(ANS - Port Moresby) – The first Salesians had arrived in Papua New Guinea on June 14, 1980. The presence of Fr. Valeriano Barbero, Fr. Rolando Fernandez and Br. Joseph Kramar in Araimiri, Gulf Province, was the start of the Salesian Mission in this part of the world 43 years ago. In 1994, this presence became the Provincial Delegation of PNG under the SDB Philippines North Province (FIN).

Fr Gildasio Mendes – SDB

Don Bosco was a writer, Don Bosco was a journalist, Don Bosco was a great Church communicator.

He wrote a variety of texts such as hagiographies, historical texts on the Church, but also writings on education, religion and formation in general. There are 1,174 of his documents in all. Not only that. Our founder was also a journalist. In 1877 he founded the Salesian Bulletin and collaborated with it until his death.

(ANS - Lahore) - The first "Servant of God" in the history of the Church of Pakistan is the young Past Pupil of Don Bosco Akash Bashir. Given the situation of extreme tension and the succession of attacks and threats to the Christian communities, on March 15, 2015, Akash, then 20 years old, served among the volunteers assigned to watch over the safety of worshippers outside St. John's Church in the Christian suburb of Youhanabad, on the outskirts of Lahore. He had taken on this assignment with a great sense of responsibility, and did not hesitate to sacrifice his life to save the lives of hundreds of people who at that moment were praying inside the church: to stop a terrorist suicide bomber, he died with him.