The Newsletter of the Xaverian Missionaries
On Monday, March 18th, 2024, the XI Cultural Forum of the Musée de Kivu was held at the Maison Régionale Domus/Muhumba, Bukavu, DRC on the topic: "TO UNDERSTAND THE PHENOMENON OF SORCERY".
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22 March 2024
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Our confrere Fr. Pierre Thierry Emaliu Pene, a member of the Xaverian community in Paris, France, shares a reflection titled Repartir de la Mission (Starting Afresh from Mission). In the introducti...
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22 March 2024
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For the Xaverian community in Vicenza, 2024 is a blessed and challenging year. There will be the beatification of two Vicentino Xaverians: Brother Vittorio Faccin, who was born in Villaverla (VI); ...
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22 March 2024
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“What If We Put What We Say into Practice!” is the title that our confrere Stanislas Bisimwa Barhonyi s.x., member of the Theologate in Kinshasa, DRC, chose for his reflection on the situation of h...
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22 March 2024
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The Xaverian Sisters - Missionaries of Mary were born eighty years ago, on May 24th, 1944, out of a “Yes!” uttered by Celestina Bottego in answer to the project of the Xaverian Fr. Giacomo Spagnolo...
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22 March 2024
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During an audience granted to the participants in the XXXIV Course on the Internal Forum (March th-8th-, 2024) and in the context of both the Lent season and the year of prayer in preparation for t...
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22 March 2024
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The SEVENTH digital update of INDIRIZZARIO 2022 containing the corrections and additions we received over the past five months (November 3rd, 2023 – March 23rd, 2024) has been uploaded on the GD’s ...
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22 March 2024
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He did not tell anyone when he returned from the meeting of Religious in Vicenza: we learned about it from an article in the pages of the diocesan newspaper La Voce dei Berici. Our Fr. Carlos Eduar...
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22 March 2024
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Vatican City, February 29th, 2024
No. 628.457
(letter to the General Postulator – ed.)
Most Reverend Father,
I am glad to inform you that Pope Francis has welcomed the proposal to celebrate the...
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15 March 2024
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From the Rite of Beatification. Homily by Pope John Paul II, read by Card. Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State:
The mission 'ad gentes' was likewise one of the fundamental points of apostolic action...
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15 March 2024
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From Tuesday March 19th to Tuesday March 26th, 2024, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez will pay a visit to the confrere that live in Morocco.
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15 March 2024
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From Tuesday March 19th , to Tuesday May 7th, 2024, Fr. Sudarmanto will be in Indonesia. Apart from a special visit to the formation communities, Fr. Sudarmanto is going to take part in the XVIII R...
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15 March 2024
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From the Final Message:
This General Commission for Basic Formation is a response to the request made by the XVIII General Chapter, and it is a way of journeying together by sharing responsibilit...
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15 March 2024
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Fr. Giuseppino Dovigo has kept his promise: “These two biographical sketches (one on Fr. Carrara will surely become available in the future) are a small contribution; they aim to ignite the desire ...
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15 March 2024
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Our magazine "Missione Oggi" inaugurated 2024 with a dossier primarily dedicated to the Africa of the Great Lakes, a region (DR Congo and Burundi) where the Xaverian fathers, brothers, and sisters ...
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15 March 2024
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The first meetings of Xaverian Lay Missionaries are taking place at our community in Franklin, Wisconsin. We are grateful to Don Mueller, a long time friend and former director of the Mission Offic...
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15 March 2024
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On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at Wisma Conforti (Conforti House) in Jakarta, the pastoral and formation communities from Yogyakarta and Jakarta had a "zone meeting." In addition to learning together...
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15 March 2024
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On the morning of March 7, 2024 the confreres of the Philippine delegation met for their usual bimonthly meeting, “sama-sama”. The meeting was enriched by a presentation by Fr. Tiziano Tosolini s.x...
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15 March 2024
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Today, March 9, 2024, at the end of the monthly retreat led by the Superior Delegate Fr. Patrick Santiañez Salazar, confreres Jean Marie Bwinja Muhindo and Othoniel Nininahazwe were instituted into...
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15 March 2024
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Dear Xaverian Missionaries [addressed to Fr. Oliviero Ferro and Fr. Sergio Cambiganu - ed.], thank you for leading this “small flock” (around 50 people each evening), for feeding us with the ...
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15 March 2024
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In December 2023, the Gruppo di Animazione – Giovani in Uscita made a missionary camp in Scampia, one of the most populated districts of Naples, Italy, located in the north of the city. The severe ...
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15 March 2024
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Congolese women took to the streets to make their voices heard. On Friday, March 8th, 2024, they marched through the streets of Bukavu, the capital of South-Kivu, dressed in black as a sign of mour...
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15 March 2024
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A report by the Global Alliance for Banking on Values makes an appeal to reverse the trend: “Finance should stop investing in wars.” “War will feed itself”: this sentence by the ancient Roman histo...
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15 March 2024
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March 24th, 2024, marks the 32nd Missionary Martyrs’ Day. The event originates in the commemoration of St Oscar Romero, who was murdered on the same date in the year 1980. In 1992, in answer to the...
