Bosconet Hosts Capacity Building Awareness Programmes

New Delhi, 2021 Dec 03 Bosconet India has organized one-day orientation programmes across India for Civil Society Organizations (CSO's) to promote awareness and assist the weaker sections of society, to avail their entitlements and welfare schemes in the last two months. The sessions were for selected 'Training of Trainers (TOTs) and CSOs in the following cities: Chennai and Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, Aurangabad, Maharashtra and Delhi and Goa.  Read More »
Madhuri Isaacs

Don Bosco School, Kokar Joins Don Bosco Green Alliance
New Delhi, 2021 Dec 02 Keeping the spirit of the Don Bosco Green Alliance alive, 500 students of the Senior Secondary classes of Don Bosco School, Kokar, Ranchi planted 500 rose plants. They participated actively in the programme under the supervision and guidance of the Principal, Father Babu Varghese and Preet Prakash. The awareness programme organized in the school has sensitized the students about ecology and their role in collaborating with God as part of Eco-spirituality. They have decided to be a new generation of environmentally committed citizens.  Read More »
Thoombalan Babu Varghese

Village Hosts Concert in Memory of Italian Missionary
Kolkata, 2021 Dec 02 A rural mission village in Darjeeling Hills hosted a two-hour open-air concert in memory of mission founder Father Luigi Jellici featuring orchestra pieces and cultural dances on November 28, 2021. Dhajea Busty mission, which hosted the event, was started in the 1990s by Father Jellici, the founder of Don Bosco Mirik mission in 1995.  Read More »
C.M. Paul

Italian Missionary's Statue Unveiled
Kolkata, 2021 Dec 02 At the Silver Jubilee of Don Bosco Church Mirik, the only Catholic Church in the hill tourist town, a life-size statue to its pioneer Italian missionary Father Luigi Jellici was unveiled on November 27, 2021. Salesian Father Luigi Jellici started a mission in Sonada in 1963 reached Mirik in 1995. He set up a school and Don Bosco chapel, which has grown into a high school catering to Nepali children of local tea gardens up to class 12.  Read More »
C.M. Paul

Adieu Father Dominic Veliath, A Gentle Genius, Friendly Formator and Pragmatic Professor
Bangalore, 2021 Nov 28 Father Dominic Veliath SDB, aged 79, passed away on November 27, 2021. He had multiple health issues for a few months and was in palliative care. The funeral rites will be at Kristu Jyoti College, Bangalore, on Monday, November 29, 2021, at 10.30 am.  Read More »
Father Jude Pooppana SDB

Legendary Salesian Educator Father Joseph Murphy Remembered
Tirupathur, 2021 Nov 23 ''After taking six wickets, sure of his team's victory, he collapsed on the pitch, thus ending his brief but glorious innings of 51 years on this earth. We can imagine him walking right into the celestial pavilion with his head held high and a charming smile playing on his lips. And the heavenly stadium resounding with the sound of angels cheering him and accompanying him to the victory stand,'' said Father KJ Louis SDB, at the gathering to pay tribute on the 50 Death Anniversary of Father Joseph Murphy, an outstanding educator and loyal son of Don Bosco. The Salesian Community of Sacred Heart College, Tirupathur and friends of Father Murphy gathered on November 14, 2021, to remember and pay tributes to him on the 50th anniversary of death.  Read More »
Father Sathinathan Thomas SDB

Salesian Province of Bangalore Launches DREAM Project
Bangalore, 2021 Nov 22 To raise awareness among youngsters and children on the consequences of drug abuse and digital addiction, BREADS (Bangalore Rural Education And Development Society), the development office of the Salesian Province of Bangalore, launched the DREAM (Drug Rehabilitation Education And Mentoring) project on November 20, 2021, at Don Bosco Vaduthala, the Valdocco of Bangalore Province. The DREAM Project was inaugurated and launched by Nelson, Joint Excise Commissioner of Crime Branch, Ernakulam. FatherJose Koyickal, Provincial, Bangalore Province, released the logo.  Read More »
Bastin Nellissery

Himalayan Mission Centre Celebrates Christ the King
Kolkata, 2021 Nov 22 Samthar, the most recent Salesian mission in the Kalimpong hills situated some 5,250 ft above sea level in the rugged hill terrain, held the Eucharistic procession and celebrated the feast of Christ the King on November 21, 2021.  Read More »
Wilma Lepcha

South Asia Social communication and Mission Delegates Meet
Panjim, 2021 Nov 18 The Social Communications and Mission Delegates of South Asia met online on November 15 and 16, 2021, to work together and communicate Jesus today through the dynamics of culture in the digital environment. The General Councillor for Social Communication, Father Gildasio Mendes and General Councillor for Salesian Missions, Father Alfred Maravilla, were present.  Read More »
Francis Xavier