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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Salesians of Don Bosco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood" [1].
The Salesians of Don Bosco are headed by a rector major and the society's general council; each of the ninety-four geographical provinces is headed by a provincial.
Salesians are also active in publishing and other public communication activities, as well as mission work, especially in Asia, Africa, and South America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salesian_Society   (418 words)

  
 Salesians of Don Bosco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesians' charter describes the society's as "the Christian perfection of its associates by the exercise of spiritual and corporal of charity towards the young especially the and the education of boys to the [1] (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13398b.htm).
The death of Bosco in 1888 did not slow the order's growth by 1911 the Salesians were established throughout the including China India South Africa Tunisia and the United States.
Salesian communities operate inter alia shelters for homeless or at-risk youths; technical vocational and language instruction centers for and adults; and boys' clubs and community Salesians are also active in publishing and public communication activities as well as mission work especially in Asia.
www.freeglossary.com /Salesians   (449 words)

  
 Salesians in Japan
Here the youngsters are followed up personally, and the kindness they receive from the Salesians and those who work with them does much to heal their psychological scars.
These are the poor youngsters of Japan: they have plenty in the line of food and entertainment, but the lack of affection and understanding weakens their character and creates a powerful obstacle to normal human growth and development.
Despite the difficulty of the mission in Japan, Salesians of the Japanese Province have been working for the last two years in the mission parish of Tetere, 35 km.
www.salesians.org.uk /html/salesians_in_japan.html   (1040 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Salesian Society
In 1887 the first house was opened in Austria at Trent, and in the same year the Salesians established themselves at Battersea in London, England, and a large band of missionaries was sent to Ecuador.
Although the real object of the Salesian Society is the Christian education of the young, especially of the poorer and middle classes, it does not refuse any work of charity for which it has suitable members.
The order obtains its support largely from the generosity of the Salesian co-operators, who, as a third order, contribute largely for this purpose, and to whom the "Salesian Bulletin" is sent monthly, to keep them informed on the progress of the work in distant lands, and to urge them to greater generosity.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13398b.htm   (1379 words)

  
 Salesians of Don Bosco - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13398b.htm.
Louis School, Hong Kong: A short history written for the golden jubilee of Salesian administration, October 1st, 1977
The venerable Don Bosco,: Founder of the Salesian Society and the Daughters of our Lady Help of Christians,
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /salesian_society.htm   (458 words)

  
 Frank Nugent Story
Gallagher, the Salesians would not release her from the confidentiality agreement that went with the $250,000 settlement they paid her in 1998.
It was from the Salesians' regional vice provincial himself, and it was an abject apology, the first Ms.
Gallagher and several of her old friends, Father Nugent used his position as financial director of the Salesians' Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, N.J., to serve as an all-purpose enabler for a group of wayward, mostly poor teenagers from the nearby town of Waldwick, including the Gallaghers.
faculty.uml.edu /sgallagher/nugent.htm   (1187 words)

  
 History  - Arrival Of Salesians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The chief instruments in bringing the Salesians to India were the bishops of the Padroado diocese of Mylapore.
Louis Mathias, a French Salesian, then working in Sicily as Rector of the Salesian House of Catania, was chosen as their leader.
The phenomenal growth of Salesian works in northeast India in the fifties led to the division of the province of Calcutta in 1959, giving rise to the province of Guwahati, with Fr.
www.donboscomumbai.org /history_arrival.asp   (1436 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
ROME, JUNE 21, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Salesians have issued a warning about a negative newspaper campaign targeted at religious congregations and orders in the United States.
The Salesian statement said that the newspaper asserted that religious involved in cases of sexual abuse of minors "are systematically moved from one country to another to remove them from judicial investigations."
"Insofar as the Salesian congregation is concerned, it is emphasized that this does not correspond to the truth," the statement affirmed.
www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55673   (354 words)

  
 Salesians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Salesian School is part of the wider Salesian community in this country.
It is the privilege of the Salesians founded by Don Bosco to continue his work for young people who are poor, wherever they may be.
The Salesians are to be found working throughout the world, in every continent, thousands of Priests, Brothers and Sisters who in turn have inspired huge numbers of people just like ourselves.
www.salesian.surrey.sch.uk /salesian/text.htm   (1031 words)

  
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Salesian officials in Costa Rica and Chile are facing criminal complaints, accused of protecting priests who were shuffled across international borders.
Salesians officials in Peru say they don't know where he is, but The News found him working in Mexico — his fourth country he's been in since he was first accused of misconduct more than a decade ago.
She complained in writing to the Salesians in 1992 and drew a scolding from the order's regional leader at the time, the Rev. Julian Fox.
www.dallasnews.com /s/nationworld/worldprint/061904ccjrpriestabuse.27ac5164d.html   (2312 words)

