With the start of the new year, we are introducing a small technical innovation in the cataloguing of the digital resources available on the website of the Xaverian Documentation Centre in Rome under…

The Regional Chapter held in Izumisano, Japan (January 3rd-5th, 2024) elected the new Regional direction (January 4th, 2024): Regional Superior: Giovanni Paolo Succu s.x. Vice Regional Superior: Gi…

On Thursday, January 4th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda returned to Rome from a visit to the confreres of the Circumscriptions of Colombia (November 9th-27th, 2023) and Mexico (November 27th, 2023 – January 2…

The Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez (January 10th, 2024), and General Councillor, Fr. Sudarmanto (January 12th, 2024), will go to Taipei, Taiwan, to meet the confreres of the Chinese…

MissioNet has planned a series of six documentaries in French, Italian and Spanish titled Insieme nella Vocazione Missionaria e nel Martirio (Sharing in the Same Missionary Vocation and Martyrdom). P…

On Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. (Rome time), the formation teams of the communities of theological studies (Mexico City, Kinshasa, Manila, Parma and Yaoundé) met for their first on-line…

On Friday, December 22nd, 2023, thirteen volunteers of the ‘I was in prison’ Project, which is promoted by the Xaverian Charismatic Family of Salerno, Italy, visited the inmates in the correctional f…

The XXXIII Refresher Course for Theology Teachers took place at “Casa S. Juan de Ávila” in Rome, from December 27th to 29th, 2023. Fr. Mario Menin was the Xaverian participant. For the first time, th…

One bishop, eight priests, two non-ordained religious men, one seminarian, one novice and seven lay men and women: twenty are the “missionaries” murdered in 2023. News agency Agenzia Fides employs th…

The formation team of the Xaverian Laity (Lsx) in Italy prepared a booklet containing the formation programme proposed for this pastoral year. It is a formation journey which was created out of the r…

Our confrere, Fr. Renato Filippini s.x. published Living Out Today as an Opportunity. The Gospel of Jesus coming to you (St. Paul’s Publishers). In the introduction, the author explains that the book…

“...I share with fraternal joy the same missionary life programme of Antonio Germano that, in Bangladesh, with ‘two sticks... singing and walking (with a limp)’, begins his 85th spring in mission (cf…

The XV Cultural Week, which was organised by the Xaverian Missionaries on the theme The Synodal Path and held on-line, has just ended. The event began on Monday, January 1st, 2024, and ended in the e…

A letter was sent on December 9th, 2023, to each Superior of Circumscription. It contained forms to be filled with information about changes and new types of service of the confreres and included a d…

On Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024, Miss María Luisa Bardón López, aunt of our confrere Fr. Rafael Bardón Sedano, passed away at Quión Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Fr. Rafael is a member of the community i…

Pope Francis’ message for the 57th World Peace Day deals with the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Peace. During this year, which is about to end, we observed humanity as it crossed the boundarie…

On Wednesday, December 27th, 2023, the Superior General and General Councillor Fr. Sudarmanto, returned to Rome from Thailand (17-26 December 2023).

Our confrere Fr. Francesco Cavallo, member of the Xaverian community of Salerno, Italy, will turn 104 years old on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024.   Taking up an invitation from the confreres…

The XVII Regional Chapter will take place at the Regional House in Izumisano (Osaka), on Thursday and Friday, January 4th and 5th, 2024. The agenda includes: a report on the situation of the Circums…

As usual, Shinmeizan (House of Prayer and Centre for Interreligious Dialogue) sends on time its Christmas wishes to the Xaverian Family. The wishes are signed by the members of the community that res…

MissioNet has planned a series of six documentaries in French, Italian and Spanish titled Insieme nella Vocazione Missionaria e nel Martirio (Sharing in the Same Missionary Vocation and Martyrdom). P…

The December 2023 issue of the monthly digital bulletin Agenda gathers various “News from the Mission.” Angela Marano relates her recent trip to Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, together with…

“As this 2023 comes to an end, taking away with itself my 84 years and leaving me with two sticks to help me walk with a limp, the joy and sense of urgency for proclaiming the good news of salvation…

Our confreres of the Circumscription of Thailand send their Christmas wishes, and those of a group of Thai friends, through a video. It contains just few words and many faces and gestures of blessing…

With Saturday January 13, 2024, begins the series of events that have the potential, during this year, to mark notable turning points in the history of mankind. Presidential and parliamentary electi…

