Don Bosco, South Asia

Three Sisters from Asia elected to Daughters of Mary Help of Christians’ Global Team  *  South Asia and East Asia Oceania Publishing Houses Meet  *  Provincial, Prelate, Professor and Cardinal: 4 Salesians at Plenary Council in Australia  *  Sisters turn COVID Warriors and Disaster Management Volunteers  * Young Green Researchers hold Conference  * Student B...

Salesian Sisters Elect 11th Superior General   *  87 New teachers from 7 schools get trained in "Next" Normal for Salesian Educators  *  Mission priests hold spiritual retreat studying post chapter document on Salesian Rector  *  South Asia has 3 youth delegates in Salesian Youth Movement World Council  *  Salesians mark mission centenary with Child Fri...

Salesian Sisters Elect 11th Superior General  * 87 New teachers from 7 schools get trained in "Next" Normal for Salesian Educators  * Mission priests hold spiritual retreat studying post chapter document on Salesian Rector  *  South Asia has 3 youth delegates in Salesian Youth Movement World Council  *  Salesians mark mission centenary with Child Friendly Cities Movem...

Salesians launch International School of Social Communications  *  Polish Ambassador to India visits Bandel historical Marian Shrine  *  Don Bosco College Maram student receives presidential award  *  Evening Class and Tuition Centre starts in Kathmandu  *  Youth Ministry General Councilor meets Don Bosco Tech Team  *  Papua New Guinea holds Salesi...

Salesian Sisters started their 24th General Chapter  *  Don Bosco Institute Launches First Centre of Excellence in Nepal  *  Pandemic makes Salesians visit children’s homes with gifts for Mid-Autumn Festival  * 12th Annual Lecture hosted honouring legendary Italian missionary * Salesian College hosts 10 days training for paramilitary force *  Don Bosco Media Network T...

East Asia Oceania Social Communication School of Formation Inaugurated  *  East Asia Oceania ADMA Congress Concludes  *  Inter Community ecological prayer service launches Season of Creation 2021  *  Lockdown compels post novitiate formation to continue in the Novitiate *  Don Bosco University offers scholarships worth Rs. 40 million  *  DB Green Allian...

7 Salesians in 12 years have 39 candidates in Formation  * Bosconians bring to life Dream of Don Bosco for Oceania * Four Thai alumni in Tokyo Paralympic football for blind   *   Nobel laureate Salesian’s book on 75 years of Don Bosco in East Timor to be released soon * Don Bosco College website gets one million viewers, becomes most referred site for educational resources &nbs...

Salesian Sisters to hold 29th General Chapter  *  Shillong Salesians Launch Cable TV Channel *  Youth hold Ecumenical Prayer to mark Season of Creation *  Brothers return to village youth centres  *  Pandemic or no pandemic, Salesian accompaniment program held for Solomon Island’s youth *  Salesian parish recruits city youth for International Marian Group  *...

In three years Don Bosco Green Alliance has 450 member institutions in 80 countries  *  Online Visual Storytelling Workshop prepares youth for upcoming Don Bosco International film festival   *   Salesian Parish in Tokyo, celebrates 75th profession anniversary of Mission Pioneer  *  Pakistan Learning Centre Celebrates Don Bosco  *   Young migr...

Salesian Intervention Sees Eye Surgery Miracle After 33 Months  *  Goa Salesian gets Biodiversity Award 2021  * Students help restore dilapidated library in remote village *  Book launch marks year of St Joseph  *  WHO site features Salesian College’s Education in Corona times Research  * Lay Association of Mary Help of Christians gets ready for East Asia Oceania...

Visually Impaired Salesian alumni Join Hearts and Open Hands to Help One Another to Fight Covid-19  *  First FMA from Singapore makes first profession in Cambodia  *  New 3 year online Salesianity Course Started  * Educator’s Hub launched in the Philippines  *  Short film festival nurtures hope in Covid times  *  In Kerala, nearly half of the migrant wo...

Myanmar situation is grim   *  Lay Salesians from South Korea plan to help North Korean refugees  *  Bangladesh struggles with monsoon floods and Covid-19   *  New Provincial takes charge in Sri Lanka   *  ADMA Timor Leste preparing for the East Asia Oceania Congress  *  Salesian Sister’s Alumna wins Olympic Bronze * Alumni help educ...

