Condoto, Colombia – March 2024 - The celebration of Easter was successfully held from 22 to 31 March 2024 in the San José Parish of Condoto, in the department of Chocó. It was coordinated by the Delegate for Missionary Animation of the Salesian Province of Medellín, Colombia (COM), Fr Hernán Darío Carmona, accompanied by a group of 30 missionaries including Salesians and lay people. The group was split up for pastoral accompaniment at the San José Parish and in the territorial areas of Santa Ana, Viro Viro, Soledad and La Planta. The response of the different communities was very positive and all the celebrations took place around the experience of the Passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, with boys, girls, young people and adults at the forefront in each of the celebratory moments that strengthened the experience of faith.

Santa Clara, Cuba – March 2024 - During the Easter triduum, a group of teenagers and young adults from the Salesian Santa Clara work in Cuba gathered to celebrate Youth Easter 2024. The activity was led by the Salesian Cooperators from the Father José Vandor Local Centre. Every day about 30 teenagers and young adults reflected on the meaning of celebrations, symbols, liturgy and how to live and make the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus real as young Catholics in Cuba. At the end they shared the promise to live the feast of Easter in joy. The activity took place at Nuestra Señora del Carmen Parish, a church run by the Salesians of Don Bosco since the 1950s. It is the oldest church in the city of Santa Clara, built in 1748.

Benicasim, Spain – April 2024 – More than 120 participants of Spain’s Mary Help of Christians Province (SMX), met on 1 April in Benicasim for the second session of the Provincial Chapter. The Assembly, the fourth in the history of the SMX Province, is the continuation of the work begun on 27 December, except that in this session, in addition to the Salesians, there is also a group of invited lay people who are accompanying the process and represent the different sectors in the study and work of the chapter documents. After the opening mass celebrated by Fr Fernando Miranda, SMX Provincial, the moderator of the Provincial Chapter, Fr Miguel Ángel Álvarez Paulino, presented the participants with the GC29 core areas and the dynamics to be followed. The second session will end on 5 April.

Žepče, Croatia – April 2024 – The 19th Provincial Chapter of the Salesian Province of Croatia (CRO) is being celebrated in Žepče on the premises of the Don Bosco Catholic School Centre from 1-4 April. The Chapter is attended by 26 Salesians with the right to vote from all the provincial presences as well as two Salesians without the right to vote (a student from Rome and a priest from one of the four Catholic Missions for Croats in Germany). The current Provincial, Fr Tihomir Šutalo, is presiding at the Chapter, also in the presence of the newly appointed Superior Fr Milan Ivančević who will be installed on 15 June 2024. At the beginning of the work there were greetings from some guests of the Salesian Family online and the mayor and the parish priest of Žepče were physically present to greet the Chapter members.

Chennai, India – April 2024 – The Salesian Province of Tiruchy India (INT), celebrates a double goal this year: the 25th anniversary (1999-2024) and its 9th Provincial Chapter. 69 Salesians, 5 members of the Salesian Family and 3 theology students gathered from 2 to 6 April 2024 at the Salesian Provincial House at Chennai (INM), for an event focused on reflection, discussion and decision. The central theme of the Provincial Chapter is the theme of the next GC29: "PASSIONATE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, DEDICATED TO YOUNG PEOPLE. Living our Salesian vocation faithfully and prophetically.“ The opening Mass was celebrated by Archbishop George Antonysamy, archbishop of Madras - Mylapore, who in the homily underlined the salient aspects of the Salesian mission: friendly accompaniment, participatory governance and fervent evangelisation. During the opening ceremonies, several representatives of the Salesian Family spoke. Fr Robert Simon, moderator of the Provincial Chapter, encouraged members to participate actively, effectively and to make the Chapter a celebration. Fr Agilan Sarprasadam, INT Provincial, declared the Chapter open.

Genzano di Roma, Italy – April 2024 - The 6th Provincial Chapter on the evening of the first day of the Easter Octave with the singing of the Veni Creator and the official opening by the president Fr Stefano Aspettati, Superior of the Salesian Sacred Heart Circumscription of Central Italy (ICC). The Chapter assembly composed of 98 people, including Salesians and invited lay people, met in the Saint Aloysius Versiglia house in Genzano, Rome, where they will remain until Saturday, 6 April, to experience what is the moment of greatest shared responsibility in the life of a Province. The days, led by the Moderator Fr Michelangelo Dessì, will be marked by moments of prayer and assembly work times and commissions whose methodology this year will be inspired by the "spiritual conversations" that have animated the synodal assembly of the Church. The purpose of this is to give Chapter members the opportunity to listen to the Spirit to contribute on the one hand to the reflection in preparation for the 29th General Chapter of the Salesians of Don Bosco (set for 2025), for which the confreres will also be called to elect their own delegates, and on the other to share indications for the life of the Province.

Fr Francesco Galante