Bosco Youth Karnataka organized Hospet Zonal Convention at Chithra Don Bosco on March 13 & 14, 2021, with the theme BOSCO YOUTH FOR CHANGE. Sixty-seven young people from the Salesian communities of Chitradurga, Davangere, Hospet and Tumkur in Bangalore participated in the convention. . Read More »

A seven-day Scouts and Guides Adult Leadership Training for the students of Master of Social Work at the Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, was flagged off on March 4, 2021. The future social workers were empowered to be committed leaders in society. . Read More »

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.. Read More »

Fr Mathew Thekkekara (TV Mathew), 74, died on March 1 at Mamma Margaret Home, Aluva, due to Cardiac Respiratory Arrest was laid to rest in Don Bosco Bhavan Mannuthy cemetery on March 4. Rt. Rev Tony Neelankavil, Auxiliary Bishop of Thrissur Arch Diocese, officiated the funeral service in the first part and Fr Jose Koyickal, Provincial with Mass and final rites. . Read More »

The 37th SPCSA Council met at Don Bosco Provincial House Bangalore on 25th -26th February 2021. . Read More »

In gratitude to God, Our Blessed Mother and Don Bosco, Fr Jose Koyickal took over the reins of the Province from Fr Joyce (Mathew) Thonikuzhiyil as the eighth provincial of the Sacred Heart Province of Bangalore during the Eucharistic celebration presided over by Fr Biju Michael, Councilor for the South Asia Region on February 11, 2021. . Read More »

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. . Read More »

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.. Read More »

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. . Read More »

The Planning and Development Organisation (PDO; BREADS Bangalore) of the Province of Bangalore, to provide clarity through relevant policies to accomplish its goals, has drafted and released the Child Safeguarding Policies (CSPs) as supportive references for child-related sectors in the Province. The CSPs are for various sectors in the Province like childcare institutions, social work centres, schools, colleges, skill training centres, parishes, aspirantates, pre-novitiate, novitiate, philosophates, and the theologate.. Read More »