SIGNING OFF Jose Parappully SDB, PhD This is Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand ( sumedhacentre@gmail.com ) signing off with the final edition of Psyche & Soul. In this podcast he lists all the 57 previous podcasts under 8 themes. All these podcasts are available on www.donboscoindia.com webpage a...

Don Bosco Pending Meal Concept sustains Eatery Owners and Needy  * Pre-novices pitch in, to provide food relief to the poor  * Don Bosco Sumba takes giant strides in 20 years  *  Don Bosco Kurla Student Tops in Media Studies at University of Bombay  *  College Students Felicitate City Cleaning Staff  *  College helps four Covid orphan girls   *  Do...

SPIRITUALITY FOR THE POST-MIDLIFE YEARS In this edition of Psyche & Soul,  Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand ( sumedhacentre@gmail.com ) presents some salient features of a spirituality for the post-midlife years. Full text at http://pojose.blogspot.com

North East India marks 100 years of Assam Mission Mandate  *   Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival launched  * Don Bosco Green Alliance plants trees in Lahore  *  Papua New Guinea students create Films of Hope, Faith and Inspiration  *  Bangalore Archdiocese honours 102 Youth Covid Warriors  *  Past Pupil Wins National Literary Award  * &nbsp...

Post Midlife -XIII AGING GRACEFULLY Jose Parappully SDB, PhD In this edition of Psyche & Soul,  Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand ( sumedhacentre@gmail.com ) presents some practices confirmed  by research that help us age gracefully. Full text at http://pojose.blogspot.com

Alumni founder’s biography could be most translated book after the life of Don Bosco  *  Korean Cooperators Apostolate Survey aims to raise quality of youth services  * Solomon Islands Parish commissions 13 lay catechists *  Young people call for responsible users of Social Media * Salesian made member of the Tamilnadu Public Service Commission *. Mumbai Salesians aid over 830,...

Midlife XII ATONEMENT (AT-ONE-MENT) FR JOSE PARAPPULLY SDB In this edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Prappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand ( sumedhacentre@gmail.com ) presents another midlife challenge: namely, atonement, understood as at-one-ment , becoming one, becoming whole. Full text at http://...

The Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary distribute 500 packages of food * Caritas Sisters of Jesus, picket on Seoul city’s streets at least 60 times  * School Children Take Turns Feeding the Poor Near their School *  Don Bosco Youth Centre Shillong offers 40-bed Corona Care facility for women * Salesian promotes mechanised farming in rural Goa, gets 40 farmers to service 4 lakh squa...

MIDLIFE –XI MOVING TOWARD INTEGRITY In this edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand ( sumedhacentre@gmail.com ), presents another midlife challenge: achieving integrity-- that is ability look back over one’s life without regrets and look forward to death without fear...

Student activist surprises Salesian educator  *  Myanmar gets 6 new Salesian priests  *  Cambodia: “Don Bosco Home”: a haven of hope for children at risk *  Past Pupils Celebrate online 150 Years of Foundation, Adopts 15 Covid Orphans  *  Assam Don Bosco University, is first in India to offer STEAM Education  *  Goa: Don Bosco College of Engineering Bag...

MIDLIFE IX: BALANCING THE MASCULINE AND THE FEMININE Jose Parappully SDB, PhD sumedhacentre@gmail.com Hello, this is Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand with another edition of Psyche & Soul. Full text is available at http://pojose.blogspot.com

12th Asia Oceania Past Pupils’ Congress Concluded * New Provincial for Kolkata Salesian Sisters takes charge * Don Bosco reaches out to 68 tribal villages with fully equipped 100 bed Covid Care facility * Kolkata Salesians reach out to slum dwellers  *  Korean Sisters hold weekly public prayer protest for Myanmar  * Fiji Salesians reach out to neighbours with Covid relief

Midlife VIII (Re) Awakening of Sexuality and Intimacy Needs Women’s Experience Jose Parappully SDB, PhD In this edition of Psyche & Soul,  Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand ( sumedhacentre@gmail.com ) presents Women’s’ experience of sexuality and intimacy needs at midlife. Full text at: http...