Our Fatima Shrine here in Holliston, Massachusetts, USA, is also known locally for the Rosary Walk - a sculpted boulders Rosary beads. Last week, it was featured by the CBS News Boston – the local T…

On Wednesday 11, June 2025, at 8.30 p.m. at the Complesso San Cristo – Chruch, Via Piamarta 9, Brescia, the Italian actor and theatre director Elio Germano, nephew of our confrere Fr. Antonio Germano…

The life of the Laity Family continues as usual, but there are also some special events. Serena Rolandi and Alberto Chiappari have presented the activities of the Laity at the Regional Chapter of the…

On Friday, May 30th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., the Xaverian Community (Viale Vaticano 40) in Rome gathered in Piazza Pia (Rome), where the pilgrims’ lane (a preferential track to facilitate pilgrims) leadi…

The 8th Buddhist-Christian Colloquium on the theme “Buddhists and Christians Working Together for Peace through Reconciliation and Resilience” was held from May 27th to 29th, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia…

On Friday 6th, June 2025, at 8 a.m. (Bukavu time), at the Major Hospital of Bukavu (HPGRB), Democratic Republic of the Congo, our confrere Fr. Donatien Lwiyando Mujishamba passed away after a serious…

Secretariat of State, General Affairs, May 13th, 2025   Rev. Fr. Fernando, On the joyful occasion of the election to the Chair of Peter of the Holy Father Leo XIV, guardian and guide of the f…

On Sunday, June 8th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in St. Guido M. Conforti Shrine, Mother House, Parma, our confreres Jan Nahak Valerius, Yohanes Nicholindo Putra Geli Gowin, Didier Aksanti Mulondanyi and Fr…

On May 19th, 2025, based on consultations conducted by the confreres in Mozambique, the Superior General, with the consent of his Councillors, appointed the new Delegation Council of Mozambique: Sup…

For us, Xaverian Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters, each celebration of the feast of Mother Celestina’s “Yes!” is a celebration of our own “Yes!”, that of every day following Christ. This year…

On Friday May 23rd, 2025, in the afternoon, we left the Mother House to go on pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of the Holy Rosary, Fontanellato. We left full of joy, with a spirit of fraternity…

“I would like to be a Fr. Albert Joubert here in the Philippines.” This was the moving statement of Fr. Reynaldo Reyes, a diocesan priest from the Diocese of Pasig, in the Philippines. Like Fr. Alber…

On May 22, 2025, the Tokyo Interfaith Council, sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Japan, welcomed our confrere Fr Rocco Viviano for a lecture on “The Election of a Pope.”…

Below is a text prepared by Sr. Rosetta Mancini (born 1931) on behalf of the community of the Xaverian Sisters-Missionaries of Mary in Rome (Via Trionfale 7515), which she read it before the Eucharis…

From 27 to 29 May 2025, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the 8th International Buddhist-Christian ‘Colloquium’ was held, organised by the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, together with Buddhist univers…

Over the weekend of May 17th’18th, 2025, we, the Council of the Xaverian Laity, gathered at the House of the General Direction in Rome. This was the last meeting of this Council which is about the en…

During the Thursdays of the months of April and May 2025, our confrere Fr. Tiziano Tosolini, lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, was invited to hold a Seminar on Introd…

The food emergency has reached an all-time high in the DRC. The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a food alert for millions of people. In the eastern provinces of this African Country, as clarifi…

In few weeks, more than 25,000 people were forced to leave their homes in Mozambique. This number is in addition to the approximately 1.3 million people who, forced by armed conflict, cyclones and dr…

On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, at 01.15 a.m. (local time) - after a serious illness - our confrere Fr. Lino Sgarbossa passed away at the Xaverian Community of the IV Floor, Mother House, Parma. Fr. Lino…

Issue NO. 136 of iSaveriani-Notiziario (subsequent to the 6th meeting of the General Council– March 2025) has been uploaded on the GD’s website. The contents of this issue include: the Superior Gener…

The African Study Centre has resumed its publications after the interruption due to the outbreak of the covid-19 virus. Under the title ‘the conversion of the missionary’, borrowed from the French Je…

On Wednesday, May 14, the traditional meeting between the Catholic Theological Faculty and the Presbyterian Theological School took place, at the venue of the Catholic Faculty. During the meeting, ou…

From May 14th to 16th, 2025, the Japanese Major Superiors’ Conference was held in Karuizawa (Nagano prefecture, Japan), in a mood of conviviality and fraternity. In attendance were also the Apostolic…

On Saturday 17 May 2025, together with my confreres Nicolas Chiza Hombo, François Shamavu Mateso and Dieudonné Twahirwa, I partecipated in a moment of prayer and sharing with the community of Sant'Eg…

