(ANS - Recife) - "In fact, there are no masses,” the sociologist Raymond Williams wrote. “There are only ways of seeing people as masses." Yet the media continue to see people as masses. Everyone must think the same or act in the same way. Edu-communication is not opposed to the use of the media; on the contrary, precisely because it recognizes the presence and influence of the media in everyday life it seeks to educate people in the use of media.

(ANS – Liloan) – On the morning of 11 March 2016, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, finally arrived at Don Bosco Boys’ Home in Cotcot, Liloan. He was warmly welcomed with the beat of the lyre and drum and ushered to the St Dominic Savio Pilgrim Chapel for a Thanksgiving Mass.

(ANS – Mumbai) - Students from 50 schools in Mumbai are striving to be more environmentally conscious and to care for creation, so as to conserve better our "common home", as Pope Francis calls it. The Salesians are also involved in encouraging those good practices.

(ANS - Rome) - One week after the attack on the house of the Missionaries of Charity in Aden, in Yemen, there is still no news of the Indian Salesian missionary Fr Tom Uzhunnalil. Fr Francesco Cereda, Vicar of the Rector Major, gave several interviews in recent days to maintain media attention on the death of the Sisters and the situation of the missing Salesian.

(ANS – Talisay) – The second day of the Rector Major’s visit to the Southern Province commenced in the Don Bosco Formation Centre, in Lawaan, Talisay. He visited the Novitiate House, then encountered the Salesians from the different communities of Cebu and Dumaguete, stressing that meeting each confrere in the Province would make the long journey worthwhile.