1416 Don Bosco Feast to be celebrated in Bangladesh
austraLasia 1416
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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