Benediktbeuern, Germany - October 2016 - On 30 October the musical "Don Bosco" was staged in the monastery of Benediktbeuern.  It was a big hit with the audience, made up of many families and young people who packed the "Alliance Hall "in the Environment and Culture Centre. The musical Don Bosco is an original work by the Italians Piero Castellacci and Renato Biagioli. It is a summary of the life of the Saint of the Young.

Guwahati, India - October 2016 - On 28 October, the Salesian Fr V.M. Thomas, Provincial of Guwahati, received the "Telegraph Axom Shrestho 2016", for his outstanding contribution in the field of education and development of young people.

Salelologa, Samoa – 26 October - The new wing of the school at Salelologa on the island of Savai'i was dedicated to the late missionary Fr Elio Proietto, one of the pioneer Salesians in the Samoan archipelago. The inauguration was attended by about 1000 people, including Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga of Apia, the Ministers of Education and Finance, Loau Keneti and Sili Epa, and the Economer of the Australia-Pacific Province, Fr Anthony Nguyen. In his official speech Fr Nguyen thanked the Rector Major who, after his visit in 2015, obtained from the Salesian Mission Offices in Turin and Madrid more than half of the funds needed to build the new wing.