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…

On Sunday, June 8th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in St. Guido M. Conforti Shrine, Mother House, Parma, our confreres Jan Nahak Valerius, Yohanes Nicholindo Putra Geli Gowin, Didier Aksanti Mulondanyi and Fr…

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…

On Saturday, June 7th, 2025, General Councillor, Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will go to Mexico. His engagements include a participation in the meeting of Ongoing Formation of the American Contin…

On Monday, June 09, 2025, Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Mauro Loda, together with Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T'Chirubuka, will travel to Cameroon to visit the Internation Theology Community in Yaoundé…

On Monday, June 09, 2025, Fr. Fabien Kalehezho T'Chiribuka will travel to Cameroon together with the Superior General and the Vicar General. They will visit the formation community in Yaoundé and the…

On Sunday, June 1st, 2025, at the Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Londrina (Paraná, Brasile), we held the yearly meeting of CoMiPro - Conselhos Missionários Provinciais (Provincial Missionary Councils)…

The first launch weekend of the XAVI – Xaverian International Volunteering project took place from May 31 to June 2 at the Mother House of the Xaverian Missionaries in Parma. The initiative brought t…

On Friday, May 30th, 2025, we left our usual environment to meet a group of elderly – just like us – that live in the “Giorgio Bonzani” Residential Home, Varano dé Melegari, Parma, Italy. Our facilit…

Our Fatima Shrine here in Holliston, Massachusetts, USA, is also known locally for the Rosary Walk - a sculpted boulders Rosary beads. Last week, it was featured by the CBS News Boston – the local T…

On Wednesday 11, June 2025, at 8.30 p.m. at the Complesso San Cristo – Chruch, Via Piamarta 9, Brescia, the Italian actor and theatre director Elio Germano, nephew of our confrere Fr. Antonio Germano…

The life of the Laity Family continues as usual, but there are also some special events. Serena Rolandi and Alberto Chiappari have presented the activities of the Laity at the Regional Chapter of the…

On Friday, May 30th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., the Xaverian Community (Viale Vaticano 40) in Rome gathered in Piazza Pia (Rome), where the pilgrims’ lane (a preferential track to facilitate pilgrims) leadi…

The 8th Buddhist-Christian Colloquium on the theme “Buddhists and Christians Working Together for Peace through Reconciliation and Resilience” was held from May 27th to 29th, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia…

On Friday 6th, June 2025, at 8 a.m. (Bukavu time), at the Major Hospital of Bukavu (HPGRB), Democratic Republic of the Congo, our confrere Fr. Donatien Lwiyando Mujishamba passed away after a serious…

Secretariat of State, General Affairs, May 13th, 2025   Rev. Fr. Fernando, On the joyful occasion of the election to the Chair of Peter of the Holy Father Leo XIV, guardian and guide of the f…

On Sunday, June 8th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in St. Guido M. Conforti Shrine, Mother House, Parma, our confreres Jan Nahak Valerius, Yohanes Nicholindo Putra Geli Gowin, Didier Aksanti Mulondanyi and Fr…

On May 19th, 2025, based on consultations conducted by the confreres in Mozambique, the Superior General, with the consent of his Councillors, appointed the new Delegation Council of Mozambique: Sup…

For us, Xaverian Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters, each celebration of the feast of Mother Celestina’s “Yes!” is a celebration of our own “Yes!”, that of every day following Christ. This year…

On Friday May 23rd, 2025, in the afternoon, we left the Mother House to go on pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of the Holy Rosary, Fontanellato. We left full of joy, with a spirit of fraternity…

“I would like to be a Fr. Albert Joubert here in the Philippines.” This was the moving statement of Fr. Reynaldo Reyes, a diocesan priest from the Diocese of Pasig, in the Philippines. Like Fr. Alber…

On May 22, 2025, the Tokyo Interfaith Council, sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Japan, welcomed our confrere Fr Rocco Viviano for a lecture on “The Election of a Pope.”…

Below is a text prepared by Sr. Rosetta Mancini (born 1931) on behalf of the community of the Xaverian Sisters-Missionaries of Mary in Rome (Via Trionfale 7515), which she read it before the Eucharis…

From 27 to 29 May 2025, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the 8th International Buddhist-Christian ‘Colloquium’ was held, organised by the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, together with Buddhist univers…

Over the weekend of May 17th’18th, 2025, we, the Council of the Xaverian Laity, gathered at the House of the General Direction in Rome. This was the last meeting of this Council which is about the en…

During the Thursdays of the months of April and May 2025, our confrere Fr. Tiziano Tosolini, lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, was invited to hold a Seminar on Introd…

The food emergency has reached an all-time high in the DRC. The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a food alert for millions of people. In the eastern provinces of this African Country, as clarifi…

In few weeks, more than 25,000 people were forced to leave their homes in Mozambique. This number is in addition to the approximately 1.3 million people who, forced by armed conflict, cyclones and dr…

On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, at 01.15 a.m. (local time) - after a serious illness - our confrere Fr. Lino Sgarbossa passed away at the Xaverian Community of the IV Floor, Mother House, Parma. Fr. Lino…

Issue NO. 136 of iSaveriani-Notiziario (subsequent to the 6th meeting of the General Council– March 2025) has been uploaded on the GD’s website. The contents of this issue include: the Superior Gener…

The African Study Centre has resumed its publications after the interruption due to the outbreak of the covid-19 virus. Under the title ‘the conversion of the missionary’, borrowed from the French Je…

On Wednesday, May 14, the traditional meeting between the Catholic Theological Faculty and the Presbyterian Theological School took place, at the venue of the Catholic Faculty. During the meeting, ou…

From May 14th to 16th, 2025, the Japanese Major Superiors’ Conference was held in Karuizawa (Nagano prefecture, Japan), in a mood of conviviality and fraternity. In attendance were also the Apostolic…

On Saturday 17 May 2025, together with my confreres Nicolas Chiza Hombo, François Shamavu Mateso and Dieudonné Twahirwa, I partecipated in a moment of prayer and sharing with the community of Sant'Eg…

‘La Vita Cattolica’, Settimanale del Friuli (the Weekly Newspaper of Friuli), of 21 May 2025, reports a short interview with our confrere Fr. Joe Matteucig (member of the Xaverian community in Taipei…

Saturday, May 24th, marks the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China: “Sustain all those in China, who, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love. May they never be afraid t…

On Monday, May 19th, 2025, at 11:40 p.m. (local time), due to heart failure, our confrere Fr. Eugenio Juárez Hernández passed away at Clinic I West, Bafoussam, Cameroon. Fr. Eugenio was born in Ceran…

‘Pressenza’ is an international thematic news agency dedicated to peace, non-violence, non-discrimination and human rights. It releases news via its website. On Monday, 12 May 2025, “Pressenza” publ…

“…The editor of the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Trent, “Vita Trentina”, invited our confrere Fr Gabriele Ferrari to share a brief reflection on the election of Pope Leo XIV. Fr. Gabriele writ…

I attended the Seminar on “Protecting God’s Children” in St. John Evangelist Parish (Hopkinton, Massachusetts). This is a requirement from the Archdiocese of Boston for the Church Pastors, Religious…

Saturday May 10, 2025, confreres Richard Niyukuri (Burundi) and Yunis Martinus Zalukhu (Indonesia) received the order of deacons at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Maligaya, Quezon City, through the i…

The 103rd Assembly of the Union of Superior Generals (USG) will be held from May 21st to 23rd, 2025, at the residence Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano, Rome. In keeping with the Jubilee Year, the theme of…