(ANS - Catania) - Fr Francesco Bontà, SDB, has been a prison chaplain in the Bicocca jail of Catania for the past two years. There he works daily, like Don Bosco, "because behind the bars," he says, "I find Jesus."

(ANS - Honiara) - Anthony Wale is a young man from the Solomon Islands, currently a Salesian pre-novitiate in Cebu, Southern Philippines. The vocational journey he has begun with the Salesians is the result of an individual quest, but also testimony from several Salesian missionaries in his native land. This is his vocational narrative.

(ANS - Brazzaville) - While in different parts of the Salesian world, the Provinces are being merged for a number of reasons, in Africa, a new hope for Salesian life begins thanks to the creation of the new "Africa Congo Congo" (ACC) Vice Province. To learn more about this new Salesian reality, ANS interviewed Fr Manuel Jiménez, the first ACC Provincial.