(ANS – Fort-Liberté) – Don Bosco Prep of Ramsey, N.J., sponsored trips to Haiti over the mid-February winter break for seniors involved in the school’s youth ministry program to assist the poor in those countries. They performed corporal and spiritual acts of mercy for the people they met on their visits.

(ANS - Brussels) - The situation of migrants in the United States is difficult. Even more dramatic is that of "young undocumented migrants, who once they leave the school are entering the adult world without rights, and without a document to prove their identity." So said Ángel Gudiña, Executive Secretary of Don Bosco International, during the launch at the European Parliament of the book "Lives in Limbo" by Professor Roberto G. Gonzales of Harvard University, on the topic of young undocumented migrants.

Rome, Italy - March 2016 - On 11 March 2016 President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, conferred the honour of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on Sister Laura Girotto, a missionary of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. The honour was granted in recognition of the tireless and courageous work done by her and by the FMA in the Kidane Merhret Integrated Project in Adwa in Ethiopia. Through this project the Sisters cares for the most needy primarily in education and health, especially for women and children.