Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy - March 2018 - At Colle Don Bosco, spiritual exercises were held for the young students of the middle school, or junior high, from 22 to 24 March. Two intense days in which young people took turns for moments of play, reflection, prayer and informal times, led by Fr Fabiano Gheller, Delegate for the Vocational Animation of the ICP Province, and Sr. Paola Casalis, of Vocational Animation.

Asunción, Paraguay - April 2018 - About 80 young people of the Salesian Youth Movement decided to live Holy Week by going to mission sites to bring the Word of God. Accompanied by supervisors and Salesians, the young people of SYM traveled hundreds of kilometers to reach three different parts of the country: Colonia Independencia, Minga Guazú and Chcaco Paraguayo. In every site, the young missionaries shared the celebrations of the Easter Triduum, animated prayers and encounters with children and young people.

Ljubljana, Slovenia - March 2018 - The social center "Skala" for young people in difficulty, active in the community of Kodeljevo in Ljubljana, has been organizing an artistic group called "Fuskabo" for five years. The group has created a theatrical artistic project - "Cirkolandija" - which involves 30 young people on the subject of immigration. Most of the actors are from the first or second generation of immigrants from the countries of the former Yugoslavia. To the numerous spectators, they have shared and conveyed the values of coexistence, creativity and respect for the social environment. The project was created by Zef Berišaj, leader of the "Fuskabo" group, originally from Montenegro.

São Paulo, Brazil - 1 April 2018 - A group of 50 young people, from various centers of the Salesians (SDB) and of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) of the provinces of Brazil-Sao Paulo, participated in the "Easter Youth", a project promoted by the SDB and FMA Youth Ministry.

Pétion-ville, Haiti - 31 March 2018 – An Easter vigil was held in the Salesian chapel of Pétion-ville.

Vatican City, Vatican - April 1, 2018 - In the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message, at the end of Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis began with "the beloved Syria whose population is exhausted by a war that does not see the end..." From here, the appeal to the "conscience of all the political and military leaders to put an immediate end to the extermination taking place, an appeal to respect the humanitarian drama and to facilitate the arrival of aid to which these brothers and sisters have urgent need, while ensuring at the same time adequate conditions for the return of its displaced people."