Estoril, Portugal – April 2024 – 967 young athletes, 115 coaches divided into nine delegations representing the Salesian presences of the Province of Portugal (por), competed from 25 to 28 April in the six sports disciplines planned for the 28th edition of the Salesian National Games. Futsal, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, swimming and chess competitions were held under the Salesian values of friendship, sharing, mutual respect and fairness. In addition to the games, there were dance shows, music with 50 artists involved and moments of prayer. The event was made possible thanks to the work of 279 staff and volunteers, 32 referees, technical teams, families and sponsoring bodies. The National Salesian Games have been held every year in Portugal since 1992 with the aim of bringing together athletes and educational-pastoral communities in a family moment according to the Salesian style of educating and evangelising.

São Leopoldo, Brazil – April 2024 – The 22nd Provincial Chapter of the Salesian Province of Brazil-Porto Alegre (BPA) took place from 23-26 April at the Cristo Re di São Leopoldo Spirituality Centre. An essential event for the BPA Province, which brought together consecrated men and women and lay people committed to the Salesian mission, with the aim of tracing the path of the Salesian presences in the South of Brazil. During the days of the Chapter, participants were guided through moments of prayer, reflection, and deliberation. There was the election of moderators, formation on the topic, the Provincial’s report, collective work on the core areas and the election of the delegate to the GC29, Fr Sérgio Ramos, BPA Vice-Provincial. The culmination of the event was marked by the closing Mass, presided over by Fr Ademir Ricardo, BPA Provincial, and by the Religious Profession of Salesian Kleber Oliveira. The Provincial Chapter officially concluded, leaving the expectation that the decisions taken will contribute to the strengthening of the Salesian presence in the southern region of Brazil and the service to young people.

Panjim, India – April 2024 – Fr Biju Michael, Regional Councillor for South Asia, opened the new provincial house in Panjim-Konkan on 30 April, in the presence of the Salesian Provincials Council of South Asia, Provincial and the Council of Panjim-Konkan, Salesians, benefactors and guests. Also present for the occasion was Fr Felix Fernandes, former Provincial of the Panjim-Konkan Province, who called the new provincial house a true "miracle". "During the design and construction of this house, we have seen the powerful hand of God, since the day we laid the foundation, on the feast of St Francis de Sales in 2020" he added. Fr Clive Telles, Superior of the INP Province then spoke, thanking the Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, for the permission granted to build the new house, and the Regional Councillor, Fr Biju Michael, for blessing and opening it. Finally, a compliment went to Fr Francis Silveira, Provincial Economer, for the hard work done in all phases of construction and construction.

(ANS – Salamanca) – On 13 April, as part of the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Salesian presence in Salamanca, an interesting conference was held on the theme: "The Salesian legacy in Salamanca: a contribution to the 125th anniversary of their presence", given by Fr Joaquín Torres and Miguel Ángel Fernández, both members of the Salesian Delegation of Cultural Heritage in Spain's St James the Greater Province (SSM).

(ANS - La Paz) – Representatives of the six Salesian Universities of Latin America are meeting in La Paz, in the La Paz campus, Bolivia, with the aim of continuing the initiatives contained in the Work Plan agreed upon by the delegates of the Salesian Institutions of Higher Education (IUS), as a result of the joint constructive work that has been carried out for several years.

(ANS – Rome) – With the publication of the 10th volume of the critical edition of Don Bosco's letters (Rome, LAS 2024), the very ambitious project of the Salesian Historical Institute (ISS), launched at its foundation in 1982, has come to an end. Volume 10 collects in the first part the letters from 1887, January 1888 and about eighty letters not included in the previous volumes (as recovered after their printing); the second part consists of the indexing of names of people, places, correspondents, subjects, in order to facilitate searches within volumes that would easily remain dusty on library shelves at a tine like the present, in which history seems to have lost much of its appeal.