Our confrere Simon, a member of the International Theology community in Manila, Philippines, currently in his third year of Theology, shared on the website of the of the Delegation of the Philippines…

As per tradition, Missione Oggi, the magazine of the Xaverians, in Spring held its yearly convention. Its starting point was last year’s two special issues dedicated to Geopolitics in the XXI century…

The yearly report of the Global Network Against Food Crises (with FAO and UN agencies) states that, while the ongoing “food catastrophe” in Gaza affects more than 600,000 people (where one-third of c…

On May 3 and 4, 2024, the Chinese Delegation Council held its meetings in Izumisano, Japan. Purpose of the short trip was to pay a courtesy visit to a neighbour Xaverian circumscription and begin the…

The European Forum are hosting a Zoom Meeting on Thursday May 16th at 7pm (UK time 8pm in Italy and Spain). The theme will look at “Our Mission in Europe” with space for an open dialogue, exchan…

The tragedy and oppression in Gaza were the subject of a visit to Glasgow by Fr Gabriel Romanelli the Parish Priest of Holy Family Parish the Catholic Parish in Gaza. Fr Jim Clarke the vice regi…

On Thursday, May 2, 2024, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem, held a lectio magistralis at the Paul VI Hall of the Lateran University. The theme of his lecture was "Types and Cr…

The activities of Shinmeizan as House of Prayer go always hand in hand with those of its Centre for Interreligious Dialogue. Last year, its guests were once again more than five hundred, including fo…

From May 1st to 4th, 2024 a colloquium was held in Kinshasa, D.R.C., on the theme “Catholic Higher Education at the Service of Integral Human Development.” All rectors and general directors of Cathol…

From April 29th to May 2nd, 2024, the International Meeting of Pastors was held under the theme “Pastors for the Synod.” Pope Francis invited all the participants in this international meeting to bec…

From Ancona, Roberta Brasili tells us about the meeting of the lay Xaverian group. Getting together tells us that the nostalgia for the old Xaverian house can become less acute thanks to the beautifu…

Thanks to the generous and patient contribution of various confreres – among whom we would like to mention Br. Maurizio Zenere and Fr. Javier Peguero Pérez – AnagrafeSaveriana 2024 has been published…

It is an all-time high for global military spending, which in 2023 increased for the ninth consecutive year. The increase in dollars adjusted for inflation is 6.8 percent compared with 2022, reaching…

On Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, 97-year-old Mrs. Gilda Maria Livia Curione, sister of our confrere Fr. Vincenzo Mario Curione, passed away in Fardella, Potenza, Italy. The Requiem Mass and funerary rite…

On Saturday, May 4th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in the church of St G.M. Conforti Parish, Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi, our confrere Jean Paul Majambere will be ordained priest through the laying on of han…

The XVIII Regional Chapter held in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia (April 23rd – 01st May, 2024) elected the new Regional Direction (April 28th, 2024): Regional Superior: Paulus Yohanes Dharmawan Adhariu…

The XIV Regional Chapter held in Bukavu, DRCONGO (April 24th – 30th, 2024) elected the new Regional Direction (April 29th, 2024): Regional Superior: Bernard Cibambo Rubibi s.x. (27.04.2024) (re-appo…

On Saturday, May 4th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda returned to Rome from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

On Monday, May 6th, 2024, General Councillor Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will arrive at the General House.

On Monday, May 6th, 2024, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will return to Rome from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

On Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez and Fr. Sudarmanto will return to Rome directly from Indonesia.

From May 8th to June 4th, 2024, the General Direction will hold its third round of council meetings.  Items in the agenda include: laying out the final details of the Major Superiors’ Conference…

The Xaverian Sister – Missionary of Mary Fernanda Tettamanzi, who belongs to the community of Via Trionfale in Rome has collected the five pages of the quarterly bullettin “Saveriane. Missionarie di…

Fr. Savio Corinaldesi’s Easter, Fr. Renato Trevisan’s Easter, and Pope Francis’ message for the 61st World Day of Prayer for Vocations continue telling me to dream like the Lord dreams, like our holy…

The European Forum are hosting a Zoom Meeting on Thursday May 16th at 7pm (UK time 8pm in Italy and Spain). The theme will look at “Our Mission in Europe” with space for an open dialogue, exchan…

There are events that occur unexpectedly (or almost unexpectedly) and for this very reason are providential. One of such events was the meeting of some alumni (“apostolini”), former students of the X…