  
 Salesians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesian Society, also known as the Salesians of Don Bosco, is a Catholic organization started by St. John Bosco.
The Salesian Society represents the group which Don Bosco personally established to launch new approaches in new initiatives for the education of youth.
The Salesians can be found worldwide in many different initiatives on behalf of young people: schools, oratories, youth centers, technical and professional training centers, parishes, foreign missions, and activities in the realm of mass media and social communications.
www.sbgcc.org /salesians.htm   (613 words)

  
 Salesians of Don Bosco -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood".
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The society continues to operate worldwide; in 1995, it counted more than 17,000 members in 1,616 houses.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/salesians_of_don_bosco.htm   (313 words)

  
 About Salesian Brothers and Priests
Today the Salesians serve in over 120 countries and number 17, 000 members, the second largest community of men in the Catholic Church.
Salesians are not really bachelors, but we do live for the sake of Jesus Christ and his Gospel.
The Salesians divide the world into 108 ministerial areas called Provinces." Here in the United States there are two provinces: The Eastern Province with headquarters in New Rochelle, New York, and the Western Province with headquarters in San Francisco, California.
salesianym.org /vocation/about_salesians.htm   (486 words)

  
 Salesians of Don Bosco UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesians of Don Bosco UK (‘the Charity’) was registered as a Charity in 1964 and has as its object the advancement of the religious and other charitable work of the Roman Catholic Religious Order, known as the British Province of the Society of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
The Inquiry was informed that the leader of the Mission had, from his assignment to Liberia in 1992 and since his appointment as leader of the Mission in 1997, promoted a wide range of initiatives aimed at the relief of suffering and dereliction in Liberia, a country torn apart by civil war.
The trustees reconsidered the level of the Charity’s financial support of the Salesian community in Liberia and set a revised, lower budget considered to be sufficient for normal costs for the purposes of the Mission.
www.charitycommission.gov.uk /investigations/inquiryreports/sales.asp   (2361 words)

  
 SALESIANS OF DON BOSCO - F.A.Q.
To be a ‘Salesian of Don Bosco’ means to belong to a Catholic organization of men who dedicate their entire lives to God through a generous service to young people, especially those who are poorer and disadvantaged.
The Salesian Brother,like the Salesian Priest, takes the three vows of obedience, poverty and chastity, lives in community with his fellow Salesians, and engages in the same mission to the young, modelling his life on Christ the Good Shepherd and making the example and educational system of Don Bosco his own.
The Salesian Priest, like the Salesian Brother,takes the three vows of obedience, poverty and chastity, lives in community with his fellow Salesians, and engages in the same mission to the young modelling his life on Christ the Good Shepherd and making the example and educational system of Don Bosco his own.
www.sdb.org /ENG/SottoSezioni/_2_9_12_.htm   (2065 words)

  
 The Salesians of Don Bosco, South Africa - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesian Society was established in Italy by Father Giovanni Bosco (popularly known as Don Bosco) in 1859 in response to the poverty and desperation experienced by youth in his home town of Turin.
The Salesians are the third largest order in the Catholic Church, peopled by some 17,000 priests and brothers and 17,000 sisters and have spread to most countries in the world.
In Southern Africa, the Salesians operate in South Africa (the Western Cape and Gauteng), Swaziland and Lesotho, organising crèches, youth centres, schools and craft classes.
www.salesians.org.za /index.php   (283 words)

  
 LOCAL NEWS: STORY | Samoa Observer Online: The Information Portal of Samoa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The allegations are against Father Jack Ayers by a former pupil of the Salesians’ Rupertswood boarding school in Victoria.
Claims by Salesian old boys that they were sexually brutalised by a few priests and brothers have rocked the order and sent its Australian leadership into a bunker, The Age said.
A former head of the Salesians in Australia, Father Murphy is being investigated by the Government here over his witnessing of Father Klep’s visa application.
www.samoaobserver.ws /news/local/ln0704/0407ln004.htm   (896 words)

  
 Salesians in Ireland
A Salesian has remained as chaplain to the school, and lives in the gate lodge.
This is the Provincial House of the Salesians in Ireland.
Some of the Salesians in the house work as curates in the local parish of St. Agnes, one priest is a full-time prison chaplain, and others operate in various ministries including writing, administration, and the promotion of basic Christian communities.
homepage.eircom.net /~sdbmedia/salesians/sdb_irl.htm   (483 words)

