(ANS – Buenos Aires) – Between the end of April and the first days of May, Fr Gabriel Romero, Regional Councillor for South America, and Fr Alfonso Bauer – appointed by the Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime to share the Extraordinary Visitation on his behalf to the Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá Province of Southern Argentina (ARS) – continued their journeys getting to know and animate the various Salesian houses in the Province.

(ANS – Palabek)  - The Rector Major, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime celebrated the votive mass of Don Bosco for the confreres. In his homily, the Rector Major declared with profound conviction that the Salesian Mission was God’s gift. For this reason, he expressed his admiration and gratitude to the congregation, the provincial superior, and the AGL confreres for devoting their greater strength and commitment for this noble cause. He said that he could experience at firsthand the impact that our Salesian presence makes in the lives of those who need it most. The Rector Major also affirmed that the Palabek mission was the province's front-line mission, "it is a Salesian sin for a confrere to refuse the opportunity to reside and work here among these people of Palabek", he stated. He was confident that Don Bosco is very much pleased with the work that the Salesians are rendering to support the youth of Palabek. At the end, he prayed saying, “May Mary Help of Christians and Don Bosco bless this mission now and in the future”.

(ANS - Agua de Dios) – "Misiones Salesianas", the Salesian Mission Office in Madrid, Spain, in collaboration with the Spanish television program (TVE) "Pueblo de Dios", traveled to Colombia last November to take up and narrate the work of the Salesians of both Colombian provinces (Bogotá and Medellín), with several progressive chapters that report the work of the Sons of Don Bosco and the Salesian Family in different places: Bogotá, Agua de Dios, Barranquilla and Cali.

(ANS – Dili) – Upon their arrival at the Provincial House community of Timor Leste (TLS), in Dili, on May 2, 2024, Fr Joan Lluís Playà, SDB, the Rector Major’s Central Delegate for the Salesian Family Secretariat, and Brother Dominic Nam Nguyen, SDB, World Delegate for Past Pupils and Salesian Cooperators, has began their animation visit to the TLS Vice-Province. Some members of different groups of the Salesian Family from Maliana and Dili gathered at the AVR hall to greet and meet the two world delegates.

(ANS – Rome) – In order to answer to the mandate of the GC28 to respond creatively, courageously and educatively to the digital culture and the recent call of Pope Francis regarding the importance of artificial intelligence for the Church, the Sector of Salesian Social Communication has created an International Salesian Commission for Artificial Intelligence (ISCAI).