MADRE CHIARA CAZZUOLA, 10th Successor of Mother Mazzarello

5 October 2021

Salesian Family, Salesian Society, The Regional,

Dearest Sisters, After a profound listening to the Holy Spirit, in an atmosphere of serenity and prayer, in these days of discernment we have experienced the power of the communion and prayer of the whole Institute. Today 5 October 2021 she said her ``yes``, available and generous to be the tenth Successor of Mother Mazzarello, as guide of the FMA Institute, MADRE CHIARA CAZZUOLA

- Sr. Angela Maria Maccioni

Angel Fernandez Fernandez, Father of our Rector Major Passes Away

15 September 2021

Salesian Family, Salesian Society, The Regional,

(ANS - Rome) - At 7 am today, 15 September, Angel Fernandez Fernandez, the father of our Rector Major, Fr Angel Fernandez Artime, breathed his last after a long illness. Born in Luanco, Asturias, Spain, on 12 June 1932, he passed away after 89 years of life and 61 years of marriage by the side of his mother Isabel Artime.

- ANS- Rome

Former Provincial of INM, Fr Vincent Durairaj Passes Away

1 August 2021

SPCSA, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, The Regional,

Father Vincent Durairaj, the former Provincial of Salesian Province of Chennai (INM), succumbed to Covid-19 related ailments at Kaveri Hospital, Chennai, on Saturday evening. He was 84 years old.

- Fr Mathews Dominic

Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli Appointed as Nuncio to India

13 March 2021

Education, Evangelization, Missions, Salesian Family, The Regional,

His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Most Rev. Leopoldo Girelli (67) as the new Apostolic Nuncio to India. Before the appointment to India, he was Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine. The announcement came on Saturday, 13 March 2021, at 4:30 p.m.

- Bastin Nellissery sdb

DBBM, Cradle of Salesian Formation Celebrates Golden Jubilee

4 February 2021

DB Alumni, Rector Major, Salesian Society, Spirituality, The Regional, Vocation, Young at Risk,

Don Bosco Bhavan Mannuthy, the cradle of Salesian formation for the Province of Bangalore, celebrated its Golden Jubilee of Foundation on January 30, 2021. Fr Joyce Thonikuzhiyil, Provincial, with Fr Jose Koyickal, Vice-provincial and the provincial designate, and Salesians, presided over the thanksgiving Holy Eucharist. Fifty lamps representing the fifty years were placed at the altar at the beginning of the Mass, reminding the fifty graceful and rays-filled years of Don Bosco Bhavan. The Jubilee candle lit for the past 364 days was lit once again by Fr John PK, Rector, in gratitude to God for the blessings.

- Bastin Nellissry sdb

INK-Bangalore Blessed with 12 New Priests

12 January 2021

Agencies, Rector Major, SPCSA, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, The Regional, Vocation,

The call of Jesus, to be fishers of men (Mathew 4:19) in the Don Bosco way, were heeded by four from Karnataka and eight from Kerala for the Province of Bangalore this year. The Sacred Heart Province of Bangalore (INK) is blessed with 12 new priests in the latter half of 2020 and at the beginning of 2021. Though the current pandemic protocol laid down restrictions, the ordination to the priesthood of these deacons was solemnized in the best way possible, attended by Salesians, relatives and well-wishers.

- Bastin Nellissery

Congratulations to Fr Jose Thomas Koyickal, New Provincial Nominated

11 December 2020

Media, SPCSA, The Regional,

The Rector Major with the consent of the General Council has nominated Fr Jose Koyickal as the Provincial of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Bangalore.

- Bastin Nellissery

Don Bosco South Asia Formation Commission meets online to draft Formation Plan 2020-2026

3 September 2020

Formation, SPCSA, Salesian Society, Spirituality, The Regional, Vocation,

The Don Bosco South Asia Formation Commission with 25 participants, that consisted of the Formation Department team, composed of Fathers Silvio Roggia, Raymond Callo and Jose Kuttianimattathil, with the SPCSA Provincial Representative Father Joyce Mathew, Provincial of Bangalore [INK] and the Provincial Delegates for Formation, with the Provincial Vicars, met from 27-30 August 2020. The online meet was chaired by the General Councillor for Formation Father Ivo Coelho.

- BIS Correspondent

Salesian Provincial Conference of South Asia [SPCSA] Virtual Assembly Underway

2 September 2020

Administration, Agencies, Brothers Congress, Chapter, DBYES, Development Office, Don Bosco Tech India, Education Dept, Education and Culture, Evangelization, Justice and Human Rights, Mental Health, Parish / Church, SPCSA, Salesian Society, Social Development, Social Ministry, The Regional,

The Don Bosco Salesian Provincial Conference of South Asia [SPCSA] Assembly is currently in progress from 01 to 03 September 2020 via the virtual medium. Convoked under the leadership of the SPCSA President Father Biju Michael, South Asia Regional Councillor, 40 Salesians are participating in this virtual assembly including Province Delegates and South Asia Sector and Dimenison Coordinators, apart from the Provincials of the South Asia region.

