From Monday, September 2nd, to Saturday, September 7th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda and Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will be in Madrid, Spain, to visit our confreres and to take part in the Assembly of…

From Tuesday, September 3rd, to Sunday 08 September 2024, Fr Fernando García Rodríguez and Fr Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will visit our confreres in Paris, France. 

At the invitation of their respective heads of state and religious leaders, from September 2nd to 13th, Pope Francis will make an Apostolic trip to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapo…

In the coming weeks, some materials such as videos, photos, conference texts of the celebrations and events organized in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the occasion of the beatification of the M…

In preparation for the forthcoming visit of Pope Francis, a study conference, organized by the ‘Studies in inter-religious relations in plural societies (SRP) programme’ and the ‘Asia Research Instit…

Our confrere Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli last week celebrated his 88th birthday. A missionary in Brazil, he belongs to the Xaverian community in Curitiba (south Brazil). Below, he shares a reflection entitl…

On Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th, 2024, the Xaverian Missionaries Br. Giomar Henrique Clemente, Fr. Elvis Ndihokubwayo, Fr. Everson Luiz Kloster, Diego and Ivaelton, carried out a vocatio…

I remember very well the night of September 28th, 1974 (the eve before my ordination): I couldn’t sleep, not even for a minute. I kept asking myself whether I was ready to consecrate myself to Christ…

From Pope Francis’ message: To hope and act with creation, then, means above all to join forces and to walk together with all men and women of good will. In this way, we can help to rethink, “among…

After the last two days in Fnideq, we returned to Salerno yesterday with great gratitude for what we experienced in Morocco. Grateful for having had the opportunity to "be with… "the guests of some s…

On Friday August 23rd, 2024, Mrs. Carmela Casula, sister of our late confrere Fr. Ivaldo Casula (d. 2007, in Makeni, SL), passed away in Guasila, South Sardinia, Italy. The Requiem Mass was celebrate…

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (local time), in Ruteng Cathedral, Flores Island, Indonesia, our confrere Yuventus Yonavan Cahyono will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands an…

The celebration of the beatification of Vittorio, Luigi, Giovanni, and Albert took place in St. Peter's Square of Uvira Cathedral from 9:30 to 13:00. It brought together about 15,000 people, who part…

The Icon of the Martyrs of Fraternity is available and downloadable in high definition. Simply click on the red bar. https://dg.saveriani.org/it/multimedia/foto/martiri/item/icona-dei-martiri-della-…

Preceded by two evenings of animation and adoration in the parish of St. Bernard in Kinshasa, DRC, the beatification of the four martyrs was an awaited and prepared celebration. At the beginning of t…

In the words of Alessandra Lisippo, "...This is the message that Umphang, this village on the border with Myanmar, seems to want to convey to me...The respect the children have for the adults, the ab…

For more than 20 years the CSA has been reflecting and proposing to the attention of the Congregation and the Church the theme of Conversion and of our contribution to this miracle, the work of God i…

Once again this year, as every year since 2003, at the request of Kitakyushu University of Industrial Medicine, on August 3rd-5th and August 18th-20th, Shinmeizan organized two short training courses…

The Founder of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary, the Venerable Mother Celestina Bottego, died forty-four years ago. In the little but precious book that collects the reflections of some theolo…

Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici and Bernardetta Boggia were three of our sisters. They were cruelly slaughtered ten years ago, on September 7th and 8th, 2014, in Kamenge (Burundi). Upon receiving that…

On Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, the Xaverian missionaries will hand in Santa Cruz Parish to the local church. As early as October 29th, 1974, Fr. Achille Figini arrived to this small community of…

Below we share a message from Sr. María Aureliana Aguirre Rodríguez, former Superior General of the Passionist Sisters in Mexico, who is currently missionary in Lubumbashi, DRC: “It is with great jo…

For the internally displaced people of the Democratic Republic of Congo – in total more than seven million, of which about two and a half million are in the sole province of Northern Kivu – selling f…

On Wednesday, August 14th, 2024, Religious Sister Rosaria Amato, sister of Fr. Sebastiano Amato, passed away. Fr. Sebastiano is a member of the Xaverian community of Kindu – Basoko (Cité de Jeunes)…

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (local time), in Ruteng Cathedral, Flores Island, Indonesia, our confrere Yuventus Yonavan Cahyono will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands an…