On Wednesday, December 27th, 2023, Mr. Alziro Bortoloci, brother of our confrere Fr. João Bortoloci Filho, passed away at the Santa Casa Hospital in Londrina, Brazil. On the same day, Mrs. Neuza Mass…

“Christmas is the great dawn of our liberation; The newborn Jesus Christ is the sun of justice that rises in the world to remove the shadows of death. Hence, I have no other word to repeat but this…

Martyr Fr. Luigi Carrara s.x.  « Si tu veux me tuer, je préfère mourir ici près de mon frère».  If you want to kill me, then I prefer to die here, next to my brother.   Marty…

“Be missionary of God’s love and tenderness. With these words by Pope Francis, we wish all Xaverian Missionaries a joyful Christmas of daring service and loyalty to the missionary call among those wh…

On Saturday, December 9th, 2023, the Xaverian community of Nogent-sur-Marne celebrated the feast of Saint Francis Xavier. Together with the clergy of Saint Saturnin’s parish, the Pauline Fathers, the…

After the death of Fr. Raimondo Sommacal s.x., who held the position of Director of the Diocesan Office for Ministry among Migrants, and with the aim to ensure continuity to the service provided by s…

On Monday, December 11th, 2023, the MissioNET team led by confrere Héctor Gabriel Arroyo Salcido organized an online meeting with delegates from Xaverian circumscriptions in Africa. The aim was twofo…

“Let us walk together in justice” is the title of the message of the Catholic bishops of the Chadian nation for Christmas 2023. The letter is divided into three parts (I. What we believe: justice is…

During the General Audience of Wednesday, December 13th, 2023, the cycle of catecheses dedicated to the apostolic zeal reached the end. Pope Francis in his brief catechesis touched upon the following…

On Friday 22 December 2023, Sister Pia Bianca Maria Arienti, better known as Maria Pia, died at the Mother House of the Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters, in Parma. She was 93 years old. Maria…

“The Lord could not have been more benevolent towards us”. (LT 1) On Thursday, December 14th, 2023, during the audience granted to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes…

The Regional Chapter held in Khulna, Bangladesh (December 06th-11th, 2023), has elected the new Regional Council: Regional Superior: Lorenzo Valoti s.x. Vice Regional Superior: Melecio Cuevas Contr…

On Sunday, December 17th, 2023, Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Sudarmanto will leave Bangladesh and travel to the Delegation of Thailand on a visit to the confreres. Their return to Rome is sched…

There is no simpler, more affectionate, and direct thought than wishing a Merry Christmas to the members of ‘a community that takes care of the fragility of some confreres,’ which is what we are and…

Recognizing the overwhelming feeling of joy experienced by the Kings of the East when guided by the star to meet the baby Jesus, we wish all Xaverian family in the world a Merry Christmas. May the sa…

It is beautiful to communicate among us, brothers committed to the proclamation of the Gospel, in this Christmas season. Christmas belongs to us for it is the source of mission. Jesus, who comes, go…

On Thursday, December 7th, 2023, the Xaverian Propaedeutic community celebrated an important day during a conference on the theme "Synodality in religious and priestly training". Fr. Dieudonné NIYIBI…

Hosted by the community of the Xaverian Missionaries of the Mother House in Parma, the Xaverian Laity gathered from December 8th to 10th, 2023 for their usual winter camp. For the groups present in I…

During Advent, in Mexico and in other places, a type of procession commemorates Joseph and Mary's search for hospitality while waiting for the birth of Jesus: they are called las Posadas (the inns)…

Excerpts from the message:  We need to remember that scientific research and technological innovations are not disembodied and “neutral”,but subject to cultural influences. As fully human act…

On Thursday, December 14th, around 3:00 a.m., Mr. Maurice Rumama Compagnie, father of our confrere and general councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka, passed away at Hôpital Général d'Uvira whe…

On Sunday, December 10th, 2023, in the parish of St Paul Cathedral, Uvira, DRC, our confrere Mark Bangura Gbama will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands and the prayer of ordination of…

Thanks to the generous effort of various confreres who regularly provide the translations of the official Xaverian documents in the most widespread languages of the Institute, the French, Indonesian…

Celebrating the feast of St Francis Xavier with Sufi brothers and sisters has already become a tradition in Morocco. We are united in this celebration by the desire to “make a single family embracing…

A piano recital has been organized on December 1st to mark the 1st anniversary of Saint Francis Xavier Oratory Chapel in Umphang. Two professional pianists from Bangkok and Chonburi have offered over…