The Vth updated digital version (August 31st, 2023) of Stato del Personale 2023 (Personnel Directory 2023) is available for download on the GD website. Once again, we thank the confreres that patien…

On Friday, September 1st, 2023, we celebrate the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, inaugurating the “Season of Creation”, which will last until October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assi…

On Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, Mr Angelo Piredda, brother of our confrere Fr. Gesuino Piredda, passed away in Borore, Nuoro (Sardinia – Italy). The Requiem Mass and the burial rites were celebrate…

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, at 4:00 p.m., in the Parish Church of St Paulus Labuh Baru (Diocese of Padang), confreres Morgany Yohanes and Ordin Jemanu Kampianus will be ordained priests through the…

“My name is Teresa. For three years I have been dedicating every Saturday morning to volunteering… In 2019, someone introduced my husband, our little daughter and me to the Xaverian community of Khlo…

On the initiative of Msgr. Felix Machado when he was undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Shinmeizan has been cultivating a close interreligious friendship and collab…

“I’m staying on the second floor; when, early in the morning, I open the shutters, the rosy profile of the Brenta Dolomites appears majestic like the backdrop of a royal theatre that frames the lake…

Some of the friends that offer their service as volunteers in our Italian Xaverian houses have been faithful to the summer appointment this year too. They are six married couples from Desio, Brescia…

In the month of August, the visits to the families of St Rosa of Lima community (belonging to St Francis Xavier Parish in Belém, PA) have been a time of encounters, mutual knowledge, welcoming, liste…

The young men being trained at Centro Xaveriano de Animação e Formação Missionária in Ananindeua, PA, concluded their second “missionary experience” (missões). In August, Xaverian students Ronilson a…

From August 3rd to 6th, 2023, Comunità Missionaria Intergentes held its Spiritual Exercises in the house of the Xaverian Missionaries in Salerno. Apart from members of this community, also other frie…

We suggest reading the experience shared by Fr. Héctor Gabriel Arroyo Salcido s.x. and published on August 19th, 2023, in https://afrique.xaveriens.org : “Missionnaire au ‘sixième continent’: Témoign…

On Monday, August 21st, 2023, Mr Ferruccio Pirani, brother of the late confrere Br. Tersilio Pirani (d. February 10th, 1970, in Walungu, formerly Zaire, who died on an airplane crash along with confr…

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, at 4:00 p.m., in the Parish Church of St Paulus Labuh Baru (Diocese of Padang), confreres Morgany Yohanes and Ordin Jemanu Kampianus will be ordained priests through the…

At the request of the civil society of Trento, Italy, our confrere Fr. Gabriele Ferrari has penned a fascinating booklet (Vitrend Editore, August 2023) titled “Contentissimo di essere in Cina” (Very…

We have just concluded three weeks of missionary awareness and vocation promotion divided into two groups: the first from July 14th to 19th, the second from July 23rd to 28th – two moments attended b…

Last month, Maria Santissima Desolata Parish in Salerno, Italy, organised a Summer Camp for the giovanissimi (very young, under-15) group and the altar boys which was held in the Xaverian House of Sa…

On August 20th, 1980, Celestina Bottego, the Mother, the Founder along with Fr. Giacomo Spagnolo of the female Congregation of the Missionaries of Mary, went up to the Father’s house. Thus, a wish th…

Few days ago, while checking the map of Rome, we found out that in Acilia, borough Number X of the metropolitan area of Rome, a Road has been named after Guido Maria Conforti: something which we livi…

Our confrere Fr. Francis Xavier Sadono Agung Widodo, who has been studying Italian in Rome (General House) for more than two months, was asked by Fr. Oliviero Verzelletti s.x., director of Centro Doc…

Along with the Franciscan Sisters Missionary of Mary and Fr. Ivanildo De Sousa Quaresma s.x., I accompanied a small missionary group of young people from Spain to World Youth Days in Lisbon. As a Xav…

Also this year, from August 1st to 3rd, a three-day annual meeting of study and reflection on the significance and value of human life from the religious perspective was held in Shinmeizan. The three…

The Theology community of Manila in the Philippines went on a community outing in the nearby province of Pangasinan. It was an adventure since, upon arriving at the place, we were blocked by a typhoo…

On Sunday, August 6th, 2023, accompanied by Fr. Ferdinandus Supandri s.x., two boys and two girls (Federica, Laura, Antonio and Ettore) members of the Youth Group of the Xaverian Community in Salerno…

After a violent storm of water, hail and wind that hit Desio and the surrounding areas, restoration works of the park of our Xaverian house in Desio should be completed during this first week of Augu…

