(ANS – Vienna) – On occasion of the Day of Street-children on 31 January, the Austrian NGO, Jugend Eine Welt, which is supporting Don Bosco projects all over the world, demanded that much better protection be given to refugee minors in Europe, in particular in Turkey and Greece where the majority of refugees arrive.

(ANS – Roma) – On February 27th, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, will leave to Cambodia, the first leg of a trip to East Asia which will take him to encounter the Salesian Family of three Provinces: Thailand, Philippines North and Philippines South.

(ANS – Majunga) – Florian Lucchini is a French young man, well known in the network of the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM-MGS) and among the volunteers of VIDES. In July 2014 he left as a voluntary worker for a project in favour of children and youth in a detention home in Madagascar, an experience that marked him so deeply that at the end of 2015 he decided to dedicate another six months to young Malagasies, at the Don Bosco Centre of Mahajanga. Here below are some excerpts of his testimony.

(ANS - San Salvador) - The International Labour Organization gives a dark and disquieting report on youth employment. "There are 1.7 million newly unemployed in the region of Latin America, out of a total of 19 million" it was announced by the organization at the presentation in Lima, Peru, of the document. Work in 2015: overall view for Latin America and the Caribbean." The most worrying aspect is the situation of young people, because in the region, the youth unemployment rate is three times higher than that of adults. Faced with this gloomy picture, the Salesians want to offer a proposal.

(ANS – Mumbai) – Father Leon Cruz is the only Salesian priest in India to be appointed as a Missionary of Mercy by Pope Francis in this Jubilee year of Mercy. He says of his appointment, "By God's Grace and Mercy, I would be happy to reach out to as many people as possible as a Missionary of Mercy."