Bangalore, India - November 7, 2017 - The General Counselor for Formation, Fr Ivo Coelho, and Fr Silvio Roggia, of the same dicastery, visited the Novitiate of the Bangalore Province (INK), which hosts 19 novices. The community is animated and directed by Fr Thomas Tharayil, teacher, with the support of five confreres. One of the main goals of the visits to initial formation homes is to empower growth in Salesian consecrated identity in its two complementary forms - lay and presbyteral.