On the Solemnity of Pentecost, in South Brazil, we opened the year of Xaverian celebrations to commemorate 70 years of Xaverian presence in the country. The celebrations will last till June…

From June 5th to 8th, the Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue was held in the Vatican. Fr. Paulin Batairwa Kubuya s.x. took part in his capacity as Undersecretary of th…

  From June 13th to 18th, 2022, the XIII Cultural Week of the Xaverian Missionaries will take place in the Xaverian house of Tavernerio, Como (Italy). Theme of the week is The Transfo…

Among the many initiatives of the festival there is a course titled In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful and aimed at Christians and Muslims of TA, a section of the detention…

Issue n. 9 of Cadernos, the proceedings of the Latin-American Centre for Missionary Studies, is out now. In the Editorial of this issue, one reads: “Synodality refers to a mission carried out to…

DOMUNI is a university run by the Dominican Fathers which offers online courses of theology, philosophy and social sciences. Founded and managed by the Dominican Order, it is a un…

On Sunday, June 5th, 2022, at 12:00 a.m. (Brazil time), our 86-year-old confrere Fr. Aristide Poletto s.x. passed away in the Evangelical Hospital of Londrina, Brazil, where he had been hospitalised…

This year, from April, a “young” confrere, Fr. Claudio Codenotti s.x., former Regional Superior, – at last – joined Shinmeizan as new director of the Centre for Prayer and Inter-religious Dialogue. H…

“For some time, I have been postponing answering the beautiful proposal made by a confrere to all Xaverians. His proposal was posted on SX XaverianNews and on the GD’s Website. It was about…

From May 25th to 28th, 2022, some promoters of mission awareness from Italy and Spain met in San Pietro in Vincoli. Thirteen confreres took part: two from Spain, one from the Central Delegation…

After one year since our arrival in Fnideq (May 31st, 2021), we realise that the action of the Spirit in our missionary commitment in this Moroccan land is just like that at the origins of mission: i…

On May 31st, our dear friend Umberto Bresciani was awarded the honor of Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the President of the Republic. With the right to wear the insignia of the Order. Co…

From the afternoon of May 28th to 29th, 2022, the mission awareness promoters of Italy gathered in San Pietro in Vincoli for the end-of-the-year assembly to verify the plan devised during the as…

A short article written by our confrere Fr. Fabrizio Tosolini sx has recently been published in “Rivista Biblica” (Year LXIX - Nn. 3-4 July-September 2021, October-December 2021)…

“What the Holy Virgin does in the Visitation is not paying visit to her cousin in order to console and edify each other through the narration of the wonders God operated in them; nor it is a visit br…

On 31 May 2022, Fr Rocco Viviano s.x. visited the Synagogue and Centre of the Jewish Community of Japan in Tokyo at the invitation of the recently appointed Rabbi Andrew Scheer, w…

On 30 May 2022, Fr Rocco Viviano s.x. was invited to visit the recently renovated Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (LDS, generally known as Mormons) in Tokyo, j…

The April-May issue of Agenda, bulletin of the Xaverian laity in Italy, is out now. Also this issue begins with a passage from an homily by St Guido M. Conforti on God who has loved us first. Th…

On May 17th, 2022, the Superior General, in dialogue with the confreres of the USA Region and with the consent of his Council, decreed the change of juridical status of that Circumscription from Regi…

The Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez s.x., participated in the 97th Assembly of the Superior Generals (USG) which was held in Rome (Sacrofano) at Fraterna Domus. Theme of the…

Fr. Eugenio Pulcini’s is paying a visit to the confreres in Fnideq, Morocco.

So much previously accumulated mistrust towards “official information” has also caused an “infodemic”, within which the world of information is increasingly struggling to be credible and transparent…

Since its beginning, the Xaverian Community of Klong Toey (Bangkok) has been characterized by ‘mixture’ (Constitution 36.3). In this community, lay Christians (local and foreign ones), religious, and…

The first church in Shanghai Sheshan was built when the Jesuit community and the faithful in Shanghai established a chapel for repaying their vow to Our Lady, who protected the Church in the south fr…

It was in March 1980. At that time, I was in Venezuela, in my brothers and nephews’ home, just arrived from Brazil after five years of mission in the Amazon. On the 24th, the news all Venezuelan news…

Holy Father, we praise you for the faithfulness of your love in supporting the missionary presence of the Xaverian family - 70 years ago - in this land of Santa Cruz. Son of God, our Redeemer, we bl…

