On Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025, the mayor of Bukavu, Mr. Ladys MUGANZA WAKANDWA, inaugurated an avenue named after the Xaverian Missionary who founded, built and for 20 years managed the Institut Supéri…

A year after the beatification of the Martyrs from Uvira, the General Postulation of the Xaverian Missionaries publishes the second, revised and updated edition of the French biography of blessed Alb…

The news published on Flash on Saturday, July 26th, 2025, about the Novitiate in Bintaro, Jakarta, Indonesia, failed to point out that among the 10 novices one comes from “the Philippine archipelago”.

The Lord has granted me the grace to participate with joy, determination and enthusiasm in the 13th Work Camp entitled “Signs of Hope”, in Cagliari, Sardinia, at the house of the Xaverian Missionarie…

“Migrants, missionaries of hope” is the theme of Pope Leo XIV’s message for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The celebration of the Day will not take place as usual on the last Sunday in…

A new step towards a possible solution to the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is being taken. A peace agreement is scheduled to be signed on August 17th, 2025, in Doha between the…

The new Ambassador of Taiwan to the Holy See, His Excellency Mr. Anthony C. Y. Ho, has taken up (July 3rd, 2025) the post of “diplomatic representative for the government of the Republic of China” (R…

On Friday, August 01, 2025, Mrs. Angelina Tonoli, aged 91, mother of our confrere Fr. Claudio Codenotti, passed away in Gussago, Brescia, Italy. Fr Claudio is a member of the Shinmeizan community (Ce…

On Sunday, July 27th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in the church of St. Guido Maria Conforti Parish, Bukavu-Panzi, D.R. Congo, our confreres Gilbert KAHASHA MUBALAMA, Dieudonné OMBENI BAGALANE …

Issue NO. 137 of iSaveriani - Notiziario (corresponding to the General Council No. 07, May - June 2025) has been uploaded on the GD’s website.  The contents of this issue include: &nbs…

New light is being shed on the missionary presence among the peoples of Amazonia. Prof. Mario Polia, anthropologist, historian of religions and great connoisseur of Andean cultures, has edited the pu…

On July 7th, 2025, in the Continental Xaverian Novitiate – known as Maison des Martyrs de la Fraternité (Martyrs of Fraternity Home) – the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Ro…

Our 10 novices in the Indonesian circumscription started their Novitiate Year on July 15th, 2025, at the Novitiate House in Bintaro, Jakarta, Indonesia. They come from different parts of the Indonesi…

From July 20th to August 15th, 2025, the 2nd Meeting of Ongoing Formation for confreres who have already gained a 5-year-long missionary experience in Africa is taking place in Ki…

35 years ago, the missionary association Cuore Amico Fraternità ETS, founded by Fr. Mario Pasini, a priest and journalist from Brescia (Italy), established the Premio Cuore Amico …

Antropologia, Bibbia, Religioni: un approccio multidisciplinare (ABRAM) (Anthropology, Bible, Religions: A Multi-disciplinary Approach) is the title of an academic programme produced by the coop…

From 13th to 20th, July 2025, the 13th Caritas International Summer Camp was held in Cagliari, Sardinia, at the Xaverian house in Via Sulcis. About a hundred young people, aged between 16 a…

Please, note that the only valid and operational email address of Fr. Josè Guadalupe Robledo Sánchez, Rector of the European Theologate, Desio, Milano-Brianza, is: [email protected] The emai…

“We don’t know whom to pray. Nobody knows what will happen, and whether there will be soon an end.” These are words of Depolin Wabo, a Congolese humanitarian operator belonging to the Internatio…

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, at 1:00 p.m., in the Chapel of the Pre-novitiate and Novitiate in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico, three young confreres will make their First Religious and Missionary Profess…

On Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., in the parish of Kayogoro, Diocese of Rutana, Burundi, our confrere Pie NIYIBIZI will receive the Order of the Presbyterate through the laying on o…

On Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in the parish church of Saint Guido Maria Conforti, in Bukavu-Panzi, Democratic Republic of Congo, our confreres Gilbert KAHASHA MUBALAMA, Dieudonné…

On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez returned to Rome after visiting the confreres in Cameroon and Burundi.

