If Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was the voice of Catholics in America on television and radio, Bishop Arulselvam Rayappan is the voice of Catholics in Tamil Nadu on YouTube. Speaking to the Salesians working in the Diocese, the newly Ordained Bishop of Salem invited them to be harbingers of New Media. He asked them to encourage young people to use media for evangelization and catechesis. The Bishop met the Salesians working in the Diocese on August 18, 2021.. Read More »

The Salesian Province of Annai Velankanni, Tiruchy, is blessed with seven newly ordained priests: Benjamin James, Christopher Susai, Anantharaj Santhanam, Arockiaraj Irudayaraj, Danistanraj Iruthayadhason, Richard Vivek Kumar and David Antony. Most Rev. Antony Pappusamy DD, Archbishop of Madurai, ordained the candidates to the priesthood. They will work on the mission for the young and the needy in various capacities in the province. . Read More »

The Salesian province of Tiruchy welcomes the 41 new Salesian Co-operators as they made their apostolic promise, after months of formation and preparation. . Read More »

On 27 & 28 February 2021, 'Sola Rolling Trophy Football Tournament' was organized by post-novitiate formation house The Retreat, Yercaud, for the poor youth of Shervaroy hills. . Read More »

Yercaud, India (INT): The two prestigious and people centred organizations: Shevaroyhills Tribal Development Institute (STDi) a wing of SPS INDIA FOUNDATION, The Retreat - Don Bosco, Yercaud and Jugend Eine Welt (JEW) inaugurated their Project CALLS 2.0 (COVID19 Alternative Livelihood and Living Services). This is their second intervention during the time of COVID19 to give alternative livelihood for the tribals of Yercaud. The project will train 80 persons in nursery plant growing and generate income with a stipend of standard daily wage during the training. . Read More »

With deepest sorrow we communicate that Father Louis Kulangara, age 76, passed away at 06.15 am on 04 November 2020, due to massive cordiac arrest and lungs failure. . Read More »

In the continuing COVID-19 lockdown, the marginalised poor daily-wage earning families have lost their livelihood, filled with frustration and anxiety without food, not knowing how to cope up with the current situation. The Salesians of Don Bosco Tiruchy [INT] are reaching out to stranded migrants, tribals, home-maids, health-sanitary workers, abandoned elders, and the visually impaired, providing groceries, food packets, medicines and health sanitary materials. . Read More »

The Salesian Province of Tiruchy [INT] has undertaken various COVID-19 relief measures. In addition to all the relief works rendered in response to the global pandemic, the Salesians appreciated,honoured, and disbursed grocery-provisions for the health-sanitation task force of the Tiruchy Municipal Corporation. . Read More »

The Retreat, the post-novitiate house of the Salesian Province of Tiruchy [INT] at Yercaud, continues to reach out to the most deserving senior citizens and tribal families in the Yercaud Hills. Having identified 225 families in 15 tribal villages, the young Salesian scholastics are making further inroads to reach out to the most deserving in need. . Read More »

We shall all be judged with our relationship with the poor, says Pope Francis, and he urges us ''it is time to reach out to those suffering and those in need.'' Heeding his call, The Retreat-Yercaud has reached out to the poorest, the entire week during COVID-19 lockdown. . Read More »