On April 27, 2024, some students took part in an Ecumenical inter-seminary Theological Forum organized by the Diocese of Novaliches in partnership with the Quezon City Ecumenical Fellowship (QCEF) an…

Our confrere Fr. Luciano Mazzocchi has published a 140-page book titled La gratuità e la libertà interiore. Scalando a mani nude (Gratuitousness and Inner Freedom. Climbing with Bare Hands), Europa E…

For each video, the G.D. Website presents the translation of the lyrics, the authors, and the music: Isidore Kawaya Idumbo sx Furaha ya Mashahidi Wapya Uvira (“Joy for the new martyrs of Uvira”)…

Pope Francis' Message for the LVIII World Day of Social Communications: "Artificial intelligence and wisdom of the heart: towards a fully human communication." "The evolution of artificial intellige…

On Friday, April 26th, 2024, at 9:30 p.m. (local time), our 90-year-old confrere Fr. Sergio Marchetto passed away in St G.M. Conforti parish in Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi. He was born on April 6th…

On Saturday, April 27th, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., in the parish of the Transfiguration, Parma, our confreres Pie Niyibizi, Willybrordus Aditya Yudistira, Gustave and Servasius Haryono will be ordain…

On Saturday, May 4th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in the church of St G.M. Conforti Parish, Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi, our confrere Jean Paul Majambere will be ordained priest through the laying on of han…

Excerpt from a message of our confreres (received on April 21st, 2024): “From Palm Sunday (March 24th, 2024) till today, Good Shepherd Sunday (April 21st, 2024), we have been experiencing a difficul…

After the two songs composed by our confrere Isidore Kawaya Idumbo (Formation Period in Mission, Indonesia, and currently in Yogyakarta for Indonesian language study): Furaha ya Mashahidi Wapya Uvir…

On Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April 2024, on the occasion of the 61st World Day of Prayer for Vocations, in the parish of Saint Guido Maria Conforti and in the “chácara” (“small rural property”) of th…

On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the XVIII Indonesian Regional Chapter was officially opened.  This Chapter is attended by Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, Fr. Sudarmanto and Fr. Felipe de Jesús López…

The website of the Xaverian Sisters – Missionaries of Mary https://saveriane.it/it/   has posted an interview with some Xaverian sisters carried out by OMPE (Obras Misionales Pontificio Episcop…

On Friday 19th of April 2024 Fr Jim Clarke s.x, Vice regional of the UK Circumscription and Mr Hugh Foy the Region’s Director of Programmes attended a poverty and suicide event organized by The Pover…

The Rector of the San Guido Maria Conforti Shrine, Fr. Nicola Colasuonno, and the Shrine's pastoral care team have prepared two units (downloadable) for praying the Rosary. The units bring together t…

The presentation of Prof Ambrogio Bongiovanni's book, “The cross and Islam,” was held on Friday, April 19, 2024, at the provincial library in Salerno. The associations that gave birth to "Dreaming of…

On Saturday, April 27th, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Francis meets the elderly, grandparents and grandchildren. Figuratively, the elderly are like the last floor of a building inhabited…

Pope Francis’ catechesis at the general audience on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 was dedicated to temperance (in Greek, enkráteia), the ‘fourth and last cardinal virtue’. Continuing the cycle of refle…

The printed edition of iSaveriani no. 131 is still at the printing house, but the digital edition has already been sent to all registered members and can also be consulted on the General Direction's…

On Saturday, April 27th, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., in the parish of the Transfiguration, Parma, our confreres Pie Niyibizi, Willybrordus Aditya Yudistira, Gustave and Servasius Haryono will be ordain…

The confreres of the Mozambique Delegation gathered from April 9 to 12, 2024 in the parish house of Sena for the first of two annual assemblies. All nine confreres currently present in Mozambique wer…

From April 8-12, 2024, the 2 Regional Councils of Brazil (North and South) met at the North Brazil Regional House in Belém do Pará. The purpose was to hold a joint council meeting to address various…

Our confrere Fr. Giuseppino Dovigo, member of the Xaverian community in Vicenza, Italy, has just completed the tetralogy of the Venerable Servants of God that will be beatified in Uvira (Democratic R…

The website of the Delegation of the Philippines (https://philippines.xaverians.org/) has posted the experience of conversion and discipleship of Aurea Gita, a young woman from Kebumen, in the provin…

From March 5th to 19th, 2024, we had in our midst the confreres working in the MissioNet service of Fnideq, that is, Fr. Héctor Gabriel Arroyo Salcido and Fr. Pietro Rossini. We spent days of great f…