‘La Vita Cattolica’, Settimanale del Friuli (the Weekly Newspaper of Friuli), of 21 May 2025, reports a short interview with our confrere Fr. Joe Matteucig (member of the Xaverian community in Taipei…

Saturday, May 24th, marks the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China: “Sustain all those in China, who, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love. May they never be afraid t…

On Monday, May 19th, 2025, at 11:40 p.m. (local time), due to heart failure, our confrere Fr. Eugenio Juárez Hernández passed away at Clinic I West, Bafoussam, Cameroon. Fr. Eugenio was born in Ceran…

‘Pressenza’ is an international thematic news agency dedicated to peace, non-violence, non-discrimination and human rights. It releases news via its website. On Monday, 12 May 2025, “Pressenza” publ…

“…The editor of the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Trent, “Vita Trentina”, invited our confrere Fr Gabriele Ferrari to share a brief reflection on the election of Pope Leo XIV. Fr. Gabriele writ…

I attended the Seminar on “Protecting God’s Children” in St. John Evangelist Parish (Hopkinton, Massachusetts). This is a requirement from the Archdiocese of Boston for the Church Pastors, Religious…

Saturday May 10, 2025, confreres Richard Niyukuri (Burundi) and Yunis Martinus Zalukhu (Indonesia) received the order of deacons at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Maligaya, Quezon City, through the i…

The 103rd Assembly of the Union of Superior Generals (USG) will be held from May 21st to 23rd, 2025, at the residence Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano, Rome. In keeping with the Jubilee Year, the theme of…

“It is time for wide heart and clean eyes”: this is how, on November 1st, 1958, Fr. Primo Mazzolari, parish priest in Bozzolo (Mantua, Italy), commented on the Conclave (October 25th-28th, 1958) that…

On Thursday, May 8th, 2025, Elouana IKORIVYIZA, 4 years old, sister of our Perpetually Professed confrere Frédéric Mutonde, passed away in Gisikara (Gitega province), Burundi. Our confrere Frédéric i…

“Peace be with you! Dearest brothers and sisters, this was the first greeting of the risen Christ, the good shepherd who gave His life for the flock of God. I, too, would like this greeting of peace…

On Saturday, May 10th, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., in the church of St Francis Xavier Parish, Maligaya, Diocese of Novaliches, Quezon City, the Philippines, our confreres Martinus Zalukhu Yunis and Richard N…

On Friday, May 9th, 2025, Frs. Fabien Kalehezo T'Chiribuka and Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto returned to Rome after visiting the confreres of the Indonesian Circumscription and participating in the…

The 7th Meeting of the General Council will be held in the General House from May 12th to the first week of June 2025. Items in the agenda include: visits to the circumscriptions; continental meeting…

Following the speech of our confrere, Fr. Andrea Facchetti, on the occasion of the Mozambican President’s visit to Tete Province, Mozambique, (https://dg.saveriani.org/es/comunicazioni/notizie/sxave…

“At this particular moment in the life of the Church – consider the death of Pope Francis and the celebration of the Jubilee ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ – the 17th Regional Chapter took place in San Pietro in…

We, Xaverians of the Mozambican Delegation, gathered in Sena, from Wednesday April 30th to Friday May 2nd, to hold       the first of the two yearly assemblies of our ci…

Our confrere, Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli, re-reads the first catechesis (Parma, January 14th, 1917) by our Founder St Guido Maria Conforti, which deals with the prayer taught by Jesus Christ. Fr. Alfiero r…

On Saturday, May 24th, 2025, the yearly Convention organised by the magazine Missione Oggi will be held at Complesso San Cristo, Chapel and Romanino hall, Via Piamarta 9, Brescia, Italy. The Conventi…

On Saturday, May 10th, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., in the church of St Francis Xavier Parish, Maligaya, Diocese of Novaliches, Quezon City, the Philippines, our confreres Martinus Zalukhu Yunis and Richard N…

The XVII Regional Chapter of the Italian Circumscription completed the election of the new Regional Direction (May 1st, 2025) for the four-year term (2025 - 2029) Bishop Natale Paganelli   …

From April 29th to May 3rd 2025, the Meeting of Vocation Promoters and Formators in Asia took place in Mutilan, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The meeting was attended by 19 confreres from all the…

On Thursday, April 24th, 2025, our confrere, Fr. Andrea Facchetti, pastor of St Peter Claver Parish in Charre, Diocese of Tete, Mozambique, led the “Prayer of the Catholic Church on the occasion of t…

On Thursday, April 24, the first online meeting of the Central Committee for International Volunteering was held, coordinated by Fr. Alex Brai s.x., together with the representatives from the various…

In the context of the Holy Year that we are living as a Catholic Church, the Xaverian Community of Philosophy, located in Curitiba city, Paraná state - Brazil, created the space “Esperançar” (“to hav…