On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the religious profession of our confrere Fr Franco Lizzit, the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, sent the following message to Fr…

The elective Assembly of the Spain-Morocco Circumscription was held from the afternoon of Monday, August 31st to Thursday, September 3rd, 2026. It was attended by the confreres from the three co…

In the Xaverian Region of Mexico, this year we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first Xaverian to come to the country, Fr. Hugo Cattenati, in the city of Mazatlán, Sinaloa a…

The Xaverian community in Yaoundé gathered from September 3rd to 4th, 2026, for the community, pastoral and academic planning. Due to the emergency situation in the Great Lakes region, which has…

Ever since the day the General Direction asked me to draw up a three-month programme for on-going formation (formazione permanente), this pressing issue – i.e. on-going formation – has been a subject…

It has been 50 years since I took my first religious vows. Fifty years is a short span of time when compared with the history of humankind; they are but a ‘breath’, as the psalm prayer says. Althoug…

By Decree of the President of the Italian Republic (issued May 29th, 2026), on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, our confrere Fr. Pier Luigi Lupi will receive the honour of Cavaliere dell'ordine dell…

We were blessed to have made a pilgrimage to Assisi. For many of us, it was our first time visiting Assisi, where memories of Saint Francis, Saint Clare, and the young Saint Carlo Acutis are preserve…

On Friday, September 4th, 2026, Fr. Mauro Loda returned to Rome after attending the Assembly of the Delegation of Spain-Morocco. 

Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will be back in Rome after a visit to the confreres of the Circumscription of Cameroon. His return is scheduled for Monday, September 7th, 2026. 

Fr. Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto will be back in Rome after a visit to the confreres of the Circumscription of Indonesia. His return is scheduled for Monday, September 7th, 2026. 

From September 8th to October 2nd, 2026, all members of the General Direction will gather for the 11th General Council meeting. Items in the agenda include: reports on the visits to the cir…

The biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. Valerio Anzanello has been posted on the General Direction’s website. Fr. Alessandro passed away on July 11th, 2026, at the Regional Ho…

“Remember that on September 12th you will celebrate 70 years of religious profession. You do remember that, don’t you?” A friendly voice delves into memories and celebrations. We live one day at…

“Go and offer your life”: this is a summary of the life plan that our three sisters – Olga Raschietti (83), Lucia Pulici (75) and Bernardetta Boggian (79) – tried to liv…

Olga, Lucia, Bernardette, God chose you to be His witnesses is the title of a song composed by the Xaverian sister Missionary of Mary Jacqueline Marie Niyitangavyose to honour the life…

On Monday September 1, 2026, in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chanceline MILENGE IRAGI passed away. Mrs Chanceline is the sister of our confrere Kizito MILENGE KISHINGANINE, a member of t…

From 1 to 4 September 2026, the confreres of the Spain-Morocco Delegation, together with Fr. Mauro Loda, will meet in Madrid, Spain, for the Delegation Assembly. The agenda includes: the Delegate Sup…

New Treasurer of the House of the General Direction Starting July 1st, 2026, our confrere, Fr. José Ignacio Martínez González, General Procurator for Economy, is the new Treasurer of the c…

The biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. Vito Scagliuso has been posted on the General Direction’s website. Fr. Vito passed away on June 22nd, 2026, at the emergency room of&nb…

It seems that Theophrastus (Aristotle's disciple and heir, scholarch of the Peripatetic School) lamented, saying: “Now that I'm finally beginning to understand something, it's already time to die”…

The town of Molveno lies on the shores of the lake of the same name, nestled among lush green woods at the foot of the majestic Brenta Dolomites, in the province of Trento. It offers a peaceful natur…

Our confrere Fr. Lucas Marandi completed a two-year Master’s degree in the Science of Religion at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas), Brazil, on August 21, 2026…

On Tuesday September 1, the Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Leo XIV will preside over Mass at the Garden of the Madonnina del Borgo Laudato si’, in the pontifical Gardens at Castel…

This is the first comprehensive document drafted by the key figures behind the new wave of adult baptisms in France. Catechumens, supporters, priests, men and women religious, groups, and communities…

In mid-August, Xaverian laypeople from various Italian groups gathered in Velletri, a town in the province of Rome, for their summer camp. There were about forty of us.  The central theme of th…

On Tuesday August 18th, 2026, the Xaverian Missionary in Scotland helped organise a day conference on “Claiming Christianity: Responding to the far right in Scotland”. As well as members of the Bisho…

Conselho Indigenista Missionário (C.I.MI or Indigenous Missionary Council), an agency under the Brazilian Bishop Conference, in its 2025 Report on the violence against the indigenous p…

On Tuesday, August 18th, 2026, Mrs Carmela Zurlo, the 101-year-old sister of our late confrere Fr. Marcello Zurlo (d. December 20th, 2025), passed away in Cittadella, Padua, Italy. 

