Campo Grande, Brazil - July 2018 - On 29 July, Fr Gildásio Mendes, Provincial of the Campo Grande Province (BCG), presided at the celebration during which the Salesian André Luiz Mattner Neuhaus (BCG), and Salesians missionaries Beatus Volkmar Tola, of the Vice Province of Indonesia, and Joseph Tran Van Lich, of the Province of Vietnam, professed their perpetual vows.
Warsaw, Poland - July 2018 – On July 26-28, the missionaries of the Salesians and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians currently on holidays in Poland met at the Salesian Mission Office in Warsaw. Participants included: Sr. Ewa Potaczek and Sr. Beata Bienias (Argentina); Sister Brygida Żurawska (Ukraine); Sr. Małgorzata Pietruszczak (Georgia); Fr Krzysztof Jasiński (Ethiopia); Fr Ryszard Jóżwiak (Rwanda); Waldemar Jonatowski (South Sudan); Fr Wacław Nosal (Japan); Fr Kazimierz Socha (Kenya); Fr Stefan Górecki and Fr Ryszard Łach (Peru); Fr Artur Bartol (Central African Republic); Fr Paweł Kociołek (Bangladesh); Fr Krzysztof Gniazdowski (Mongolia); Fr Paweł Dziadkiewicz (USA) and Fr Klemens Deja (Brazil). The meeting was an opportunity to integrate, discuss and share missionary experiences. The activities of the Salesian Mission Office were presented and the issues of cooperation with the center were also discussed. In addition, the missionaries released several interviews, talking about the joys and difficulties of their work.
Vienna, Austria - July 2018 - On 7 July, with a celebration and Mass in the Don Bosco church in Vienna, 15 young Austrian adults began their year of missionary volunteer work abroad with the organization "Volontariat Bewegt". The volunteers will engage in social projects for children and youth of various Salesian centers in the world.
Makati, Philippines - July 2018 - On 21 July the Salesians of the North Philippine Province (FIN) met at the "Don Bosco Technical Institute" for a meeting on the topic of finances and social communications. Fr Anthony Paul Bicomong, FIN Provincial, underlined how the Salesians, in this era of new evangelization, should carry out their ministries for the young with a genuine communication of the Good News of the Lord and with an appropriate administration of the goods that the Divine Providence has entrusted them.
Medellín, Colombia - July 2018 - On 29 July, in the parish "Our Lady of Suffrage", Fr Timothy Ploch, Councilor for the Interamerica Region, presided over the inauguration ceremony of the new Provincial of the Medellín Province, Fr Luis Fernando Valencia.
Melbourne, Australia - July 2018 - The inaugural meeting of the Missionary Animation Team of the Salesian Province of Australia (AUL), led by the Provincial Delegate, Lauren Hichaba, took place on 18 July. Composed of SDB, FMA and lay people, the team's first meeting examined the role, responsibilities and methods to contribute to the missionary animation of the AUL Province.