(ANS - Antananarivo) – As part of his visit to Madagascar the Rector Major Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, spent Friday 1 April with all those who share in the Salesian challenges, dreams, difficulties and spirituality, with those that represent the present and the future of the Congregation, and with the young people who are the reason for our existence, in other words, with the Salesian Family and young people.

(ANS - Bangalore) – On Saturday 2 April, the Indian Foreign Minister, Hon. Sushma Swaraj, received a delegation of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), to update the Bishops on the situation of Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, the Indian Salesian of the Province of Bangalore who was kidnapped on 4 March last during the attack carried out at the House of the Missionaries of Charity in Aden, Yemen. Meanwhile, today, 4 April, exactly one month after the massacre and the abduction, on the initiative of the Salesians and the Archdiocese of Bangalore, a prayer vigil and a Mass for Father Tom are being held at the cathedral. Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore, who will preside over the function, has called on all the faithful to participate.

Recife, Brazil - March 2016 - On 30 March Fr Nivaldo Pessinatti, Provincial of Recife (BRE), presided at the Eucharist for the missionary send-off of the young Salesian practical trainee José Wilker France da Silva.