The community of the Missionary Sisters of Mary in Rome celebrated the feast of May 24th with gratitude, and with gladness for the presence of some Xaverian brothers. After the Eucharistic celeb…

From Sierra Leone: on Monday, May 16, 2022, all confreres are gathering together at Religious House, Makeni, for our annual spiritual exercises. The exercises were led and animated by Fr Barthelemy K…

On Sunday, May 22nd, a two-day missionary event held in Parma (community of the students and Mother House) came to an end. Eight young people coming from Milan, Vicenza, Ancona and Salerno, were in a…

On Thursday, May 26th, 2022, around 10:30 a.m., Fr. Roberto Silvio Turazzi s.x., passed away at the age of 83 in his residence, the house of Fraternità Missionaria, in Vicomero (Torrile, Parma – It…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022, based on the ‘consultative ballot’, the Superior General, with the consent of his Council, has appointed the new Delegation Council of the Circumscription of Mozambique: S…

The updated digital edition (May 21st, 2022) of Personnel Directory 2022 (Stato del Personale 2022) can be downloaded from the GD’s website. As always, thanks to the circumscription superiors and tho…

On the Solemnity of Pentecost (June 5th, 2022), the Xaverian circumscription of South Brazil will open a year of Xaverian celebrations to commemorate the Xaverian missionaries’ 70-year presence in Br…

We recommend on the DG website, the article by Carlo Broccardo: At the Origins of Synodality (taken from Missione Oggi 05/2021). Through this simple and straightforward reflection…

From May 2nd to 6th, 2022, we gather for the yearly Spiritual Exercises in the house of the Caritas Sisters in Beppu-Kyusu. The retreat was led by Msgr. Paulo Sakai Toshihiro, auxiliary bishop of Osa…

The Church living in Morocco rejoiced for the canonization of Charles de Foucauld, on Sunday, May 15th, 2022. Since the summer of 2020, just after the announcement of the canonization, in the Archdio…

It is with much joy and gratitude that we took part in the celebration for the Canonization of 10 new saints in St Peter Square, Rome, on Sunday, May 15th, 2022. The figure of Charles de Foucauld pla…

The Xaverian community of Gounou-Gaya experienced an intense moment of Christian life during the first pastoral visit by our new Bishop, Msgr. Dominique Tinoudji, from Friday, May 6th, to Sunday, May…

Our confrere Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi s.x. shared his experience at Silvio Pellico Theatre in Sàrsina (Forlì-Cesena). The middle school students of Sàrsina, Ranchio and Mercato Saraceno gathered to lis…

On Sunday, May 15th, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. (local time), our confrere Fr. Celio Torresan s.x., 84, passed away at Ophir Loyola Hospital in Belém, Brazil. He was born on October 15th, 1937, in Tiezzo di…

On Tuesday, May 10th, 2022, the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García R. s.x., and the Councillor, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka s.x., returned to Rome. They had been visiting the confreres of the…

The sessions of the General Council will begin on Monday, May 16th, 2022. Among the topics on the agenda are: the admissions to Perpetual Profession, confirmations to the Order of Diaconate and Pries…

The Vicar General, Fr. Mario Carmelo Mula s.x., strongly encourages all confreres, and particularly the Superiors of Circumscriptions, to ensure clear and timely communication among Circumscriptions…

On May 7th-8th, 2022, the first post-Covid coordination meeting of Southern Pax Christi was held in the Xaverian house of Salerno (Italy). About seventy delegates coming from various centres of Pax C…

The Xaverian Missionaries began their presence in Mexico by establishing the College “Instituto Cultural de Occidente” (Cultural Institute of the West, or I.C.O.) in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, that is, in th…

On 10 May, there were 50,000 new cases and 12 deaths, on 11 May 57,000 cases and 8 deaths, with a percentage of asymptomatic cases exceeding 99.70%. By 11 May 2022, in Taiwan, a total of 951 people h…

On Saturday, May 7th, the International Xaverian Theologate of Parma (i.e., the students and two formators, led by Ermanno Ferro) spent some intense hours visiting the native places of Msgr. Conforti…

Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli s.x. shares his new reflection on “Identity: Challenge and Commitment. A Mother in the Xaverian Identity”. This, as the author points out, is the title given in the Final Documen…

There are still four months to go before Mission Festival. Among the activities of the event is An Aperitif with the Missionaries. The Aperitif will be held between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. in the fou…

On Sunday, May 8th, 2022, the 36th Patronal Feast of Jesus Holy Shepherd Parish, where we have been working since 1986, was held in Oyom-Abang (Yaoundé). It has been the occasion for celebrating also…