On Saturday, August 15, 2026, in the morning (before 05:00 local time) a massive earthquake struck the island of Flores. The epicentre was located in the Flores Sea, 30 km from Nagekeo. Around 5.000…

Issue no. 139 of iSaveriani has been posted on the General Direction’s website. It contains the proceedings of COSUMA AFRIQUE 2025, which was held in Bafoussam, Cameroon (June 15th-22nd, 2025). The t…

The biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. Alessandro Galeani has been posted on the General Direction’s website. Fr. Alessandro passed away on March 5th, 2026, at the Regional House in Izumisa…

Taking Pope Leo XIV’s message One in Christ, United in Mission for the 100th World Mission Day as a starting point, the front page of the August-September issue of our bulletin Missionari Saveriani f…

On Thursday, August 20th, 2026, we commemorated the anniversary of the death of our beloved Mother, the Venerable Celestina Bottego. She spent a life nourished by faith and constantly open to the act…

Cameroon remains the setting for one of the most severe yet underreported humanitarian crises on the planet. It is a silent crisis that forces millions of people to live far from their homes, deprive…

Back on July 16th, 1951, the Xaverian Father Ugo Cattenati, invited by a small group of lay Catholics, sought out a spot to begin a new chapter: the Instituto Cultural de Occidente, the first Xaveria…

The FuturoPresente Festival – Science, Ethics, and Society, promoted by the Centre for Bioethics of the University of Parma, will take place in Parma on October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. The Festival will d…

In 1919, Msgr. Guido Maria Conforti planned to open a new house in north-eastern Italy to accommodate the growing number of vocations. After some searching, Villa De Tacchi (formerly known as Villa B…

Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will be in Cameroon from August 10th to September 7th, 2026, to participate in the planning of the Theologate in Yaoundé which is scheduled for the first week of Septe…

Thank you for your greetings and for your concern about our situation. In Colombia there has truly been a devastating earthquake. Thanks be to God, our three communities are doing fine. The strongest…

The biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. Camillo Didonè has been posted on the General Direction’s website. Fr. Camillo passed away at Holy House of Mercy in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, on Febr…

From August 2nd to 9th, 2026, the 14th International Youth Summer Camp organized by the diocesan Charitas took place in Cagliari, where its main camp was at the house of the Xaverian Missionaries. Pa…

Shortly before the end of the 2024-2025 academic year, the Department of Philosophy at Fu Jen Catholic University, through the ATI (Societas Thomistica in Taiwan, Formosa) group, invited our confrere…

September 12th marks the feast day of St. Guido (Saint Guido of Anderlecht—also known as Saint Guido of Brabant – a Belgian pilgrim and farmer who lived around the year 1000) and that of the Most Hol…

On Thursday, November 5th, 2026, in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, the Società Internazionale Tommaso d’Aquino (SITA) will hold a conference on the Tomi…

From scattered entities across the territory to a single national network capable of sharing content, skills, and resources. The official establishment in Bongor, Chad, of the “Réseau des Médias…

From 3 to 6 August 2026, the First Christian-Confucian Colloquium took place at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea: “New Heaven, New Earth and Datong (Dà Tóng 大同) (Great Harm…

On August 12, 2026, the Congregation of St Joseph of Zhengzhou (the Josephines) celebrated 110 years of history with joy and gratitude. Its origins date back to 1914, when Monsignor Luigi Calza (贾师…

On Monday, August 10th, 2026, Mrs Elvia Ferro, 88, sister of our confrere Fr. Ermanno Ferro, passed away. The Requiem Mass was celebrated on Thursday, August 13th, 2026, at the church of the main squ…

Our Chinese confrere, Deac. Simone, has recently completed the biographies in Chinese of the first three non-Italian Xaverians: Fr. Agostino Yang (1920-1994), Fr. Simone Liu …