(ANS – Sampran) – Salesian confreres and members of the Salesian Family joined in the Eucharistic Celebration at the inauguration of the 350th anniversary of the apostolic vicariate of Siam Mission [1669 - 2019 A.D.] on the 18th of May 2019. His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was the main celebrant. The celebration was held at St Pope John Paul II hall located within “St. Joseph Upatham School”, Sampran, Nakorn Pathom.

(ANS - Aleppo) - The Salesians in Syria have been able to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. On rare occasions the Salesian centers of Aleppo and Damascus have had to close, due to the likely danger that bombs and missiles would fall in the midst of the multitude of minors who attend the oratory, which has always been for them an "oasis of peace" in the middle of the ongoing war.

(ANS - Macas) - The Youth House of Macas was the site of an event that does not happen very often: the gathering in one place of Salesian missionaries from the Andes with those of the Amazon, which is what happened from May 13 - 15, to share a fraternal space for formation and reflection on missionary praxis.