Yaoundé, Cameroon – January 2025 - As part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Salesian missionary expedition, the Equatorial Tropical Africa Vice-Province (ATE) welcomed Fr Simplice Tchoungang, the first African missionary integrated into the Europe project. After his visit to the Prenovitiate at Ebolowa (Southern Cameroon), Fr Tchoungang arrived at the community of the St Augustine  theologate at Nkol-Afeme where he spoke to Salesian theology students about his missionary experience in Austria, carried out for over ten years with joy and zeal, which are renewed day after day. The Salesian community at the Saint Augustine theologate this year has 61 Salesians from 20 nationalities: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DRC Congo, Spain, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Chad and Togo, three continents (Africa, Europe and Asia) and 11 Provinces and Vice-Provinces of Africa and Madagascar (ANG, ACC, AFC, AFE, AGL, ANN, AON, AOS, ATE, MDG, TZA). At the end of the Eucharist presided over by Fr Tchoungang, words of thanks were addressed by Fr Privat Ignace Fouda, formator of the theologate and Delegate for Missionary Animation of the ATE Vice-Province.