The Continental Meeting of Vocation Directors and Formators in Africa - Initial Formation was held in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 7 - 12 July 2025. The theme of the meeting: ‘Basic Formation a…

On Saturday, July 12, 2025, the 1st Continental Ongoing Formation Course began. Sixteen confreres gathered at the Regional House (Domus) in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, comin…

On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Brasília, Brazil, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), the new magazine "Missão & Culturas" was officially launched. This publication aims…

"Today, July 8, 2025, the Diocese of Makeni celebrates the 75th anniversary—or Diamond Jubilee—of the presence and pastoral service of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone. This historic celebra…

The website of the Xaverian Delegation in the Philippines - https://philippines.xaverians.org/ - has published some reflections on the catechumenate experience at St. Francis Xavier Parish, by member…

The Philippines is the world's second-largest producer of nickel, after Indonesia. However, nickel mining—critical for producing electric vehicle batteries and various types of stainless steel—presen…

On Saturday, July 12, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Motherhouse in Parma, Italy, our confrere, Fr. Alberto Damiano Lanaro, passed away after a long illness. Fr. Alberto was 84 years old, having been born…

On Saturday, July 19th, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., in Kayogoro Parish, Diocese of Rutana, Burundi, our confrere Pie Niyibizi will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands and the prayer of ordinati…

The biographical sketch of the late Fr. Eulogio Cuéllar Muñoz (d. April 4th, 2025 in Carabanchel, Madrid – Spain) has been uploaded to the website of the General Direction. Many thanks to the editor…

As already announced on FLASH (April 15th issue), https://dg.saveriani.org/es/comunicazioni/notizie/sxaverianews/item/while-preparing-indirizzario-2025-address-book-2025, the deadline set for communi…

In a bare jail cell in Kumamoto Prison, Kyushu, Japan, I recently celebrated the baptism of a 50-year-old lifer. Due to anti-Covid restrictions, there was only me, the inmate and a guard present at t…

On Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025, Pope Leo XIV’s Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation was released. Theme of the message: “Seeds of Peace and Hope.” Pope Leo writes: “…in va…

The Pontifical Commission for Latin America has chaired a Symposium of the Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), the federation of the Bishops’ Conferences of Asia (FABC), and the Bi…

There are those who call for peace and those who actually prepare and build it by interweaving justice, food and fraternity. In this spirit, the 8th edition of Altri Mondi (Different Worlds) filled w…

The book "Chercher Dieu du regard, en l'autre. Une lecture théologique des écrits de Christian de Chergé" (Academic Press, Fribourg), written by our confrere Paolo Tovo, has been published. The volu…

On Monday, July 07th, 2025, at 5.15 p.m., our confrere Fr. Bartolomeo (Meo) Elia, 89, passed away at the Mother House, Parma, Italy. Fr. Bartolomeo was born on March 17th, 1936, in Villafranca Piemon…

On Sunday, July 6th, 2025, at 10:30 a.m., seven young confreres will make their first religious and missionary profession in the Chapel of the Novitiate, in Bintaro, Jakarta, Indonesia. Right now, a…

On Sunday, June 29, 2025, the students of the Theology community in Kinshasa were instituted in the ministry of Lectors and Acolytes. The confreres of the 2nd Year of Theology MURHABAZI BASABANYA Glo…

Our community in Franklin, Wisconsin, held its annual Two-day Mission Festival. This year the event fell on June 21-22, Saturday and Sunday. The purpose of the celebration is Mission Awareness ad gen…

On Thursday, June 26th, 2025, at the Institute Catholique de Paris, France, our confrere Fr. Simon Pierre Oum Oum discussed his MA dissertation (Mémoire) in Moral and Spiritual Theology. Title of his…

Pope Francis claimed that a “third world war in pieces” is raging. Now it seems that those pieces are coming together, and, as a result, the sound of guns is becoming more and more deafening. Despite…

The website of the Xaverian Italian region, www.saveriani.it, has posted an article by our confrere Fr. Luciano Mazzocchi under the title “L’inchino del Ministro della cultura del Giappone alla chies…

On 8 June 2025, our confrere Fr. Rocco Viviano was invited to speak at an international, interreligious conference titled ‘Dialogic Human Dignity: Legal and Religious Perspectives’. The event, held i…

“There is enough money for weapons, but not enough for food, shelter, medicine and education. Discrimination, inequality and manipulation of human beings are against the covenant in the blood of Jesu…

The recently signed agreement between the University of Salento (Lecce - Italy) and the Pontifical Gregorian University, which activates a curriculum for a double degree in philosophy, will become ef…

