On Tuesday, October 1st, 2024, a large group of Xaverian Missionaries and Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters from Parma made the traditional pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary o…

On the evening of October 14th, 1874, our confrere Fr. Valeriano Cobbe’s adventure in Bangladesh was interrupted by a gunshot. He had been working for 12 years in the then East Pakistan to give back…

On the occasion of Desio Day (Milan, MB) and the ceremony for the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the City of Desio, on Saturday, October 5, 2024, the public merits for the year 2024 will be…

October is the month of World Mission Day. Numerous the proposals for the promotion of mission awareness in parish communities. Four Xaverians of the community in Vicenza took the commitment to prese…

The European Forum team invites the Xaverian Charismatic Family, in its various components present in Europe, to the SEMINAR of reflection on the Xaverian Mission in Europe on Friday, November 8, 202…

The video, prepared by our confreres of the Xaverian circumscription of Thailand, presents the prayer experience of Bank and Meti, two Thai students who are candidates for the Xaverian life. “Our Fo…

Maestro Marina Greco - professor of piano studies at Conservatorio di Latina, Lazio, Italy, and actively involved in the Xaverian Documentation Centre in Rome – has organised a webinar on Saturday, O…

In the context of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of foundation of the Guadalupe Missioanries, the Third International Missionary Symposium was held at the Universidad Intercontinental of Mex…

The September issue of Buddhismo Magazine (the official Journal of the Italian Buddhist Union) included among the list of its recommended books for the month also a short presentation of the volume p…

In the first half of 2024, global humanitarian needs grew from 46.6 billion US Dollars in January 2024 to the current 48.7 billion Dollars. Conflicts and violence have caused increased displacement a…

On Friday, October 4th, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., in St. Fransiskus dari Assisi Parish Church, Padang Baru, Diocese of Padang (Sumatra, Indonesia), our confrere Gregorius Purba Nagara will be ordained deac…

On Friday, September 20th, 2024, the General Directions of the Xaverian Missionaries and the Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters met for a first common reflection on the Xaverian Charismatic Fami…

Personally, the Mass of thanksgiving for the beatification of our four martyrs (Vittorio Faccin, Giovani Didonè, Luigi Carrara and Albert Joubert) has been an occasion for reviewing and thinking agai…

Sixty years of Xaverian religious profession. I often think back to the moment I took the decision to leave my small village and become a missionary. That was a step that would lead to the commitment…

In preparation for the beatification of the Martyrs of Fraternity last August 18, 2024, the diocesan beatification commission has set up several sub-commissions in different fields. As part of the pr…

Our confreres Frs. Rafael López Villaseñor and Stefano Raschietti have published a book "Interfaces da missão a partir da América Latina" (Mission faces starting from Latin America"). The publication…

“A first reflection that comes naturally after this journey is that in thinking of the Church, we are still too Eurocentric, or as they say, “western”. But in reality, the Church is much bigger, much…

On Sunday, September 22nd, 2024, at 9:30 p.m. (local time), our 90-year-old confrere, Fr. Angelino (Lino) Maggioni passed away in the Xaverian Community of the Fourth Floor, Mother House, Parma, Ital…

One month after the beatification in Uvira, DRC, of blessed martyrs Vittorio Faccin, Luigi Carrara, Giovanni Didonè, and Albert Joubert, the Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints…

On Saturday, September 14th, 2024, 33 young people from different Xaverian regions and delegations in Africa, officially started their Pre-noviciate year in the community of Xaverian Noviciate and Pr…

While reflecting on the hand-written documents left by the Founder, we, the staff in charge of the General Archive and the Archive of the Italian Region, realised that those documents (letters, homil…

On September 11th, 2024, the Xaverian Region of Mexico handed over the parish in Santa Cruz, Huejutla, Hidalgo, to Msgr. José Hiraís Acosta, Bishop of Huejutla, during a Eucharistic celebration presi…

Thanks to the work of MissioNET, a series of Videos on the activities of the Xaverian Missionaries in Spain and Morocco is being produced. Video n. 1 on “Prayer and Mission” has just been released. T…

On September 7th, 2024, we, a small group of friends, met to mark our 35th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. We were Frs. Sergio Galimberti (Libi), Tiziano Tosolini, Marco Moro and Sergio…

