik is a Polish missionary who works in Madagascar since 1991. She is the Economer of the community of Betafo and devotes herself to meet all the financial needs of the mission.

(ANS – Parañaque) – Exactly as Guatemala hosts CRESCO, a specific formation house for Salesian lay brothers of Inter-America and America South Cone, in the same way in Parañaque, in the Philippines, there is a community, whose patron is the Hungarian confrère Blessed Stephen Sandor,  and which is active in the formation of the Salesian lay brothers of the South Asia and East Asia – Oceania Regions.

(ANS - Krakow) - On July 27, Pope Francis will land in Krakow for World Youth Day (WYD) 2016. The great event will actually begin a day earlier, on July 26, in the Błonia Park in Kraków, with Mass presided over by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow.