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The Second day of EAO Team Visit 2024 at K’Long Retreat Centre
K'Long, Vietnam, 16 February 2024 -- At 6:30 a.m., 15 February, the participants gathered in the chapel to celebrate Mass presided over by the Rector Major. In the sermon, the Vicar of the Rector Major relied on God's word to invite everyone to live a spirit of renunciation to follow Jesus and become disciples of […]
EAO MEETING 2024
K'Long, Vietnam, 14 February 2024 -- The Rector Major, Cardinal Angel Artime Fernandes, welcomed participants and invited them to spend these days of the Team Visit with an open heart and mind and in communion with each other. The Rector Major spoke of credible leadership, a vision that looks to the future, Salesian consecrated Identity, […]
Salesians to Vanuatu for Youth Camp  
Early this year, during the third visit to Vanuatu by Fr. Greg and Fr. Alfred on February 22nd-27th 2023, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed on February 25th stating that the first Salesians will arrive in 2025. As part of the preparation of this Salesian Mission, Bishop Jean Bosco suggested to the provincial if the […]
Neighbours reach out
East Boroko, Port Moresby, PNG, 7 September 2023 -- Reaching out with the spirit of Don Bosco to those in need during the foundation week celebration. There is no better day than the birthday of Don Bosco commemoration, 16 August 2023, to reach out in celebration with the neighboring community of Vadavada, a home to […]
Don Bosco Tech Celebrates Family Day
DBTI Boroko, Port Moresby, PNG, 7 September 2023 -- The Don Bosco Technological Institute celebrated the five days of Don Bosco Foundation week and ended it on the sixth day with the Family Day Celebration. The Family Day used to be an annual event celebrated by both the students and their families. However, for the […]
Wantok Bosco 2023
“As the Yeast in today’s human family”, was the theme of this year’s WANTOK BOSCO Youth Camp. It was hosted at Don Bosco Technological campus from the 23rd to the 25th of June 2023. The camp, a climax of the youth and club activities in the institutions and parishes, had nearly 200 persons as participants and animators […]
ONE AT HEART IN THE MISSION TO CARE
“As the yeast in Today’s Human Family”, Fr. Gregory Bicomong, SDB Provincial led the whole family to a beautiful reflection of how we could be silent yeast making a difference in the reality where PNG is. He alarmed us with the global survey that PNG is the 2nd country with the highest Crime rates (April […]
ADMA Youth Camp 2023: As the Yeast in today’s human Family
This year’s ADMA Youth camp has for its theme the strenna of the Rector Major for 2023: “As the Yeast in today’s Human Family”. Originally called the 300 Youth for Mary founded in 2008 by the late Fr. Valeriano Barbero, SDB, pioneer Salesian missionary in Papua New Guinea, the group has now evolved into the […]
Editorial
Don Bosco

Don Bosco was creative, enthusiastic and enterprising in his work. He wrote and edited booklets, school texts, histories, digests, magazines, fliers, plays. From his earliest years as a priest, Don Bosco communicated through his whole demeanour and person, through games, talking, visiting, preaching, and publishing. Communicating through the internet and publishing is a priority for Salesians. Inspired by this example of Don Bosco and the early Salesians, Social Communication continues an important priority.