“The Chapter Fathers are glad to inform the entire Xaverian Family that the three new councillors have been elected. They are: Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka, who has been confirmed for a second…

During the last session of the previous General Council (session n. 24, Friday, May 19th, 2023), upon reading a petition presented by the regional superior of the D.R.C. circumscription and his counc…

The Xaverians from South Brazil gathered from July 10 to 14, 2023, in the Paulo VI retreat house, Londrina City (Paraná) for their annual retreat. Dom Geremias Steinmetz (archbishop of Londrina) was…

“… Sincere thanks for the brief but comprehensive news about the Chapter which we timely receive every day. You are really engaging us in this journey… Mandi. (Friulan: May God be with you).” (Lorenz…

Co-published by several UN agencies, FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WHO and WFP, the 2023 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World reveals that, over the last year (2022), 122 million mor…

On July 19th, at the First Festival of Philosophy, held in Rieti (Italy) on the theme “Il posto dell'uomo nel mondo. Transumanesimo o nuova umanità? (The Place of Humanity in the World. Trans-humanis…

BRIEF CHRONICLE OF THE THIRD WEEK (JULY 13TH-20TH, 2023) Friday, July 14th, 2023. The day began with a Eucharistic celebration led by the Delegation of the Philippines. The Chapter Fathers spent th…

On Sunday, July 16th, 2023, at 1:00 p.m., in the Chapel of the Novitiate Community in Salamanca, Gto. Mexico, the following novices will make their first religious and missionary profession: Ricar…

In the run-up to the III World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly that will be celebrated on Sunday, July 23rd, 2023, Pope Francis has sent a message titled “His mercy is from age to age”. In this…

From the report of the Xaverian Region in Italy, we read “It is an invitation to spend with commitment, creativity, and generosity, but without getting discouraged if the results do not correspond to…

At the beginning of the community year - which is now drawing to a close – confreres committed themselves to working in the pastoral care of Missionary Childhood. Two theology students accompanied a…

“Dear Capitular Confreres, thank you for the updates you regularly send us via Newsletter. I continue to accompany your work with prayer and enthusiasm for this moment of grace for the whole Xaveri…

Boys and girls of the Liceo Artistico Sabatino-Menna (Sabatino-Menna Art Senior High School) in Salerno, along with their teachers, produced a video which illustrates the stages leading to the realis…

COMMUNITY OF PHILOSOPHY, G.A.M.I.X. AND CHAPTER FATHERS On Sunday, July 9th, 2023, a group of Chapter Fathers came to pray in the Martyrs Chapel of the Xaverian community in Vamaro, where young peop…

On June 22nd, 2023, the 2023 Report on Religious Freedom in the World was published. The report is prepared every two years by the Pontifical Foundation ‘Aid to the Church in Need’ (Aiuto alla Chiesa…

In view of the forthcoming Jubilee of 2025, Pope Francis has decided to set up in the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints a Commission for drawing up a ‘catalogue’ of all those who have shed their blo…

BRIEF CHRONICLE OF THE SECOND WEEK (July 7th-14th, 2023) Video YouTube  Friday, July 7th, 2023 marked World Day of Swahili Language (the most spoken language in the African continent). The l…

On Friday, July 7th, 2023, Mr Enoch Furlan, 94-year-old brother of our late confrere Furland Girardo (d. 2013, in Holliston, USA) passed away, The Requiem Massa and funerary rites were celebrated on…

Through the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, Pope Francis has sent the following message to the Chapter Fathers. Originally written in Spanish, the message bears his personal signatur…

On Sunday, July 16th, 2023, at 1:00 p.m., in the Chapel of the Novitiate Community in Salamanca, Gto., Mexico, Ricardo Gómez Trejo, coming from the Xaverian Minor Seminary (Casa Apostolica) of San Ju…

The Family of the Xaverian Laity have been accompanying in prayer and reflection the work of preparation for the XVIII GCh. Now, it assures the Chapter Fathers of its constant invocation of the Holy…

My name is Paskalis Rifandi Kaut. I am from Flores Island, Indonesia, and am one of the young people who made their first vows in Jakarta on Sunday, June 25, 2023. I would like to give thanks to…

For the benefit of those who do not have access to the website of the General Direction, below we present a brief chronicle of the communiqués issued in the first 6 days of the chapter. However, to r…

All the Delegates to the XVIII General Chapter have already reached the DRC. Many of them arrived in Bukavu via Goma, the city of Volcano Nyragongo. They did the trip from Goma to Bukavu on a boat al…

