(ANS - Hanoi) - In recent years, many Salesian missionaries have come to Europe from Vietnam. Today there are about 330 Salesians of Don Bosco in the "St. John Bosco" Province, which counts 33 communities in Vietnam and two in Mongolia. Their work takes on many shapes and sizes, but all of them are at the side of young people.

(ANS - Vatican City) - The Press Conference to present the Apostolic Exhortation of Holy Father Francis “Gaudete et Exsultate, on the call to holiness in today's world” was held at the Press Office of the Holy See at 9:15 today. "My modest goal is to repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and opportunities," wrote the Pontiff in the introduction of the text.

(ANS - Rome) - Every year on April 6th the "International Day of Sport for Development and Peace" is commemorated: a day that represents a global challenge, even as one looks to the next World Cup in Russia and the diplomatic tensions in progress between many countries. Today more than ever, sport must be an instrument of development and peace and for the Salesians in particular it represents an engine in the fulfillment of its own educational task.