Araçatuba, Brasile – febbraio 2016 – Durante la Visita di Animazione all’Ispettoria di Campo Grande (BCG), don Natale Vitali, Consigliere per la Regione America Cono Sud, alla presenza di varie autorità civili e religiose, ha presieduto l’inaugurazione di nuove aule e l’apertura dell’Anno Accademico dell’Università Salesiana di Araçatuba. L’ateneo educa circa 8.000 giovani, è l’università salesiana con la miglior valutazione in Brasile, e ha ottenuto la possibilità di aprire un corso di Medicina per il progetto presentato e la qualità dell’educazione.  

Sumba Island, Indonesia - February 2016 - The Salesian presence in Sumba Island, Indonesia, began in 2001, with the novitiate and a small vocational training centre. During these 15 years the Salesian community has grown and now has two levels of initial formation, pre-novitiate and novitiate, and has recently obtained official government recognition as a High School. "SMK Don Bosco" has also opened a new chemistry laboratory. The work also has an oratory, a boarding school and a parish.

Manila, Philippines - February 2016 - On 20 February, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle Gokim, Archbishop of Manila, presided at the celebration of the re-enthronement of the statue of Mary Help of Christians in Manila Cathedral. Fr Anthony Bicomong, Superior of the Northern Philippines Province (FIN), was present for the occasion.