The main theme of the First Vocational Missionary Meeting (June 17th-18th, 2023), organised by the Vocation Directors of the North Brazil Circumscription, was the Lord Jesus’ invitation, “Come and Se…

On June 20th, 2023, during the Permanent Council of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (or CNBB), three bishops were elected to constitute the Episcopal Commission on Mi…

Cadernos n.10 of the Latin-American Centre for Missionary Studies (or CEMLA) is out. The Centre is the result of a collaboration among the Xaverian circumscriptions of Brazil, Colombia and…

* The last entry in the Dear Chapter column is by Fr Gilbert Mbula, sx, Rector of the Theologate of Yaoundé. It is entitled: Called to LOVE our Xaverian vocation. «... I invite us to consider, some v…

On Saturday, June 24th, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., in St Guido Maria Conforti Shrine – Mother House, Parma, our confrere Jean-Marie Ishara Nabahivi will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands an…

On Sunday, June 25th, 2023, in the chapel of the Novitiate House of Bintaro, Jakarta, eight young Indonesians will make their first religious and missionary profession in the hands of the Regional Su…

On Monday, June 26th, 2023, at 10.00 am, seven young confreres will make their first profession of vows. The Eucharist will be celebrated in the big chapel of the Xaverian Missionaries in Kilomoni –…

On Tuesday, June 27th, 2023, Vicar General Fr. Mario C. Mula, councilors Fr. Eugenio Pulcini and Fr. Javeir Peguero Pérez, will leave for Bukavu, D.R.C. They will travel with other seven confreres, d…

The Preparatory Committee of the XVIII General Chapter – made up of confreres: Kalehezo T’Chiribuka Fabien and Pulcini Eugenio (coordinators); Turco Faustino (secretary)…

Boys and girls of II and III years, teachers and the director of "Regina Margherita" state high school in Salerno (South of Italy) wrote to Fr. Ferdinandus Supandri s.x. and Esterel Ga…

The UN calls them “hot spots” of world hunger. They form a list that keeps enlarging inexorably. Various shocks – such as climate change, the pandemic, war in Ukraine and, now, the Sudanese…

“Healing, respect, forgiveness, reconciliation and truth.” Card. Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, wanted to meet the people of Goma, capital city of the tormented…

With the renowned expression “giving voice to the voiceless”, typical of a Church that reaches out to the peripheries, our confrere Fr. Rosario Giannattasio, president of Editrice Missionaria Italian…

“The planet is thirsty!” This is the alarm UN launched on World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, or simply “DD-day” (desertification and drought day).  This year the day is…

The third updated edition (June 24th) of the Personnel Directory 2023 (Stato del Personale 2023) can be downloaded from the GD’s website. Thanks to all confreres that precisely and clearly…

On Sunday, June 11th, 2023, Mr. Gerard Casey, brother of our confrere Fr. Archie Casey, passed away in Hamilton (Lanarkshire), Scotland. The Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday June 28th, 2023…

The young confrere Fr. François Saleh Moll – a member of the community of Fnideq, Morocco – shares with us in an original way his understanding of the meaning of Loving our Xaverian vocation: To jour…

On Saturday, June 24th, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., in St Guido Maria Conforti Shrine – Mother House, Parma, our confrere Jean-Marie Ishara Nabahivi will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands an…

The Xaverian Circumscription of Indonesia wishes to share the good news with our entire missionary family. On Sunday, June 25th, 2023, at 10:30 a.m., in the chapel of the Novitiate House of Bintaro…

On Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, during his pastoral visit, the Bishop of Tete, Dom Diamantino Antunes, officially established in Doa the St Guido Maria Conforti Parish. It is the first parish in Mozamb…

THE FIRST PARISH TO WELCOME THE XAVERIANS IN CHADIAN LAND (1982) Thanks to the Eucharistic celebration that brightened up St John the Evangelist Parish in Gounou-Gaya (Diocese of Pala) and the Xave…

END OF THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF XAVERIAN PRESENCE It happened on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in the National Sanctuary of Aparecida, São Paulo, with the presence of the Xaverian fam…

"The discovery of joy" is the title chosen for a collection of 21 conversion stories, translated into Italian and associated with the small parish of St. Francis Xavier in Taipei, Taiwan. Our confrer…

On Thursday, June 22nd, 2023, the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, will travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On Monday, June 26th, 2023, he will receive the…

On Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, in his catechesis on “the passion for evangelisation”, at the presence of the relics of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, patroness of the missions, and those of her parents, Lu…

The fourth video meeting on the theme of the XVIII General Chapter, that was explored from the perspective of the European continent, took place on Tuesday, June 6th, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. (Rome time)…