Argentina – September 2024 – An online meeting of the School Pastoral Coordinators in the Salesian Province of Argentina South (ARS) took place on 16 September. There many many objectives: to meet and celebrate the educational vocation at the service of pastoral care; to face up to the paths and challenges of school pastoral care throughout the continent; to discern together the policies for the coming years in this field and specific service; to share information. After a prayer ed by Rocío Manceñido, Oscar Pérez Sayago, Secretary General of the Interamerican Confederation of Catholic Education (CIEC), spoke, providing a global overview of school ministry in the continent and sharing what, in his opinion, are the four great challenges that pastoral care faces today in Argentine schools. In the third part, led by Gabriela Gómez, Provincial Delegate of the School Sector, the participants worked in groups to reflect on the challenges and propose suggestions for policies that, in this specific field, they would like to explore in the coming years. The meeting was also an opportunity to share the progress made on the framework document for School Pastoral Care and other documents.

Sao Paulo, Brazil – September 2024 – A Meeting of the National Commission for Salesian Youth Ministry took place on Saturday 14 September at the Santa Inês College in Sao Paulo (SP), involving Delegates and Provincial Coordinators of Salesian Youth Ministry in the Provinces of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and the Salesians of Don Bosco in Brazil. During the program, there were moments of planning the journey, with a view to optimising pastoral processes. Youth Ministry is the heart of the Salesian educational mission that seeks, through faith processes, to educate by evangelising and to evangelise by educating. The meeting of the National Commission for Youth Ministry is a space rich in synodality, where SDB and FMA share their experiences in the various realities of the country and spell pout guidelines to promote a pastoral path that responds to the needs of today's young people.

Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy – September 2024 - The Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) meeting on 14 September brought together young people and leaders for an event inspired by the Rector Major Ángel Fernández Artime's Strenna for 2025, "Anchored in hope, pilgrims with young people". It was a time of gathering at the beginning of the pastoral year and sharing, divided into different age groups, each committed to exploring how to face the resumption of the daily routine with renewed hope through games and activities. As a testimony to a promise of Love that lasts forever, before lunch the young people had the opportunity to listen to talks from the two newly professed, Giorgio Ramundo and Fabrizio Spina, who entrusted their lives to the Lord according to the charism of St John Bosco in the upper Basilica of Colle don Bosco in the afternoon. The celebration was presided over by the Councillor for the Mediterranean Region, Fr Juan Carlos Pérez Godoy, and was attended by the families and friends of the young confreres: Fabrizio Spina (Italy – ICP), Faraz Masih (Pakistan), Freymoe Win (Myanmar), Giorgio Giuseppe Domenico Ramundo (Italy – ICP), John Phyo Thura Aung (Myanmar), Volodymyr Basarab (Ukraine). The SYM Meeting thus offered a powerful reflection on the theme of hope, expressed at the time of the traditional Salesian Goodnight, at the end of the day, by Fr Leonardo Mancini, ICP Provincial.