- BIS Correspondent

BOSCOM South Asia Delegate - Father Ernest Rosario appointed Coordinator Salesian International Commission for Social Communication

27 August 2020

Appointments, Media, Rector Major, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, Social Life, Success Story, The Regional,

Indian Salesian Father Ernest Rosario, South Asia Delegate for Social Communication is appointed Coordinator for the newly established Salesian International Commission for Social Communication, as of 26 August 2020. At an online meet organized by the General Councilor for Social Communications, Father Gildasio dos Santos Mendes, attended by the Coordinators of the Delegates for Social Communication of the various Regions - Zaida Elisa Navarrete (America), Father Pierluigi Lanotte (Mediterranean Europe), Fatherr James Gardner (Central-Northern Europe), Father Ernest Rosario (South Asia), Father Lijo Vadakkan (Africa-Madagascar) and Father Peter P Chinh (East Asia-Oceania) - Father Rosario was requested to head the newly established international committee.

- BIS Correspondent

Father Anthony Mahimai Dass Awarded Doctorate in Church History

8 July 2020

Education, Education Higher, Education and Culture, Evangelization, Formation, Language and Cultures, Missions, Parish / Church, Profiles, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, Success Story, The Regional,

Father Anthony Mahimai Dass of the Salesian Province of Bangalore [INK], successfully defended his doctoral research thesis titled ``Jesuit Letters and Mysore History: Annual Letters and Relations of Mysore Mission as Source for the Secular History of Mysore Kingdom from AD 1648 till 1704`` at the Gregorian University, Rome, on 06 July 2020. The thesis was guided by Dr Vitor D�lio Jacinto de Mendon�a, SJ.

- Father Bastin Nellissery

Don Bosco Network-South Asia COVID-19 Solidarity Relief Sustains 1.59 Million Across India

3 July 2020

Administration, Agencies, BOSCO, BOSCO Out Reach, Development Office, Disasters, Procure, Projects, SPCSA, Social Ministry, The Regional,

India has 220,114 active cases of COVID-19 and 17400 deaths as of 01 July 2020 (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI). News flashes and ambulance sirens cause stress levels to rise. Few states in the country continue to impose lockdowns to control the escalating cases of infection, while most others have lifted restrictions. Though people can now come out into public and are free to move around, things are no longer the same. Livelihoods have vanished for a huge population of daily wagers across the country, affecting their very survival. For most middle-class people, incomes have been affected. Regular commodities are more expensive and petrol prices soaring. In the midst of this very volatile situation, the Don Bosco Network through its 11 Don Bosco planning and development partners (PDOs) across various states, geographies, cultures and economies, is keeping its ear to the ground, listening carefully to conversations for indications coming from the people. To be effectively helpful in the current context, we require to understand and formulate responses to various situations. The Don Bosco Network across India is doing just that.

- Cheryl Bartholomeusz & Father Noel M.

Regional Councilor for South Asia Father Biju Michael Intends ``to transform lives of half a million young people``

26 June 2020

Agencies, Chapter, Counselling, Don Bosco Tech India, Ecology, Education, Evangelization, Formation, Justice and Human Rights, Language and Cultures, Life and Health, Lifestyle, Marginalized, Mental Health, Missions, Procure, Profiles, Projects, Religion, SPA-India, SPCSA, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, Skills Training - MoRD Project, Social Development, Social Life, Social Ministry, Spirituality, Success Story, The Regional, Vocation, Young at Risk, Youth,

The General Chapter 28 has profoundly renewed the General Council of the Salesian Congregation. For this reason, today we begin, with Father Biju Michael, Regional Councilor for South Asia, a series of interviews designed to get to know the new Councilors who assist the Rector Major in the animation and government of the Congregation a little better.

- BIS Correspondent - Courtesy InfoANS

Indian Salesian Father Thommai Antonyrajan Dies in Sri Lanka

14 June 2020

Counselling, Disasters, Obituary, Profiles, Religion, SPCSA, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, The Regional, Vocation,

Indian Salesian Father Thommai Antonyrajan of the Salesian Province of Tiruchy [INT] who was working in the Province of Sri Lanka [LKC], met a tragic end at sea, and was confirmed dead at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, 14 June 2020. He was aged 56. Father Thommai was a former Vice-Provincial of the Salesian Province of Tiruchy from 2005-2008.

- BIS Correspondent

Don Bosco Green Alliance Launches `Rethink, Reconnect, Renew` Campaign

5 June 2020

Agencies, Ecology, Education, Education Dept, Education Higher, Education School, Education and Culture, Employment, Justice and Human Rights, Language and Cultures, Lifestyle, Profiles, Projects, Rector Major, SPCSA, Salesian Family, Salesian Society, Social Development, Social Life, Social Ministry, Spirituality, The Regional, Vocation, Volunteering, Youth, Youth Groups,

On 05 June 2020, 46th World Environment Day, Don Bosco Green Alliance, an international collective of young people from the Salesian Family institutions, who contribute to global environmental action, thought and policy, launched a new campaign `Rethink, Reconnect, Renew`. This campaign will be run throughout the ongoing Laudato S�` Year. Father Savio Silveira-Convener Don Bosco Green Alliance addressed a letter on the launch of the new campaign to the Alliance Members.

- BIS Correspondent

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