As a consequence of war, Sudan has been experiencing one of the world’s most severe and, at the same time, least visible humanitarian crises for more than a year. In Sudan there are at least five mil…

On Monday, July 1st, 2024, at 4:15 a.m., our 88-year-old confrere bishop Giorgio Biguzzi passed away at the Hospital of Parma, Italy. He was born on February 4th, 1936 in Calinese, Cesena (Forlì-Cese…

On Saturday, July 6th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in Marie Reine des Apôtres de Mvolye Basilica on Mvolye Hill, Yaoundé, our confrere Séverin Joseph Marie Mvilongo Onana, along with members of other r…

On Saturday, July 6th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in Marie Reine des Apôtres de Mvolye Basilica on Mvolye Hill, Yaoundé, our confreres Ambrosius Agung Surya Mentaram and Adrianus Safrudin, a…

On Saturday, June 29th, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., our novices will make their First Religious and Missionary Profession in St Guido Maria Conforti Parish, Panzi, Bukavu, DRC. Here below, before each name…

“Dear confreres, a cordial greeting to all of you who have accompanied us in these two weeks spent in the dearest places of St. Guido M. Conforti for the celebration of the COSUMA 2024 entitled “Lead…

Our confrere, Fr. Antonio López Villaseñor, currently in Mexico to complete his doctoral studies in Biblical Theology at Universidad Pontificia de México (PUM), published a Mussey-lang…

On Friday, June 21st, 2024, our confrere Fr. Robert Kowa Sado completed the second cycle of specialization in Moral Theology. As stipulated in the two-year study plan of the Alphonsian Acad…

Fr. Faustino Turco, whom the Superior General has appointed as Delegate for Safeguarding of our Institute, created an email account for communications related to issues of sa…

After the last Cosuma, Parma, June 8 – 23, 2024 one of the participants wrote to the confreres of his circumscription to bring the greetings and assure the prayers of the many friends he had met. Par…

We continue the reportage of the meeting of the Xaverian Friends of the Chinese Delegation and the Indonesian Region. See PART I https://dg.saveriani.org/es/comunicazioni/…

During the General Audience on Wednesday, June 12th, 2024, Pope Francis continued his reflections on the Holy Spirit and invited those present to read the Gospel every day. Then, on the subject of ho…

Due to old and new conflicts, the overall number of people forced to flee their homes has been growing for the twelfth consecutive year – reaching 120 million people in May 2024. The plight…

On Sunday, June 23rd, 2024, Mrs Mariana Hariyati, mom of our confrere Antonius Wahyudiyanto, passed away in Lubuk Pakam (North Sumatra, Indonesia). She was 79. Fr. Antonius is the rector of the Xave…

On Friday, June 21st, 2024, in the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico, our confreres Dieudonné Ombeni Bagalane and Rafael Aguilar Flores  were ordained d…

The second week began in the Shrine with Dominical Mass presided by Fr Yohannes Dharmawan adharius, the Regional Superior of Indonesia. In the afternoon we visited the Xaverian Missionary Sister…

On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024, General Councillor Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will visit the communities in the Circumscription of South Brazil, where he will remain till Wednesday, July 18th, 202…

On May 22nd, 2024, a series of activities called “St. Guido Maria Conforti Oratory” (Oratório de São Guido Maria Conforti) were held in the hall of the Xaverian formation house in Ananindeua, Pará, N…

Thursday, June 13th, 2024, the Xaverian Missionaries in Bujumbura celebrated the official closing of the academic year 2023-2024 of the Propaedeutics training programme. As part of the celebration, t…

On the occasion of the visit of Card. Michael Louis Fitzgerald at Shinmeizan last April, the Subcommittee on Interreligious Dialogue of the Japanese Bishops' Conference organized a meeting with him c…

On Saturday, June 15, 2024, our confrere Fr. Stefano Raschietti was invited to speak at the Pre-Congress of the Americas in Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is preparing to host…

After a long preparation, the meeting of the Xaverian Friends of the Chinese Delegation is taking place in these days. We are in Jakarta, where we have already made acquaintance with the Xaverian Fri…

A book written by our confrere Tiziano Tosolini entitled "Features of Buddhist Ethics," the first book in Italian to deal with this topic, has been published by the Chisokudo publishing hou…

From February 18th to 25th, 2024, a week of mission awareness was held in Locorotondo, Bari Province, Puglia, Italy, under the gudiance of the Missionary Institutes in the Puglia Region (SUAM)…

On Sunday, June 16, 2024, around 10:40 a.m. (local time), our confrere Fr. Lino Perazzolo passed away in our seminary in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico. He was 82 years old, having bee…

On Friday, June 21st, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., in the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico, our confreres Dieudonné Ombeni Bagalane and Rafael Aguilar Flores w…

