Dancing feet bring smiles to rural children

Chennai, Apr 16 In a striking gesture of solidarity Don Bosco Matriculation School and Don Bosco School of Excellence, Egmore donated Rs.25 Lakhs to the school children of St. Joseph High School, Pavunjur in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu. The fund, collected from the Charity Dance show DOBODA Season-3, held in January 2014, will be utilized to give scholarships, to build classrooms and laboratories to upgrade the rural school to Higher Secondary status.  Read More »
KUMPILUVELIL Louis

Don Bosco IMAGE shines at Catholic Festival in Poland
Bangalore, Apr 15 Don Bosco IMAGE is once again being recognized at the oldest annual International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in Poland. The films got the recognition out of 160 movies, from 23 countries among the Short-Film category. The films selected from Don Bosco IMAGE are Beyond (Short Film 15 min,) and Feliz Navidad (Short Film 27 min,). This 29th International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival will be held at Niepokalanow from 23 to 25 May 2014.  Read More »
CHOONDAL Gilbert

Salesians Release a CD on Child-Rights in Bangalore
Bangalore, Apr 14 BREADS (Bangalore Rural. Educational and Development Society), a social project of the Salesians of Bangalore Province, has just released a Kannada CD that contained songs on Child-Rights. Minchu, the title of the CD, contains ten Kannada songs related to children and their rights. Four of the composers are Salesians from the province of Bangalore: Fr. Regi, Fr. Jesudas, Fr. Jude Anand, and Fr. Varghese CP.  Read More »
CHOONDAL Gilbert

GC27: Ringside Views & News - 20: A NEW CAPTAIN TAKES OVER! The Chapter Concludes
Kolkata, Apr 13 . ROME: The 27th General Chapter concluded this morning (12 April)with Ángel Fernández Artime taking over as Captain of the Congregation. An era has passed over into history and another is beginning!  Read More »
Antony EARATHARA

LOUDER - TOGETHER: Theme of the International Day for Street Children
Hyderabad, Apr 12 On the occasion of the International Day for Street Children (12th April) Don Bosco Navajeevan homes in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh) organized for the first time a programme for children living on the streets specially in the premises of railway stations in collaboration with the South Central Railways, Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police of Secunderabad and Kachiguda Railway Stations.  Read More »
Bellamkonda Sudhakar

GC 27: Ringside Views & News - 19: BREGOLIN HAILS THE MIRACLE OF DON BOSCO`S PRESENCE IN SOUTH ASIA
Kolkata, Apr 12 . ROME: Today (11/4), the penultimate day of the 27th General Chapter, it was the turn of Fr. Adriano Bregolin, the erstwhile Vicar of Pascual Chavez, to accept the invitation of the South Asia delegation and celebrate Mass for us.  Read More »
Antony EARATHARA

GC-27: Ringside Views and News - 18: PASCUAL CHAVEZ CHALLENGES SOUTH ASIAN SALESIANS TO DREAM BIG
Kolkata, Apr 11 . ROME: Fr. Pascual Chavez, Rector Major Emeritus, was invited to preside at the Eucharist this morning (9/4/14) by the South Asia region. Chavez expressed his happiness in being able to celebrate together with the Salesians from South Asia. He said that he remembers very fondly the various experiences he had during his many visits to the region. He then began challenging the South Asian Salesians on a number of points.  Read More »
Antony EARATHARA

GC 27: Ringside Views and News - 17 : RECTOR MAJOR CELEBRATES WITH SOUTH ASIA DELEGATION
Kolkata, Apr 09 . ROME: Each day this week the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, along with the four Sector Councillors, joins one of the regions for the morning Eucharist. Today (Tuesday, 8th April) it was the turn of the South Asia region to have the Rector Major presiding over the Eucharist. The four sector councilors - Fr. Ivo Coelho (Formation), Fr. Fabio Attard (Youth Pastoral), Fr. Filiberto Gonzalez (Social Communications), and Br. Jean Paul Muller (Economer General) joined him.  Read More »
Antony EARATHARA

GC 27: Ringside Views and News - 16: RADICAL? Not So Far! But May be Yet!!
Kolkata, Apr 06 . ROME: After the excitement of the election of the new General Council, and the private audience with Pope Francis, the Chapter members went back to drafting and discussion of the Chapter theme document. Members have been divided into five Commissions. Three of this work on the Chapter theme and one is the Juridical Commission which examines various proposals from the Provinces and individuals and brings for discussion and voting to the Assembly the Commission`s own proposals based on these. A Drafting Committee had also been formed some weeks ago. This Committee had drawn up preliminary drafts of the Listening, Interpretation and Way Forward sections.  Read More »
Antony EARATHARA

DB Varsity launches MA in convergent media
Guwahati, Apr 06 Guwahati: Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) in northeast India is launching for the first time an MA degree program in Convergent Media and Technologies.  Read More »
VADAKKEKARA Abhilash