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 Kagarabi Cibangala and Servasius Haryon...

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 h...

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 diffic...

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 Uv...

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 ...

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 Lópe...

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 Episc...

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 Pov...

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...

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 ...

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 inhabite...

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 ref...

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'...

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 Kagarabi Cibangala and Servasius Haryon...

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 w...

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 variou...

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...

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 prov...

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...

In celebration of the Easter Vigil at the St. Francis Xavier Parish, Maligaya-Manila, last March 30, 2024, three Catechumens were officially welcomed to the Catholic Community as they received the ...

The printed edition of Stato del Personale 2024 (Personnel Directory 2024) updated on March 28th, 2024, is out and will soon be mailed to the circumscriptions. On the website of the General Direct...

The entire area of Chad that borders with Sudan – more than 1000 Km – belongs to the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo, as Br. Fabio Mussi (PIME) explains. Thanks to the lay leaders of the diocesan Cari...

On Saturday, April 13th, 2024, Mr Gilberto Alvisi, 84-year-old brother of our late confrere Edmondo Alvisi (+ 1996), passed away in Cesena, Italy. The Requiem Mass and funerary rites were celebrate...

On Saturday, April 13th, 2024, the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, returned to Rome after participating in the General Assembly of the Cameroon-Chad Circumscription that was held i...

From Wednesday April 17th to Tuesday May 7th, 2024, Father General, Fernando García Rodríguez, will be with the confreres of the Indonesian Circumscription. Along with general councillors Fr. Suda...

On Saturday, April 13th, 2024, the Vicar General, Fr. Mauro Loda, will go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With General Councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka, Fr. Mauro Loda will take ...

On Saturday, April 13th, 2024, General Councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will leave Cameroon, where he has taken part in the General Assembly of the Circumscription held in Garoua (Cameroo...

The Circumscription of Indonesia will hold its XVIII Regional Chapter in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia, from April 23rd to 30th, 2024. The theme selected for the chapter meetings is Mission and Euchar...

Starting on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024, the XIV Regional Chapter of the Congolese circumscription will be held at the Regional Domus in Muhumba, Bukavu. General Councillor and reference person for...

For some years we have been toying with the idea of developing a sort of Lay Xaverian group with people who want to learn more about the Xaverian Spirituality and the Xaverian Stile of Mission. Fin...

Because of the beatification of the Venerable Servants of God Carrara and companion martyrs, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, in the rescript of February 27, 2024, gave the bishop of Uvira, ...

On the occasion of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the presence of the Xaverian Missionaries in Burundi, the Xaverian circumscription is organizing, on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at the ...

A meeting on the theme Il cammino del Vangelo in Africa: l’Esempio della Sierra Leone  (The Journey of the Gospel in Africa: the Case of Sierra Leone) was held on Friday, April 5th, 2024, at 8...

In his message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis invites all Christians to welcome our common call to seed seeds of hope and peace in the world. “Our life finds fulfilment - writ...

Saturday, May 11th, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the magazine Missione Oggi will hold its yearly convention in the Xaverian House in Brescia and in streaming on the YouTube channel of Missione Oggi...

On Monday, April 8, 2024, at 6.45 pm, our confrere Fr. Renato Trevisan passed away in the Mother House, Parma – Italy. He was in his 80s, having been born on December 4, 1943, in Caldogno, province...

The confreres of the Cameroon-Chad Region gathered for the General Assembly, from 02 to 05 April 2024, in the city of Garoua, in Northern Cameroon. In this General Assembly meeting, with the partic...

Yesterday morning (April 3rd, 2024 – ed.) at around 7:58 am, a strong earthquake (7.2-7.4), the strongest since 1999 (9/21 with over 2400 deceased), hit Taiwan. The quake happened in Hualien (the c...

Our perpetual-professed confrere Isidore Kawaya Idumbo, currently studying language in Yogyakarta as part of his Overseas Training Programme in Indonesia, shares two songs whose text and music he h...

Easter does not wipe Good Friday away. Easter means not giving up in the face of fear and pain, despair and death. Easter is to begin again each day as pilgrims of hope, with the Risen-Crucifix in ...

Fordongianus, Oristano, Sardinia (Italy), March 2024. I warmly thank you for your letter of good wishes on the occasions of Christmas and the New Year 2024. I pray to the Risen Christ that you miss...

From Ancona, Roberta Brasili describes the training meeting of the local group. It was an occasion for remembering dear persons who left us recently and sharing about difficult times which, fortuna...

On Friday, March 8th, 2024, vigil of Ramadan, the management of Salerno Prison authorised the Ero in Carcere group of the Xaverian Family to distribute prayer mats and copies of the Quran to inmate...

Last Saturday, March 23, our theologate community of Manila held an Interreligious Seminar on SUFISM. Our speaker, Darwin Absari, a Muslim professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies-University o...

In the journey of Wednesday catecheses on vices and virtues, Pope Francis has reached the last in the list of vices: pride.   “The ancient Greeks defined it with a word that could be translat...

On Holy Friday, March 29th, 2024, Mrs Angiola Filippi née Sottocornola, 87-year- old sister of our confreres Franco and Antonio Sottocornola, passed away in Bergamo, Italy. The Requiem Mass and fun...

Dear confreres and friends: "I have seen the Lord!" exclaims Mary Magdalene to the disciples, her heart overflowing with joy. In this Easter time, what better desire can we have than to make our o...

On Tuesday, March 26th , 2024, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez returned to Rome after a visit to the confreres in Morocco.

From Friday, March 29th, to Friday, April 12th, 2024, Father General Fernando García Rodríguez along with General Councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka, will take part in the Yearly Assembly o...

On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024, General Councillor Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will go to Indonesia where, along with Fr. Sudarmanto who is already there, he will pay visit to some communities of...