Dear confreres, Following the recommendations of the 18th General Chapter, N° 95, we, superiors of the Xaverian Circumscriptions in Africa, met in Bafoussam, Cameroon, from June 15 to 22, 2025 at th…

On Friday, June 27th, 2025, Fr. Mauro Loda returned directly to Rome from Yaoundé, Cameroon, where, along with Superior General Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez and General Councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehez…

On Sunday, June 29th, 2025, General Councillor Fr. Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto will head to Thailand to take part in the Ongoing Formation Meeting for young confreres who have already been engaged…

On Monday, June 30th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., twenty young men from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Mozambique, will make their first Religious and Missionary profession in t…

On June 30, 2025, during a Eucharistic celebration that will be presided over by our Superior General, Fr. Fernando Garcia Rodriguez, at the parish of Kamenge/Bujumbura, 20 novices will make their fi…

Last June 18, 2025, our confrere Fr. Carl Chudy was interviewed by the local Catholic TV in Massachusetts on the Jubilee of Hope since our Shrine – Our Lady of Fatima was designated as the Pilgrim Ce…

The 2024–2025 pastoral year of the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi has been centered on the figure of Blessed Albert Joubert, “obedient and faithful to the Church, humble and available.” Among the various…

The 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea makes us wonder whether the heresy fought then is still present among Christians. Our confrere Fr. Fabrizio Tosolini offers, in the “Scambi”, a brief r…

The Centre for Latin-American Missionary Studies (Centro de Estudos Missionários Latino-Americano, or CEMLA) has published issue no. 12 of its CADERNOS. The cover displays the image of the Poster fo…

The journal Sequela Christi, published by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, has published an article of our confrere Louis Birabaluge Hakizimwami entit…

“Xaverian presence in Africa at a time of great changes. Which paths of hope?” is the theme of the second African Cosuma convened in Bafossam, Cameroon. This meeting is attended by the Major Superior…

On 1 June 2025, our confrere Fr. Rocco Viviano s.x. was invited to give a lecture at the General Assembly of the Japan Catholic Medical Association in Osaka on ‘The Place of Interreligious Dialogue i…

The beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, the martyr of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a moment of encounter eagerly awaited by many ecclesial communities from Congo, B…

A weekend of missionary awareness organized by the Mission Awareness Ministry of the Diocese of Novaliches was held in the Mission Area of San Pedro Calungsod, Payatas, on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday…

In the academic year 2025-2026, Professor Fr. Angelo Manfredi (author of Guido Maria Conforti, 1865-1931. EMI: Bologna, 2010) is going to offer a new course (3 credits – ECTS, for the duration of 75…

On Wednesday June 11th, 2025, at the Institute Catholique de Paris, France, our confrere Fr. Paulin Shadari Tutu discussed the ‘Mémoire’ to obtain his Master’s degree in Educational Sciences (MEEF: M…

During the week, two events saw the participation of our confrere Tiziano Tosolini sx. The first concerned the Japanese Film Festival held in Florence on June 7, 2025, during which the film “The Bell…

On Sunday, June 15th, 2025, at about 2:30 a.m., after a serious illness, our confrere Fr. Franco Romano Manganello, 87, passed away at the Xaverian house in Salerno, Italy, while being attended by th…

On Saturday, June 14th, 2025, in the chapel of the Novitiate Community, Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico, our confrere Rafael Aguilar Flores will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands and th…

Dear Confreres, Warm greetings from the General Council. I write to you on behalf of the General Direction to announce the organization of the Conference on the Human Face of the Xaverian. This Con…

In order to spread knowledge about and love for the gift of the 4 martyrs’ beatification that took place in Uvira, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on August 18th, 2024, our confrere Fr. Giusepp…

On Sunday, June 15th, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, Rome, the Beatification of the martyr Floribert Bwana Chui will be held. The celebration will be presided over…

An activity typical of Shinmeizan as a "House of Prayer" is a monthly retreat open to all, including non-Christians, that has been organised since 1996. The retreat begins at 10:00 a.m. with a medita…

One hundred years ago, on March 12th, 1925, Bishop Conforti conducted a canonical recognition in Parma of St. Mark’s relics, a martyr of the first Christian centuries, who is buried in the Roman cata…

On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at 8.30 p.m. at the San Cristo – Church complex, via Piamarta 9, Brescia, the journal ‘Missione Oggi’ hosted the actor and director Elio Germano who performed a scenic re…