(ANS – Rome) – On the day of the Feast of Mary Help of Christians, 24 May 2024, by decree (Prot. No. 02906/2024 - 467/2021) the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education has appointed Prof. Fr Andrea Bozzolo, SDB, Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) for the three-year tern from 2024-2027. Fr Bozzolo, who has already served the UPS in the same position from 3 August 2021, will begin his second term from 3 August 2024.

(ANS – Rome) – On Wednesday 29 May 2024, at 18:30 (UTC+2), the outcome of the restoration of the decorative program for the Saint Cecilia crypt, generously financed by the Fondazione Paola Droghetti ONLUS, carried out by Maria Gigliola Patrizi and Giovanna Prestipino under the direction of Barbara Mazzei, from the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology, will be presented at the site of the Saint Callistus Catacombs in Rome.

(ANS – Lagos) – Rev. Fr. Gildasio Mendes, the Councillor for Social Communication, recently made his animation visit to the 2-year-old province of Nigeria – Niger ( ANN) from May 23-28 to animate the Social Communication Sector and its collaborators.

(ANS – Atyrau) – Fr Alfred Maravilla, General Councillor for the Missions, was on an exploratory visit to Kazakhstan from 24 to 28 May 2024, at the invitation of Fr Peter Sakmár, Apostolic Administrator of Atyrau. "I accepted the invitation because it is the task of the General Councillor for the Missions to explore new possible frontiers for the Congregation" he explained. The General Councillor arrived on the solemnity of Mary Help of Christians. During the Eucharist in the main church of the Apostolic Administration in Atyrau, he entrusted this visit to "She who did everything".

(ANS – Turin) – After three intense weeks of sharing and discussion, the "Corso Sorgente" (Return to the Sources) for missionaries ad gentes "over 70" ended on Saturday, 25 May 2024, an experience proposed by the Sector for Salesian Missions to older Salesians with long missionary experience, so that they could return to the source of their Salesian missionary vocation.