(ANS - Brussels) - From 3 to 7 April Don Bosco International (DBI) ran an intensive promotion of Salesian activities in Brussels, in various public, private and third sector venues.

(ANS – New York) – The 61st Commission on the Status of Women was held at UN Headquarters in New York, March 13-24, 2017 addressing the Priority theme: “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work”. Research has shown that providing women with opportunities to improve their health, education, and well-being has a multiplier effect in a community as she creates a better life for her family and helps build a strong community. Investing in women is an investment in a community and in sustainable development.

(ANS - Rome) - "The Church of the first millennium was born of the blood of the martyrs (...) At the end of the second millennium, the Church has once again become a Church of martyrs" (John Paul II, Tertio Millennio Adveniente). To mark the 80th anniversary of the death of Sister Carmen Moreno Benítez and Sister Amparo Carbonell Muñoz, both of whom were martyred during the Spanish Civil War, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians are organizing a conference on the FMA and Martyrdom, to be held tomorrow, Thursday, 30 March at 17:00, at the Madre Ersilia Canta House in Rome.