(ANS – Buenos Aires) – The Extraordinary Visitation to the Blessed Cerafino Namuncurá Province of Southern Argentina (ARS) continues. The visitation has already touched the houses in Neuquén province, those in the middle valley of the Río Negro, Bahía Blanca, and the houses in the metropolitan area and the city of Buenos Aires. Fr Gabriel Romero, Regional Councillor for America South Cone, visited La Plata, La Pampa and some houses in the city of Buenos Aires; while Fr Alfonso Bauer, appointed by the Rector Major to accompany the Regional Councillor for America South Cone in his Visitation, was in Parque Avellaneda.

(ANS – Turin) – Among the skills with which Don Bosco was able to educate was the Strenna, that message that he announced at the end of the year to all the young people of the Oratory. His successors continued this tradition. The most recent of them by Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, for the 2024 Strenna, "The dream that makes you dream. A heart that transforms ‘wolves’ into ‘lambs’", was inspired by the famous dream that young John Bosco had at the age of nine, exactly 200 years ago.

(ANS – Livorno) – The 93-year-old Salesian from Tuscany, Luigi Zoppi, received the "Canaviglia" award on Tuesday 19 March 2024, the feast of Saint Joseph, for his commitment to drug addicts, AIDS patients and migrants. The award is a city honour from the municipality of Livorno – a city where the Salesian has been working, always at the service of the least and at the heart of the Church, for almost 50 years.

(ANS – New Rochelle) - Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins humanitarian organizations and countries around the globe in celebrating International Day of Happiness, which falls each year on March 20. In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that recognized happiness as a “fundamental human goal” and called for “a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes the happiness and well-being of all people.”

(ANS – Tirana) – For the meeting of the Executive Council of the World Confederation of Past Pupils of Don Bosco, the President Mr Bryan Magro and the General Secretary Mr Peter Kováč visited the Salesians working in Albania and Kosovo as part of their animation visits to continue to expand the organisation in more countries around the world.