On Sunday, August 28th, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., in the church of Mary Queen of the Apostles Parish, Kaniola, Archdiocese of Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC, our confrere Pasteur Mugisho Bisimwa s.x. will be ord…

On Friday, August 19th, 2022, Fr. Eugenio Pulcini s.x. returned to Rome after a visit to the Delegation of the Philippines.

The so-called “digital continent” is made up by an impressive array of websites, platforms like the social media, apps, electronic devices, algorithms, artificial intelligence, virtual and mixed real…

On Wednesday, August 17th, 2022, Indonesia celebrated its 77th Independence Day under the theme “Recover Faster, Rise Up Stronger ── Pulih Lebih Cepat Bangkit Lebih Kuat.” This big theme represents t…

On August 20th, the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Mother Celestina Bottego’s “birth into heaven” (August 20th, 1980). She is the foundress  – with Fr. Gia…

The website of the GD has posted the beautiful testimony of Michelle, a young woman form Côte d'Ivoire who works for the UN in Uvira: Kilomoni, Ce que représente pour moi la présence des Missionnair…

The national summer camp of the Xaverian Laity in Italy, attended by more than 50 participants in-person and others on-line, took place in a deep spirit of sharing and reflection. The result of this…

Suddenly, just the whole world is talking about Taiwan and the winds of war that now seem blowing stronger. This should already suggest some caution in trying to understand the evolution of the situa…

Borderline Gender e le Chiese del Sud Globale is the title of the July-August 2022 issue of Missione Oggi edited by Mauro Castagnaro and Virginia Isingrini m.m.x. This 24-page issue is completely ded…

On Saturday, August 13th, 2022, Fr. Marcos José dos Santos has been ordained bishop for the Diocese of Cornélio Procopio (a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Londrina) in the metropolitan cathe…

On Tuesday morning, August 16th, 2022, Mrs Pina Dechet née Cambiganu, sister of  our confrere Fr. Sergio Cambiganu s.x., passed away in Genoa. She was 91. Fr. Sergio Cambiganu is a member of the…

On Saturday, August 20th, 2022, at 12:00 a.m., in the church of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Torreón City, State of Coahuila, Mexico, our confrere Ignacio Torres Fabela s.x. will be ordained priest thr…

On Saturday, August 20th, 2022, at 5:00 p.m., in the church of Immaculate Conception Parish, Cantagalo, State of Paraná, Brazil, our confrere Everson Luiz Kloster s.x. will be ordained priest through…

Following are some notes Fr. Antonio Schiavi, a priest of Parma, provided as testimony in the inquiry leading to Conforti’s canonization (see Positio, Rome 1955, p. 419): “He commenced the first and…

Fr. Luigi Lo Stocco s.x. has prepared a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate some aspects (which he calls spigolature, i.e., anecdotal facts) of the daily life of the confreres living in the 4th Flo…

Few months ago, I was asked to check and update the mail addresses and telephone numbers of our deceased confreres’ relatives in the Marche region (Italy). During the two years since I have been in t…

On Sunday, August 7th, 2022, in the Eucharistic celebration presided by Fr. Antonius Suhud Budi Pranoto sx, provincial superior of the Xaverian circumscription in Indonesia, two temporary professed X…

A short historical review of the Xaverians’ work in indigenous pastoral programmes helps appreciate better the changes that occurred in the presence of our missionary family in the Amazonas. The jour…

We are 47 days away from the beginning of Mission Festival 2022. Several of our confreres are directly involved in the preparation, organisation and realisation of the Festival: Fr. Carlos Eduardo Re…

On Saturday, August 6th, 2022, Mr Jesús Manuel Ruiz Álvarez, 62-year-old brother of our confrere Fr. Pedro Saúl Ruiz Álvarez, passed away in the city of Chihuahua, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Fr. Sa…

On Sunday, August 7th, 2022, at 9:00, in the church of Holy Family Parish in Luvungi, Diocese of Uvira, D.R.C., our confrere Augustin Byamungu Mahanga s.x. will be ordained priest through the laying…

On Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022, Fr. Eugenio Pulcini s.x. headed for the Philippines to visit the confreres of that Delegation. He is scheduled to return to Rome on Friday, August 18th, 2022.