From July 1st to 15th , 2025, 13 young Xaverian Missionaries from across Asia gathered in Bangkok for a time of Ongoing Formation. Fr. Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto sx, from…

The Continental Meeting of Vocation Directors and Formators in Africa - Initial Formation was held in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 7 - 12 July 2025. The theme of the meeting: ‘Basic Formation a…

On Saturday, July 12, 2025, the 1st Continental Ongoing Formation Course began. Sixteen confreres gathered at the Regional House (Domus) in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, comin…

On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Brasília, Brazil, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), the new magazine "Missão & Culturas" was officially launched. This publication aims…

"Today, July 8, 2025, the Diocese of Makeni celebrates the 75th anniversary—or Diamond Jubilee—of the presence and pastoral service of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone. This historic celebra…

The website of the Xaverian Delegation in the Philippines - https://philippines.xaverians.org/ - has published some reflections on the catechumenate experience at St. Francis Xavier Parish, by member…

The Philippines is the world's second-largest producer of nickel, after Indonesia. However, nickel mining—critical for producing electric vehicle batteries and various types of stainless steel—presen…

On Saturday, July 12, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Motherhouse in Parma, Italy, our confrere, Fr. Alberto Damiano Lanaro, passed away after a long illness. Fr. Alberto was 84 years old, having been born…

On Saturday, July 19th, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., in Kayogoro Parish, Diocese of Rutana, Burundi, our confrere Pie Niyibizi will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands and the prayer of ordinati…

The biographical sketch of the late Fr. Eulogio Cuéllar Muñoz (d. April 4th, 2025 in Carabanchel, Madrid – Spain) has been uploaded to the website of the General Direction. Many thanks to the editor…

As already announced on FLASH (April 15th issue), https://dg.saveriani.org/es/comunicazioni/notizie/sxaverianews/item/while-preparing-indirizzario-2025-address-book-2025, the deadline set for communi…

In a bare jail cell in Kumamoto Prison, Kyushu, Japan, I recently celebrated the baptism of a 50-year-old lifer. Due to anti-Covid restrictions, there was only me, the inmate and a guard present at t…

On Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025, Pope Leo XIV’s Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation was released. Theme of the message: “Seeds of Peace and Hope.” Pope Leo writes: “…in va…

The Pontifical Commission for Latin America has chaired a Symposium of the Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), the federation of the Bishops’ Conferences of Asia (FABC), and the Bi…

There are those who call for peace and those who actually prepare and build it by interweaving justice, food and fraternity. In this spirit, the 8th edition of Altri Mondi (Different Worlds) filled w…

The book "Chercher Dieu du regard, en l'autre. Une lecture théologique des écrits de Christian de Chergé" (Academic Press, Fribourg), written by our confrere Paolo Tovo, has been published. The volu…

On Monday, July 07th, 2025, at 5.15 p.m., our confrere Fr. Bartolomeo (Meo) Elia, 89, passed away at the Mother House, Parma, Italy. Fr. Bartolomeo was born on March 17th, 1936, in Villafranca Piemon…

On Sunday, July 6th, 2025, at 10:30 a.m., seven young confreres will make their first religious and missionary profession in the Chapel of the Novitiate, in Bintaro, Jakarta, Indonesia. Right now, a…

On Sunday, June 29, 2025, the students of the Theology community in Kinshasa were instituted in the ministry of Lectors and Acolytes. The confreres of the 2nd Year of Theology MURHABAZI BASABANYA Glo…

Our community in Franklin, Wisconsin, held its annual Two-day Mission Festival. This year the event fell on June 21-22, Saturday and Sunday. The purpose of the celebration is Mission Awareness ad gen…

On Thursday, June 26th, 2025, at the Institute Catholique de Paris, France, our confrere Fr. Simon Pierre Oum Oum discussed his MA dissertation (Mémoire) in Moral and Spiritual Theology. Title of his…

Pope Francis claimed that a “third world war in pieces” is raging. Now it seems that those pieces are coming together, and, as a result, the sound of guns is becoming more and more deafening. Despite…

The website of the Xaverian Italian region, www.saveriani.it, has posted an article by our confrere Fr. Luciano Mazzocchi under the title “L’inchino del Ministro della cultura del Giappone alla chies…

On 8 June 2025, our confrere Fr. Rocco Viviano was invited to speak at an international, interreligious conference titled ‘Dialogic Human Dignity: Legal and Religious Perspectives’. The event, held i…

“There is enough money for weapons, but not enough for food, shelter, medicine and education. Discrimination, inequality and manipulation of human beings are against the covenant in the blood of Jesu…

The recently signed agreement between the University of Salento (Lecce - Italy) and the Pontifical Gregorian University, which activates a curriculum for a double degree in philosophy, will become ef…

Dear confreres, Following the recommendations of the 18th General Chapter, N° 95, we, superiors of the Xaverian Circumscriptions in Africa, met in Bafoussam, Cameroon, from June 15 to 22, 2025 at th…