Rome, Italy - July 2016 - A meeting of the Salesian Institutes of Higher Education (IUS) took place from 4 to 9 July at the Salesian Generalate. The Institutes are called upon to evaluate the progress made since the meeting in 2012 and to draw up guidelines for the next four years. There are Salesian Institutes of Higher Education in 20 countries in 5 continents. On the morning of 6 July Fr Ángel Fernández Artime presented some points for reflection.

Žilina, Slovakia - June 26, 2016 - The Salesians of Slovakia, a small country with a big missionary heart, are responsible for some significant outposts, such as those in Siberia and Azerbaijan. Their spirit is shared by the laity. For more than ten years young people from the Salesian organization "SAVIO" have been going abroad for missionary volunteer experiences. On Sunday 26 June, at Žilina, after careful discernment ten young people received the missionary cross and will go to work in Angola, Azerbaijan, Mexico and Kenya and among the Roma in Slovakia. Apart from these, another 50 young Slovaks will go this summer on a mission to Ukraine and 20 others will be working with the Roma community in Slovakia.

Meruri, Brazil - June 2016 - In June, some young people from the Salesian parish of "São Gonçalo" went on a missionary visit to Meruri, to the Salesian mission among the ethnic Bororo Indians. The young people were able to learn the story of the martyrs of Meruri, Fr Rodolfo Lunkenbein, SDB, and Simão Cristino Koge Ekudugodu, himself a Bororo. They went through the Holy Door for the Jubilee of Mercy, and carried out various social activities with the indigenous children and young people.