Talking to the youths gathered in Lisbon, Pope Francis highlighted the importance of haste, “Mary’s haste is good and healthy; she rushes towards those who are in need and takes care of them with eag…

…According to a debatable etymology, the name Europe derives from a word meaning the direction west. What is certain is that Lisbon is the most westerly capital of continental Europe… It is my hope t…

We suggest reading the Letter which Pope Francis addressed to the priests of the Diocese of Rome (the diocese of the Pope) on August 7th, 2023, Memorial of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary…

On the dawn of Sunday, August 6th, 2023, Mr Simon Nwala Oum, 78-year-old father of our confrere Simone Pierre Oum Oum, passed away in Douala, Cameroon. Mr Simon Nwala Oum had been sick for several mo…

On Tuesday, August 8th, 2023, in the parish church of Kadutu, confreres Justin BASHAGALUKE MIHIGO and Innocent SHAMAMBA CIZA will be ordained priests through the laying on of hands and the prayer of…

Parishes, families, associations, schools and even public institutions in the city of Lisbon and the neighbouring dioceses are hosting thousands of young pilgrims arrived in Portugal for World Youth…

The 4th updated digital version (August 4th, 2023) of Stato del Personale 2023 (Personnel Directory 2023) is available for download on the GD website. Once again, we thank the confreres that patient…

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are deeply concerned for “the safety and well-being of hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Tunisi…

Last July 23, 2023, the group of Lay Xaverians, together with the Xaverian Philosophy students, went to the Fu Guang Shan Mabuhay Temple to experience a day of practice in Humanistic Buddhism. We wer…

The community of Philosophy Jakarta has been undertaking some activities during this summer holiday (from the end of June until the middle of August). The first was the annual retreat led by Fr. Anto…

The victims of human trafficking worldwide are more than 27 million. It is a scourge that, each year, feeds a criminal business estimated at over 30 billion dollars and, along with drug and arms traf…

On Friday, July 21st, 2023, Mr Mario S. Puopolo, brother of our confrere Fr. Rocco Puopolo, passed away in Whitefield, New Hampshire, USA. The Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Monday, August 7th, a…

On Tuesday, August 8th, 2023, 9.30 am, in the parish church of Kadutu, confreres Justin BASHAGALUKE MIHIGO and Innocent SHAMAMBA CIZA will be ordained priests through the laying on of hands and the p…

Friday, July 21st, 2023. The Chapter day began with a Eucharistic celebration led by the circumscription of Italy. The morning was devoted to planning the last two days of the Chapter and to the app…

…It is significant to reflect on the love of vocation where the Servants of God Carrara, Faccin, Didoné and Joubert shed their blood in 1964. Organizing the General Chapter in a land where even now…

“…in Fnideq we spent an intensive week of experiences, meetings, dialogue, prayer and family life with Fr. Rolando Ruíz Durán s.x. and Fr. François Saleh Moll s.x.. In returning home, we find ourselv…

On Thursday, July 27th, 2023, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, along with other 16 confreres-Delegates, returned to the General House. The new general councillor, Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco also…

On Wednesday, July 19th, 2023, at the Wisma Xaverian Bintaro (Prenovitiate and Novitiate Formation Community), we officially began the Postulancy year of 18 pre-novices who come from 6 different dioc…

Mr Giovanni Paolo Seniga, former Mayor of Bassano Bresciano (Brescia, Italy), upon reading the biographical sketch of the late Fr. Lorenzo Scaglia s.x. (1936-2004), took care to inform us of two even…

Anti-Covid19 measures having been lifted, the activities of the Osaka Archdiocese Interreligious Commission for Interreligious Dialogue resumed at the normal pace. The 2023-24 programme is divided in…

The first issue of the 18th Volume of Quaderni del CSA has been published. In the editorial article titled ‘Christian Discipleship in the Midst of Other Believers’, Fr Rocco Viviano s.x. writes on th…

The 20th Annual Meeting of the Inter-regional section of the Xaverian Asia Study Centre (CSA) was held in Taipei, Taiwan from 20 to 24 July. Fr Fabrizio Tosolini s.x., Fr Matteo Rebecchi s.x. and Fr…

The fifth digital update of Indirizzario 2022 (now updated every three-months) has been uploaded. It incorporates the corrections that have been communicated over the last three months. We sincerely…

On Wednesday, July 26th, 2023, around 8:00 p.m., Sister Anna Mosconi passed away in the Mother House of the Xaverian Sisters - Missionaries of Mary in Parma. Due to health concerns, Anna had moved f…

“The Chapter Fathers are glad to inform the entire Xaverian Family that Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez has been confirmed our General Superior for a second consecutive term. Upon receiving this mandat…