On Sunday, June 9th, 2024, in St. Guido Maria Conforti Shrine, the Conference of Major Superiors (COSUMA) started officially with a Eucharistic celebration presided over by the Vicar General Fr. Maur…

The celebration of the COSUMA (Conference of Major Superiors) in Parma was the occasion for a meeting on June 7, 2024, between the General Directions of our two Institutes. We had an extensive exchan…

On Friday, June 7th, 2024, the Conforti Shrine hosted a conference on the theme “Japan: Tradition and Innovation.”  Speakers at the event were the General Councillor Fr. Felipe de Jesús Ló…

We have invited Fr. Gabriele Ferrari to tell us about his daily life “as a retiree”, which is how he describes himself. “The final sickness of our confrere Fr. Luigi Zucchinelli (2019-2020)…

The Xaverian Charismatic Family in Salerno experienced a particularly intense week. On Saturday, June 8, 2024, some 30 gazebos from various organizations took over the parking lot of the Xaverian hou…

The eighth digital update of INDIRIZZARIO 2022 (ADDRESS BOOK 2022) incorporating the amendments and new additions we received in the last 3 months (March 23rd–June 13th, 2024) has…

The first monthly (digital) update of Stato del Personale 2024 (Personnel Directory 2024) has been uploaded.  The precision of the update relies mainly on the timely communicatio…

On Friday, May 31, 2024, the two Xaverian communities of Rome met together to reflect on the current global geopolitical situation, often described by Pope Francis as a "piecemeal war." Prof Giuseppe…

On Thursday, 13 June 2024, former confrere Fr John Lochran passed away at the Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, Scotland. He was 76 years old. First Profession in Parma (24.09.1970), Perpetual Vows in Gla…

In his decree of 02 June 2024, Monsignor Dominique Blanchet, Bishop of the Diocese of Créteil, appointed the following confreres: Pierre Thierry Emalieu Pene, assistant parish priest  of Saint S…

The annual 3-evening formation conference of the diocese of Parma, entitled “Hope does not disappoint” (3-5 June), was attended by almost 300 pastoral workers, where Rev. Maurizio Patriciello, a well…

It was 60 years ago! I am filled with joy for having been called and having joined this Xaverian family. I feel also much pain at the sight of the wounds left by scandals within the Church, for the a…

Sixty years of life and missionary life. This is easily said, but many things happened throughout these sixty years! How many the graces I received! How many the worlds I have travelled! How many the…

  Upon completing their initial training, on Saturday, June 1st, 2024, confreres Didier AKSANTI MULONDANYI (DRC), Lucien BISIMWA NAKALONGE (DRC), Justin BULONZA MPURUTA (DRC), Donatien MUNGUAKO…

Berica Publishing House has issued the biography of the martyrs of Baraka and Fizi penned by writer Lisa Zuccarini. Title of the book is Benedetti ragazzi! Vita e pensieri dei beati Faccin, Carrara…

Our confrere Fr. Antonio Trettel (missionary in the Democratic Republic of Congo), after reading the February 2024 central page of the MISSIONARI SAVERIANI, whose title is "Witnessing the Faith in Ba…

The May 2024 issue of Agenda demonstrates the vibrancy of the Xaverian Laity and the entire Charismatic Family. From Desio, Serena Arosio and the Serraino family describe the community experience (i…

On Saturday, June 1, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in our Saint Bernard Parish in Kinshasa, DRC, our confreres: Dieudonné Nininahazwe, Donatien Munguakonkwa Balyahamwabo, Didier Aksanti Mulondanyi, Justin Bul…

From June 9th to 23rd, 2024, COSUMA will be held in the Mother House, Parma. Main theme of the meeting is Leadership in Religious Life. The choice of the Mother House in Parma as venue for this COSUM…

On Saturday, May 25, 2024, in the shrine of St. Guido Conforti, we remembered Fr. Silvio Turazzi on the second anniversary of his death. About 150 people including confreres, friends and family membe…

We would like to share about the great event we had on Saturday, May 18, 2024: the PENTECOST VIGIL AND INTERCULTURAL FELLOWSHIP under the Title, “Mission Embracing unity in diversity”, at Mary Mather…

On Sunday, May 19th, feast of Pentecost, there was much excitement in our house in San Pietro in Vincoli. The Town Council organized an event titled: “Let us meet at the friars’ park.” On the third S…

On Tuesday, May 21st, 2024, the Pontifical Urban University held an international conference on 100 years since the Concilium Sinense (Shanghai, China, May 1924), the first and only synod of the Cath…

Gambellara, Vicenza (Italy) – A ceremony to dedicate the Multipurpose Hall of the “A. Sandri” Middle School in Gambellara to the memory of Fr. Ottorino Maule was held on Monday, 27th, 2024. Along wit…