  
 Newly Professed Samoan Salesians
The Mass was conducted by Fr Provincial, Ian Murdoch of the Australian Salesian Province, and assisted by Fr John Murphy, rector of the Salesians in Samoa and Fr Mika Leilua, director of the novitiate program in Samoa.
Fr Provincial was very happy to receive these new confreres into the Salesians Congregation and he stressed in his homily the significance of the vows which the new confreres have professed.
He thanked their parents, families and friends, fellow Salesians and the novice director for his patience and tolerance, which enabled the young Salesians to be professed and achieve this challenging step in their journey.
www.donbosco.asn.au /Bulletins/2004/mar/npss.htm   (422 words)

  
 Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The purpose of the Salesian Boys and Girls Club is to give direction and guidance to young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged, by surrounding them with a wholesome environment and providing opportunities for educational, physical, social and moral development.
The Salesian Boys and Girls Club is operated by the Salesian Society and by a Board of Directors, consisting of members of the community.
The Salesians are a society of priests and brothers founded in 1859 by St. John Bosco in Turin, Italy.
www.eastboston.com /Moved1226/salesian.htm   (913 words)

  
 ISISA Charities - The Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians have been running projects in Southern Africa for a hundred years and in that time they have established themselves in the Western Cape, Gauteng, Swaziland and Lesotho.
The Salesians run a mission station in Maputsoe complete with primary schools and high school.
The Salesian Sisters run Primary School and a training centre for girls when the need to earn income outweighs the need to learn.
www.isisa.co.za /isisa/salesian/default.htm   (651 words)

  
 Global Catholic News - Salesians Bracing for Closure of Refugee Camps in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan, APRIL 25, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A U.N. official's decision to close 15 refugee camps by September is prompting the Salesians to step up their own relief efforts.
Father Peter Zago, a Salesian working in the camps, said that "the aim of the United Nations is to facilitate their return to their own country."
The Salesians are offering the children three hours of schooling in the morning and a meal.
www.catholic.net /global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?news_id=52573&channel_id=2   (444 words)

  
 Salesians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Salesians are a modern religious society of priests and brothers founded in 1859 by St. John Bosco to reach out to poor and needy youth.
The Salesian Society was given permanent status within the Catholic Church in 1874.
Further, those young people who are involved with the salesians as animators are invited to a "faith walk" from St. Paul's Grotto to Bingemma (a place in the countryside) where they celebrate a youthful open-air Eucharist; Last year's event was quite successful.
www.aboutmalta.com /grazio/salesian.html   (956 words)

  
 Salesians of Don Bosco bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The death of Bosco in 1886 did not slow the order's growth, and by 1911 the Salesians were established throughout the world, including China, India, South Africa, Tunisia, and the United States.
The society continues to operate worldwide; in 1995, it counted more than 17,000 members in 1,616 houses [1].
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www.elexi.de /en/s/sa/salesians_of_don_bosco.html   (622 words)

  
 Agenzia Fides - ASIA/SRI LANKA - Salesians open a new community in northern Sri Lanka for years the centre of cruel ...
One initiative is a new mission which the Salesians in Sri Lanka have decided to open in the north.
Father Anthony Humer Pinto, the new superior of the Salesian province in Sri Lanka, has reached an agreement with Bishop Joseph Rayappu of Mannar, for Salesians to collaborate with pastoral work in the parish of Murunkan.
The first Salesian centre was opened in Sri Lanka some 50 years ago by Father Heri Remery who came from the Salesian community in Chennai in India.
www.fides.org /eng/news/2004/0409/17_3097.html   (424 words)

  
 Press Release
Cases of sexual misconduct by individual Salesians are handled by the respective province to which the Salesian belongs.
We stand in solidarity with the victims of sexual abuse, considering it "one of the worst manifestations of the mystery of iniquity at work in the world" (John Paul II), and we provide for psychological accompaniment of the victims and, when necessary, their families.
When a member of the Salesian Congregation is found to have committed sexual abuse, he is removed at once from every pastoral and educative responsibility so that he has no further contact with minors.
www.donboscowest.org /news/press_release.htm   (601 words)

  
 >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Salesians in Chennai: “People are helping, the government is slow”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Salesians have been present in Chennai — formerly called Madras — for more than 60 years.
After the disaster wrought by the tsunami, they opened their St.Bede home to take in displaced and homeless people: “We welcome everyone without distinction based on religion, whoever is in need is welcomed”.
Salesians are also present in the southern Andaman Islands, the region which suffered the worst destruction in this disaster.
www.asianews.it /view_p.php?l=en&art=2224   (425 words)

  
 Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco Eastern Province - Links
As part of the Salesian Society – a Catholic religious order – the Salesian Missions helps to spread God’s love and concern for children and the poor in over 120 countries.
Founded in 1938, Villa Madonna School is a private, Catholic elementary school established to serve the needs of children from pre-kindergarten to grade 8 through the direction of the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco.
The Salesian Family is a spiritual movement in the Catholic Church.
www.salesiansisters.org /links.html   (343 words)

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