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15 March 2024
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On Wednesday, March 13th, 2024, 79-year-old Mrs Madalena Bortoloci, sister of our confrere João Bortoloci passed away in Criciúma (Santa Caterina – Brazil). The requiem Mass and funerary rites were...
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15 March 2024
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In the new release of Thepopevideo, Pope Francis asks prayers for the new martyrs of our day so that they might “imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive. A martyr is a Christian wh...
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08 March 2024
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From Monday, March 11th, to Thursday, 14th, 2024, the first in-person Meeting of the new General Commission for Economy will take place in Rome. The meeting is going to start with the Father Genera...
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08 March 2024
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On Monday, March 4th, 2024, our confrere Fr. Paulin Batairwa Kubuya, undersecretary of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, visited the important Fo Guang Shan Monastery (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) a...
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08 March 2024
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Our confrere, Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli, member of the Xaverian community in Hortolândia, São Paulo, Brazil, has published a 166-pages booklet titled São Guido Maria Conforti, Profeta da Fraternidade e ...
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08 March 2024
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Also this year the Missionary Initiative will be held together with the usual prize drawing. The event will take place on Sunday, June 9th, in San Cristo, at the house of the Xaverian Missionaries ...
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08 March 2024
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On Saturday, February 24th, 2024, the Community of Theology Students in Parma organised an “African” soirée during which we reflected on the theme of Ubuntu. The traditional African vision of Ubunt...
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08 March 2024
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In the first page of the Bollettino Digitale Agenda, February 2024, the editorial committee provides a summary of the contents of the February issue:
“Apparently, the novelties that we introduced ...
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08 March 2024
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The humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado, northeastern Mozambique, is worsening after a recent wave of violence by non-state armed groups forced an additional 100,000 people - including as many as 6...
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08 March 2024
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On Saturday, February 24th, 2024, a conference on the contribution of religions for the conversion of nuclear weapons into projects of development was organised in Assisi, Italy.
In his speech tit...
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08 March 2024
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On Saturday, March 2nd, 2024, 82-year-old Mrs Adriana Fraire, née Restagno, sister of our late confrere Giovanni Restagno (d. 1966 in Magburaka, Sierra Leone and buried in Makeni, Sierra Leone) pas...
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08 March 2024
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On February 28th, 2024, the Superior General, with the consent of his Council, appointed the new Direction of the Central Delegation:
Superior Delegate: Fr. Mauro Loda s.x.
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01 March 2024
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On Monday, February 26th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda returned to Rome from Coatbridge, UK, where he took part in the Interfaith Symposium and the European Forum at the Conforti Centre.
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01 March 2024
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On Sunday, February 25, 2024, the European Forum meeting participants gathered at the Conforti Center in Coatbridge, United Kingdom.
The meeting was preceded by two study days - Symposium amid fai...
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01 March 2024
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From Monday, February 26th, to Friday, March 01, 2024, the confreres in charge of mission awareness and vocation promotion in our communities of the Italian and Spanish Circumscriptions gathered in...
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01 March 2024
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The annual gathering of the Centro de Estudios Missioneros Latinoamericanos (CEMLA) convened in the Xaverian Community of Medellin, Colombia, spanning from February 26 to March 1, 2024, under the t...
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01 March 2024
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From Monday, March 4th, to Saturday, March 9th, 2024, the new General Commission for Initial Formation will gather in-person for the first time. The meeting will begin with Father General’s greetin...
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01 March 2024
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The website of “MISSIO Vicenza”, the Diocesan Missionary Centre of Vicenza directed by Mr Agostino Rigon, announced the preparation for the 32nd Missionary Martyrs Day. Sunday, March 24th, 2024, ma...
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01 March 2024
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The Christian communities in the diocese of Antipole (the Philippines) – that includes the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Marikina City, where our confreres Emanuele Borelli, Pasteur Mugisho Bisi...
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01 March 2024
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The refugee crisis in Sudan is actually one of the largest in the world. According to United Nations statistics, more than 10 million Sudanese have fled their homes, many taking refuge in countries...
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01 March 2024
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The proposal of a Cuaresma Misionera (missionary Lent), which every year the Xaverian circumscription of Mexico makes to friends and benefactors, has become an appointment awaited and loved by many...
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01 March 2024
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On Friday, February 16th, 2024, while addressing the community of the Seminary of Naples, Italy, Pope Francis urged formators (that include two married couples) and seminarians to be and work in th...
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01 March 2024
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On Friday February 23rd and Saturday February 24th, 2024, the Xaverian Community is hosting, on behalf of the Scottish Bishops Committee on Interreligious Dialogue and participate in an Interfaith ...
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23 February 2024
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From February 23rd to 26th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda will be in Coatbridge, Scotland, to participate in the Interfaith Symposium and European Forum. Both meetings are hosted by the Xaverian Circumscrip...
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23 February 2024
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The news agency sponsored by the PIME missionaries (www.asianews.it) published an article titled “Faustino Tissot e la sua eredità in Cina oggi” (Faustino Tissot and his legacy in today’s Chi...
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23 February 2024
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Our confrere, Fr. Antonio Trettel, member of the Xaverian community of the Maison Régionale in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, after reading other contributions, titles his own sharing “D...
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23 February 2024
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