The General Direction receives and shares with readers a Easter wishes card sent by the confreres of the Mother House. The card is made up of the 26 faces of the community members living in the fourt…

In our community chapel there is a cross with the image of God the Father that holds the crucified Jesus. The cross is planted on the world and the blood of the Crucified One bathes the entire humani…

“…our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, will be the one who prays for us, prays in us, is prayed to by us. He prays for us as our priest, prays in us as our head, is prayed by us as our God.” Every year…

On Friday 22nd, March 2024, the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, DRC, celebrated the Day of the Missionary Martyrs with the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin AMBONGO BESUNGU, O.F.M. Cap. Congregatio…

In the catechesis of Wednesday, February 7th, 2024, Pope Francis continued talking about the vices, especially about sadness, which he defined a “cunning demon to be fought with holiness.” There are…

Together with the new issue of the digital bulletin "Agenda" (March 2024), the Xaverian Laity in Italy sends its Easter greetings to all: "Christ is Risen, with Him our faith flourishes, hope is rebo…

There were numerous people in the parish church of Brescello to thank the Lord and pray for the eternal rest of our confrere Fr. Tonino Manzotti on the 10th anniversary of his death (March 19th, 2024…

“I went to renew my driver's license at the Diabetic Commission. After looking at my papers, they told me that they could not renew it because my sight – as a result of 11 laser sessions for retinal…

The origins and perspective of this World Day draw inspiration from the historical moment of prayer, the Statio Orbis, which Pope Francis delivered in St Peter Square on that day of 2020. Since then…

From Sunday, March 24th, to Sunday, April 14th, 2024, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will pay a visit to the confreres of the Circumscription of Cameroon-Chad. From Sunday, April 14th, to Saturday…

Parma (Italy), on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024, Card. Pietro Parolin visited the Xaverian Mother House. The Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See had been in Parma since Tuesday. In the Cathedra…

Excerpt from the Final Message “...We began our work with an introduction by Fr. Mauro Loda on the ‘Xaverian grammar of economy’. A historical excursus was presented, starting from what the 16th Gen…

Confrere Fr. Antonio Trettel, born in 1939 and now belonging to the community of the Regional House in Bukavu, DRC, shares some ideas about the project of drafting a “Xaverian History.” Fr. Antonio p…

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". Moderated…

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 introduction…

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); an…

“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 his…

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…

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 the…

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 we…

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 Eduardo…

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 R…

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 f…

From Tuesday March 19th to Tuesday March 26th, 2024, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez will pay a visit to the confrere that live in Morocco.

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 Reg…

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 responsibilitie…

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 to…

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 we…

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 Office…

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…

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…

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 t…

 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 Wo…

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 so…

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 mourni…

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 histori…

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 p…

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 c…

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 who…

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 General’…

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) and…

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 Am…

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 in…

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 Ubuntu…

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 in…

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 61…

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 title…

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) passe…

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. Vice Superior Delegate…

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.