(ANS - Camporeale) – This is the story of Arthur, one of twelve boys met on 1 October 2015 at the "Open Arms" community in Camporeale, near Palermo. It is one of the projects of the Salesians in Social Work on behalf of young refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors. With him there are young people from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan, Egypt and countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

(ANS – Phnom Penh) – Joseph Sinnott, a Salesian High School student and Eagle Scout, completed a project to collect and repair bicycles for Salesian students in Cambodia. At the end of 2015, 39 bicycles were distributed to students supported by the Don Bosco Children Fund, a Salesian-run organization that assists poor youth between the ages of six and fifteen who are either unable to go to school or have had to drop out due to poverty.

(ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco, seen up close, is well known: he wrote a lot about himself and there are thousands of pages of witnesses, mostly Salesians. But how was he seen outside Salesian houses, in the last ten years of his life and in what was written about him after the council?

(ANS - Munich) - At the Third Meeting of the Missionaries in Europe recently held in Munich in Bavaria, there were five missionary priests ordained this year (4 for the Province of France-Southern Belgium and one for Northern Belgium). They had been sent as missionaries to Europe after their post-novitiate and had done their training and theological studies in their new Provinces.

(ANS - Aleppo) – There were new attacks and new massacres all over Syria on Sunday, 21 February: four explosions in Damascus, two attacks in Homs, and Aleppo is again disputed land between the army and various rebel factions. In this nightmare scenario the Salesians remain alongside the young people.