In the evening of July 21st, 2022, parish priest Fr. Lucas Marandi s.x. was bestowed the title of Cidadão Honorário, Filho da Terra (Honorary Citizen, Son of Our Land) in the basement of his church u…

On August 4th, every year since 1987, in continuation with the previous year’s "Encounter of Assisi", the headquarter of Tendai Buddhism, on Mount Hiei, in Kyoto, organizes a ‘summit’ or prayer meeti…

From August 7th to 13th, 2022, the XXX Summer Camp will take place in Acerno, Salerno (Italy). This moment of community life, prayer, formation and planning will be attended by 45 lay men and women b…

For three days from 25th -27th of July, Jim Clarke s.x., John Convery s.x. and our two lay employees, Hugh Foy and Phil Callaghan, took part in this first part of a course entitled “Faith in Change a…

Very early in the morning of August 2nd, 2022, we left our lodgings in the guest quarters of the Monastery in Buta and headed for the capital of the Diocese of Bururi, where, almost 27 years ago, Fr…

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Asian Study Centre (CSA) was held on 28-29 July 2022, via videoconference. In attendance were Fr. Fabrizio Tosolini s.x. from Taiwan, Fr. Matteo Rebecchi s.x. from the…

The Xaverian community of Taipei and "Guido's Family" (the Lay Group) have published a Chinese translation of the Testament Letter of Saint Guido Maria Conforti. The initiative is part of the celebra…

The June-July issue of Agenda, Bulletin of the Xaverian Laity in Italy, is out now. As always, its first part presents a passage taken from the Founder, St Guido Maria Conforti’s thoughts: One shout…

“La finestra su San Pietro” (Window on St Peter) is a programme of religious news hosted by Luciano Cozzolino and broadcasted on RAI 1. The episode aired on Sunday, July 31st, 2022, features a brief…

On Thursday, July 28th, 2022, we celebrated a Mass in the parish church of Orsaria, a little village in the province of Udine, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of our confrere Fr. Aur…

A reflection by Fr. Tiziano Tosolini s.x. entitled “Taking care of Fragilities” (Cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 209-216). “Synodality for a Church with an open heart”. Invited by the Church of Salerno, Italy…

The official Logo of the XVIII General Chapter has been published on the DG's website. It is accompanied by a presentation, in various languages, by the Preparatory Committee. Files of the logo, in i…

On Tuesday, August 2nd, at 5:30 p.m., in St Frasiskus Asisi Church, Padang (West Sumatra, Indonesia), our confrere Bonavantura Kardi s.x. will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands and th…

On Friday, August 5th, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., in the parish church of San José Galindo, San Juan del Río Municipality, Querétaro, Mexico, our confreres Erasto Torres Carpio s.x. and Enedino Calixto Dom…

On Sunday, August 7th, 2022, at 9:00, in the church of Holy Family Parish in Luvungi, Diocese of Uvira, D.R.C., our confrere Augustin Byamungu Mahanga s.x. will be ordained priest through the laying…

Fr. Faustino Turco s.x., General Postulator, has been in Burundi from July 4th to August 4th to partake in the Xaverian congress on formation in Africa held in Bujumbura from July 11th to 18th. He ha…

When the new house in Vicenza was built, it was meant to accommodate old self-sufficient confreres. However, as time went by, new needs arose and now in the house there are not self-sufficient father…

In the French text of the Final Guidelines of the Continental Meeting of the Xaverian Formators in Africa on reads: At the end of this meeting on Formation in Africa, we are grateful for the gift of…

The fourth video of the series The Xaverian Missionaries in the U.S. is out. Prepared by our confrere, Pietro Rossini s.x., The Xaverian Missionaries in the U.S. - 04: The Mission is about our confre…

In Japan, on July 26th, 2022, the death penalty by hanging was administered to a man who, in 2008, at the age of 25, had murdered 7 people and wounded 10. His was a premeditated massacre motivated by…

The updated digital edition (July 30th, 2022) of Personnel Directory 2022 (Stato del Personale 2022) can be downloaded from the GD’s website. As always, thanks to the circumscription superiors and th…

On Tuesday, July 26th, 2022, Mrs Sabina Gutiérrez Martín, mother of our confrere Fr. Manuel Sánchez Gutiérrez s.x., passed away in Pegueros, Jalisco (Mexico). The funeral Mass was celebrated on Wedne…

On Friday, July 29th, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. (local time), our confrere Br. Giomar Henrique Clemente s.x. will make his Final Profession in Nossa Senhora Aparecida Parish, which is located in his hometow…

On Tuesday, August 2nd, at 5:30 p.m., in St Francis of Assisi Church, Padang (West Sumatra, Indonesia), our confrere Bonavantura Kardi s.x. will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands and…

The Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez s.x. has returned from Bujumbura, Burundi (July 20th, 2022), where he took part in the Continental Meeting of the Xaverian Formators in Africa. On…

On July 18th, 2022, the Continental Meeting of the Xaverian Formators in Africa (July 12th-18th, 2022) ended in Bujumbura. Below is a list of some aspects highlighted by the 21 confreres attending t…

On July 19th-22nd, 2022, the XXVI elective assembly of the Conference of Religious in Brazil (CRB) was held in Brasilia, Brazil. Renewing the Significance of Religious Life in a Synodal Church was th…

On Monday, July 11th, 2022, at the Institute Catholique de Paris, our confrere Fr. Pierre Thierry Emalieu Pene s.x. defended his thesis for the Master’s Degree in theology of religions. Title of hi…