(ANS– New Rochelle) – From 12 to 13 November 2024 the Directors of the four Mission Offices at the Congregational level were convened by Fr Alfred Maravilla, General Councillor for the Missions, in New Rochelle, United States. Dr Nelson Pinedo (Don Bosco Mission Bonn); Fr Luis Manuel Moral Lamela and Paula Álvarez-Naveiro Sánchez (Misiones Salesianas, based in Madrid); Fr Michael Conway and Fr Gabriel Stawowy (Salesian Missions, from New Rochelle) were present. Bro. Jean Paul Muller, Economer General, was also present, while a representative of Missioni Don Bosco in Turin was unavailable.

(ANS – Plei Rôngol Khop) – On Monday, 11 November 2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. the Mission Sector of Vietnam Province organised Salesian Mission Day at the Plei Rơngol Khop Community, gathering 350 participants, including Father Provincial, Barnaba Le An Phong, the Provincial Delegate for Mission Animation, Father Dominic Tran Quang Hien, archpriest of Chu Prong Father Dominic Dinh Quang Vinh, SDB Fathers, Brothers, young confreres from Plei Rơngol Khop, Thanh Ha, Thanh Binh, Iapia Communities, Parish Priests, FMA Sisters, Sisters from different Congregations serving and collaborating with SDB confreres in this mission area.

(ANS – Rome) – In the afternoon of Wednesday 13 November, the liturgical memorial of Saint Artemides Zatti, about 200 members of the Salesian Family from all over Rome, Italy and beyond, gathered in a spirit of fellowship and unity at the Salesian Sacred Heart community which houses the Headquarters of the Salesian Congregation, and recalled the figure, holiness and life teachings of the "kinsman of the poor".

(ANS – Wichimi) – A month before the Covid-19 pandemic stopped the world, the Yankuam Jintia football school had begun operating in the Achuar community of Wichimi, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Salesian missionary Fr Agustín Togo had seen an opportunity in football to educate and evangelise the young Achuar. "Evangelisation is not only done in the church, in the confessional, but in the playground as Don Bosco did," explains Fr Togo. Currently there are eight schools that operate for the Achuar population, in different communities of the Ecuadorian forest and more than 700 young people participate, training in this sport, and are educated in faith and life.

(ANS – San Francisco) – Sts. Peter and Paul Salesian parish in San Francisco celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of its church building on November 9th and 10th, 2024. Pastor Fr. Tho Bui, SDB, parochial vicars, Fr. Al Mengon, SDB, Fr. Vien Nguyen, SDB, and in-residence Salesians Fr. John Lam, SDB, and Brother Ernie Martinez, SDB, welcomed the hundreds of visitors throughout the weekend-long celebration. Conspicuously missing was 104-year-old Fr. Armand Oliveri, SDB, who was uncharacteristically under the weather.