austraLasia
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Don Bosco's Feast
to be celebrated in Bangladesh for the first
time
KOLKATA: 30th January 2006 --Two
Kolkata Salesians, Frs Robin Gomes and C M Paul, are leaving early morning 30th
January for Dhaka (Bangladesh) to celebrate the feast of Don Bosco, 31st
January, for the first time at a Don Bosco School and College. The College is at
Uttara Dhaka and is run by a Don Bosco Krishnagar West Bengal Past Pupil, Mr.
Henry Mondol. He was a special participant at one of the annual induction
programmes Fr Paul organized for new Teachers from the Don Bosco Schools in the
Calcutta province ten years ago!
As well as the
solemn Eucharistic celebration to be presided over by Fr Robin who hails from
Attarogram in Bangladesh, they will also screen a half hour Don Bosco Film in
Bengali and conduct one half day orientation programme for the teachers and
another for the senior students. They will also attend the silver jubilee
celebrations of the Radio Veritas Asia, Manila, Bengali Service at Notre Dame
College Dhaka and attend the RVA Council at the Archbishop's House Dhaka., 1-3
February.
Nitika Don Bosco Kolkata
established in 1977 as a Catechetical and Media centre, has been a partner and
pioneer in this Radio Ministry since its inception in 1981. Fr Robin Gomes, the
present Rector of Don Bosco Nitika Calcutta has been on air with his programmes
in the Bengali language for the past 16 years. Currently he hosts a 20 minute
Sunday programme on the Sunday Gospel for listeners who are mostly
Bengali-speaking Muslims and Hindus in India and Bangladesh. The frequent
reports from hundreds of listener clubs established in the numerous villages
across Bengal and Bangladesh is proof of the following that RVA ministry enjoys.
Fr Robin also served two terms as Programme Coordinator and Producer staying in
Manila for 8 years. He also hosts weekly Television programmes in
Bengali.
There are no Don Bosco
Institutions run by SDBs in Bangladesh now, though Salesians were there
before Partition and Independence from India in 1947. Those institutions
and parishes were under the Calcutta province and Krishnagar diocese at the
time.
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