(ANS - Rome) - This afternoon, 20 October, the Rector Major leaves for another of his visits to the confreres, this time in Asia. For the next few days, until Saturday 29 October, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime will spend time with the Salesians and Salesian Family in Mongolia and Myanmar, listening to them and encouraging them.

(ANS - Lima) - The most recent study conducted by UNICEF on adolescents in Peru confirms a serious crisis. There are more than 3.6 million Peruvians between 12 and 18 years of age.  Of these, "it is estimated that in rural areas 74% are poor, while in cities the percentage is 39.8%. Poverty, exclusion and inequality are normal for these young people." Technical institutes are a way to give work to poorer young people. At present it is estimated that there are on average 400,000 technical education students as well as those in professional institutes designed to improve the productive sector.

(ANS - Los Angeles) - The Pope's address at Lampedusa continues to act as a heart-breaking voice to thousands of migrants who, with the hope of a better life, risk their lives, not knowing if they will arrive at "the other place" alive. The Pope's voice keeps on asking: "Who has wept for the death of these brothers and sisters? Who cried for these people who were in the boat? For these men who wanted something to support their families? We are a society that has forgotten how to weep and how to suffer with others: the globalization of indifference has taken away our ability to weep!"

(ANS – Bruxelles) – Don Bosco International Executive Secretary, Angel Gudiña, has intervened in the round table “Reaching out to the excluded youth leveraging the potential of youth organisations” sharing the best practices within Don Bosco Movement of the use of European Funds to empower and include in their communities excluded young people in Salesian Presences in Europe.

(ANS - Uvira) - The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country where you find peace and war, the beautiful and the grotesque, and above all where life and death are intertwined. It is a country where people, especially children and girls, for the simple fact of being born in this beautiful country, have experienced various human rights violations: senseless wars, forced labour, recruitment as child soldiers, lack of education and early forced marriages.