La Civiltà Cattolica, issue n. 4181, September 7th, 2024, reports an interview with Xaverian Sister Maria De Giorgi of Shinmeizan on “Mission in Japan: Witness and Dialogue” conducted by the journal…

The weekend of September 14/15 seen the end of an era for the Region in the Archdiocese of Glasgow. After a presence of more than 25 years and 6 parishes our time in the Archdiocese has come to an en…

Pope Francis’ last meeting in Singapore was with youth belonging to different religions. Singapore was the last leg of a trip that, from Rome, took the Pope to very far lands. On Friday, September 13…

On September 12th, 2024, the president of the Associazione Culturale “Antonio Rosmini” (Trento, Italy), invited our confrere, Fr. Gabriele Ferrari, to give a talk on the personality of Msgr. Faustino…

Starting in September 2024, new exciting cultural activities, including children's events dedicated to the art of ceramics: the first one on Wednesday, September 18th, 2024. https://www.parmatoday.i…

Every year since 2015, the faithful of the Parish of San Guido Maria Conforti in Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi, join the entire Xaverian Charismatic Family to reflect on the lives of the three Xaverian…

On Saturday, September 7-2024, the members of the Xaverian Noviciate of Bujumbura “Martyrs de la Fratérnité” (Martyrs of Fraternity) joined by some Xaverian fathers of Kamenge Parish and some Xaveria…

There are things we think will never happen. Well, this time, one such thing happened to me: on September 12th, 2024, with other confreres, I will celebrate my 70th year anniversary of religious life…

The third monthly digital update of Stato del Personale 2024 (Personnel Directory 2024) has been uploaded. We urge all confreres, but especially the Superiors of Circumscription, to keep their Circum…

On Thursday, September 12th, 2024, our confrere Brother Giomar Henrique Clemente defended his Dissertation for a master’s in psychology with a specialisation in Social Psychology at the Department of…

CONFERENCE 03 Monsignor Honoré Barhewa, Vicar General of the Diocese of Uvira, DRC, gave the third lecture based on the Johannine text: “There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one…

Pope Francis’ message is divided in two parts. The first is dedicated to God’s presence among his walking people. It is about the walking “with” that is so important in the experience of the people o…

In Papua New Guinea, a country with 841 different languages, during a meeting with the bishops, priests, catechists and religious men and women, a catechist asked Pope Francis this question: “how can…

On “International Day of the Disappeared”, in Mexico, groups of women belonging to the collective Guerreros Buscadores began to search for their disappeared relatives. They started by praying togethe…

Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka returned to Rome after a visit (September 3rd - 8th, 2024) to the confreres of the community in Nogent Sur Marne, Paris, France. 

Frs. Mauro Loda and Felipe Orozco returned to Rome after a visit (September 2nd - 7th, 2024)  to the confreres of the Circumscription of Spain-Morocco during which they participated in the Assem…

From September 13th to early October 2024, the General Council will hold the fourth cycle of its meetings. Issues in the agenda are: admissions to Perpetual Professions; preparation to the meeting of…

The first two conferences organized by the local Church, in various languages, in preparation for the beatification are available on the DG website. The video (YouTube) of the conferences is also ava…

From Tuesday 01 October 2024 to Saturday 05 October 2024, our confreres members of the General Commission for Ongoing Formation will meet at the General House, Rome, together with the General Directi…

The Church is not the only teacher of life, history is one too. As I look back on my past and analyse it, I realise I went through changes of all kinds – social, affective, ministerial and spiritual…

…Some of us survivors of that group of 25 "audacious" young men who were ordained to the missionary priesthood back on October 25, 1964, finding ourselves occasionally in the Mother House in Parma, t…

During an audience granted on Friday, August 30th, 2024, to the participants of the extraordinary plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Evangelisation – Section for First Evangelisation and New Local…

Apart from facilitating the crossing of a highway, the pedestrian underpass called Fraternity Tunnel connects Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral Church and Istiqlal Mosque (or “Freedom” Mosque). Th…

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, Father General returned to Rome from his trip to the Democratic Republic of the Cong and Burundi.

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, the Vicar General returned to Rome from Paris, France, where he took a French language course.

On Thursday, August 29th, 2024, General Councillor, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka made his return to Rome from his trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.