NEWS PHOTOS
Mumbai, India - October 2016 - More than 5,000 people attended the Bosco Raas Garba 2016 folk festival at the Don Bosco High School, Matunga. This festival symbolizes goodness prevailing over evil.
Lubumbashi, R.D. Congo - October 2016 - On 11 October, during the Eucharistic celebration at which Fr Jean-Claude Ngoy, Superior of Central Africa, presided, three young students from the Salesian Youth Movement, Ezechiel, Eric and Dominique, were sent on mission to Sakania in southern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy - October 2016 – At Evening Prayer on 11 October, the Salesian community of Colle Don Bosco, led by Fr Luca Barone, blessed a lamp that will burn as a sign of supplication for peace in the Middle East and particularly in Syria. The lamp is placed on the altar in the Lower Basilica that was contributed by the Province of the Middle East when the then Rector Major asked for contributions from the whole Salesian world for the construction of the Church on the hill of the birthplace of Don Bosco. Today the community which preserves and keeps alive those holy places feels an obligation of prayer and solidarity with the whole Salesian world.
Saltillo, Mexico - 6 October 2016 – Seventeen students of Don Bosco Technological Institute (INTEC) of Saltillo which was opened in 2003, graduated with a degree in Electromechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, making them the first Salesian-trained engineers in the country. Twenty-nine other young people celebrated the end of their studies after two years in the Higher Technical University courses in Mechatronics and Higher Technical Degree in Electromechanical, with a specialization in Industrial Management or in Metallurgical Processes. INTEC offers technical courses to baccalaureate level, and in recent years more than two thousand students have graduated.