(ANS – Rome) – The second ‘senior’ Salesian who shared his story and missionary experience with the other elderly missionaries, as part of the ‘Return to the Sources Course’ organised by the Missions Sector in this month of May 2024, was Fr Segundo Manuel Cabrera Arevalo. 84 years of age, 66 years of Salesian life and 44 as a priest, Fr Cabrera is originally from Ecuador and is one of the few missionaries who has served in his own country, as he has worked with the indigenous communities there.

(ANS – Ayagualo) – After almost 100 days spent visiting Salesian works in the six countries that make up the Divine Saviour Province of Central America (CAM) – specifically: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama – Fr Walter Jara, SDB, has concluded his Extraordinary Visitation to the Province, carried out by mandate and on behalf of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

(ANS – Shillong) – Dedicated to Mary Help of Christians, on 26 May 2024, the solemnity of the feast of the Holy Trinity, Archbishop Victor Lyngdoh opened the Salesian Parish of Mary Help of Christians at Mawpdang and appointed Father Sebastian Tirkey SDB as its first Parish Priest during a solemn Holy Mass.

(ANS – Rome) – At the Course based on "Returning to the origins" organised by the Salesian Missions Sector for Salesians of advanced age and long missionary experience, a central moment was the one called "sharing my life lived in mission", in which all the participants were able from time to time to talk about their missionary vocation, the challenges experienced and the lessons learned in their 30, 40 or 50 years in mission. To share these valuable testimonies with the entire Salesian Family, from today ANS will present the testimonies of these "older" Salesians, as ideas and models for the Congregation today. We begin, therefore, with Fr Alfredo Boldori, a 75-year-old Italian originally from the Province of Cremona, but active for many years in the Province of Recife, Brazil (BRE).

(ANS – Rome) – Rome-Ljubljana-Rome in less than 48 hours: barely two days after the celebration of the Feast of Mary Help of Christians, Friday, 24 May, at the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Via Tuscolana, and after his lightning visit to Slovenia the following day for the centenary of the church of Mary Help of Christians in Raknovik Ljubljana, the Rector Major returned to the southeast quadrant of Rome to celebrate the Eucharist on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity with the community of the Parish Basilica of St John Bosco in Rome, and thus conclude a special "triduum" under the sign of Our Lady of Don Bosco.