(ANS - Lyon) - A Provincial Chapter is a fixed event that is repeated every three years; but this year’s Chapter of the Province of France and Southern Belgium, produced not only an exciting presentation of the work of the coming years, but also and especially a programme of  commitment for young people. During the Provincial Chapter 40 guidelines were approved that will direct the pastoral work of the Salesians for the coming years.

(ANS - Aleppo) - The situation in Aleppo? ‘Everything here is confusion, death is everywhere, nobody can understand what is happening and we do not know who we can trust. We were preparing with young people a play to celebrate Don Bosco and we had to stop because several of them died during the bombing’. Fr Luciano Buratti, one of the three Salesians who live in the Salesian House in Aleppo, Syria, says this with a broken voice. 

(ANS – Cherrapunjee) – The sacred relics of Don Bosco arrived at the shrine of St John Bosco, Cherrapunjee on 6 March marking the end of a long journey that began in Turin nearly a month ago. The Casket, which contains a life-sized replica of Don Bosco’s body, is referred to as a “relic” because it has concealed within it the actual bones of the right hand of the saint.