Father General's reflection on the Beatification of the Martyrs of Baraka and Fizi, Uvira, DRC has been uploaded on the DG website. The beatification of three Xaverian confreres and the diocesan prie…

Since Friday, August 09, 2024, our confreres in our communities and the Christians in their respective parishes have been praying the Novena in preparation for the beatification, with the possibility…

Our confrere Fr Juan Juárez García has prepared an activity book for children and young people on the 4 martyrs. Besides providing a range of biographical information on these 4 witnesses, the exerci…

Once again, this year, as every year since 1987, on August 4th, the “Summit of Religions” took place on Mount Hiei in Kyoto, the headquarters of Tendai Buddhism. The Summit, which is Japan’s most imp…

Three new profiles have been uploaded on the DG website in these days: Fr Giuseppe Ibba, Fr Fernando Abis and Br Renato Tosatto. We would like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt thank…

Pope Francis wrote a Letter on the role of literature in formation, which he addressed to priests, to “all pastoral agents,” but also to “every Christian.” Anyone who has an educational role is calle…

The Dicastery for Evangelization has appointed our confrere Fr Alfonsus Widhiwiryawan as National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies (POM) in Indonesia for a five-year term. He will begi…

According to the annual report by the Indigenist Missionary Council (C.I.MI.)– an agency of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference that has been committed to defending native peoples for more than half a…

“The devastation is getting worse every day,” said Sheku Jusu, 36, conservation officer of Sierra Leone’s “National Protected Areas Autority,” the agency tasked with preserving the country’s biodiver…

Fr. Faustino Turco, the Postulator General, has prepared a booklet in which he narrates the origin of the Marian shrine built by the Xaverian Bishop Danilo Catarzi, the first bishop of the Dioceses o…

The preparation Novena to the beatification of the martyrs of Baraka and Fizi is now also available in the Indonesian language: "Novena Persiapan Beatifikasi Para Martir Uvira (RD Congo) 18 Agustus 2…

After his return to Rome from Spain (Sunday, August 11th, 2024), the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, on Wednesday August 14th, 2024, will head to the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

The iSaveriani Information Bulletin No. 132, corresponding to the III General Council (May-June 2024), has been uploaded to the GD website. It contains Father General's familiar editorial on "Saints…

The meeting of the Centre d’Études Africaines (CEA) was held in Bujumbura (Burundi) from 05 to 08 August 2024. The aim was to evaluate the progress made and to consider how to revitalise the work of…

From July 28th to August 3rd, 2024, the Xaverian Laity in Italy met for their usual summer camp in Nocera Umbra (Perugia, Italy). The camp provides an opportunity for assembly discussion and decision…

Fr Gilbert Mbula Niyitegeka sx, rector of the Theology community in Yaoundé, Cameroon, shared a reflection entitled 'Sans savoir que la communauté n'est pas une organisation, mais une vocation' ('Wit…

The establishment of the Mexican Inter-congregational Institute of Theological Studies (or IFTIM) is one of the most positive memories and events in the history of the Xaverian International Theologa…

Under pressure from student and anti-government protests that have been going on for weeks in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and already left Bangladesh. The head of the army…

They fiercely attack and then flight. This has been going on since 2017 in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost and poorest province. Joint pressure from Mozambican soldiers and their Rwandan and…

On Friday, August 2nd, 2024, Mrs Rosalia N’Bashengo, mom of Fr. Nyagasaza Côme Bideri Mandevu, passed away in Rwanda. Fr. Nyagasaza Côme is currently incardinated ad experimentum in the diocese of La…

On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in the early morning, the volume of water in the Marikina River reached an alarming level due to the continued rain brought by super typhoon Carina. From the manageable 1…

On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, the Xaverian Missionaries celebrated 70 years of presence in Londrina, Paranà, Brazil. To mark this event and as a thanksgiving to God for his goodness and for continuing…

On Wednesday, July 17, 2024, the 4th meeting of the General Bursars of the eight Missionary Institutes of Italian origin (masculine and feminine) was held at the General House of the P.I.M.E. Mission…

The Superior General of the Missionary Society Boa Nova (Good News e.d.), SMBN, (Portugal), Fr. Adelino Ascenso, who, while working as a missionary in Japan, visited Shinmeizan several times, was inv…

On Wednesday, July 31, 2024, the Université Catholique du Congo (UCC) and the Université St Augustin de Kinshasa (USAKIN) closed the academic year. They celebrated the graduation ceremony by awarding…