New Rochelle, NY – National Volunteer Week seeks to highlight the good works provided by volunteers and the organizations and causes served. Most people think of volunteering as a morning helping out at a soup kitchen, stuffing envelopes once a month at their churches, or delivering hot meals to the elderly once a week. All …
(ANS – Addis Ababa) – Last weekend the Salesian vice province of Ethiopia-Eritrea (AET) held two significant events connected with youth: a refresher course for Salesians and a meeting of young volunteers involved in the vice province. On April 16 and 17, 23 Salesians met at Addis Ababa for a refresher course on youth ministry, …
Over the course of its 20+ year history, the Salesian Lay Missioner (SLM) program has had countless blessings. It has seen over 350 men and women, young and old, from all backgrounds, be transformed after spending one year, two years, and in some instances three years, working alongside the Salesians in countless ministries. Most often …
(ANS – Port-au-Prince) – The efforts of the Salesians to deal with the emergency and the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake continue. Further progress was made at a meeting, April 10-13, of mission offices and NGOs at Port-au-Prince as a follow-up to the meeting in Rome on March 27 at which support for Haiti’s …
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