On Saturday, December 6th, 2025, in Aversa, Province of Caserta, Campania Region, Italy, a ceremony for the transfer of Bishop Giovanni Gazza’s remains was held. The late Bishop was taken from Villet…

On  April 13, 2003, † Monsignor Faustin Ngabu (Bishop of Goma, North Kivu, DRC from 1974 to 2010) established the parish of Saint François Xavier in Ndosho (a district of the city of Goma, RDC)…

The 21st General Meeting of the Inter‑regional Section of the Xaverian Asia Study Centre (CSA) was held in Taipei from 22 to 26 November 2025. Participants included CSA members, Fr. Fabrizio Tosolin…

Our confrere Fr. Renato Filippini published "The Daily Gospel for the Seasons of Advent and Christmas”, by the Saint Paul editions publisher. It was written in collaboration with seven laypeople, in…

Our confrere, Fr. Rafael López Villaseñor shares a reflection on the legacy of the Council Decree Ad Gentes. In his conclusion, he writes “The Second Vatican Council introduced a new theological con…

The confreres of the Chinese Delegation have edited the Chinese translation of the book Vita e Pensieri di Carrara, Didonè, Faccin and Joubert, martiri in Congo (R.D.C) by Lisa Zuccarini. 《卡拉拉，…

December 3rd, 2025 – Makeni and Freetown - Sierra Leone. The Xaverian Missionary family gathered with deep gratitude to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their presence in Sierra Leone, the first Afr…

On Saturday, November 29th, 2025, twenty-five confreres from eleven nationalities residing in Rome gathered at the “Guido Maria Conforti” College for a day of retreat in preparation for the feast of…

On Saturday, December 6th, 2025, in the Mother House, Parma, NEVE SHALOM WAHAT AL-SALAM (a little village within Israel where Jew and Israeli live together) will hold some workshops on the theme of p…

On Saturday, November 29, 2025, at approximately 9:00 a.m., Sister Assunta (Tina) Montefusco, aged 90, passed away at the Mother House of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary where she was receivi…

On Wednesday, December 03rd, 2025, 11.00 am, in the Cathedral church of Our Lady of Fatima, our confrere Justin Bulonza Mpuruta will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands and the prayer o…

On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 6:00 PM, in the Chapel of the Xavier Center, Douala, Cameroon, our confreres Denis Bacikuderhe Imani, Kizito Kushinganine Milenge, and Gratien Rivuzimana will make…

On Saturday, December 6, 2025, at Christ the King Parish, Colonia Portales, Mexico City, Mexico, our confrere Pedro Viveros Viveros will receive the Order of the Diaconate through the laying on of ha…

The 2nd update on the "Stato del Personale" 2025 (digital edition) has been uploaded. We invite the Superiors of the Circumscriptions to keep the digital page for their Circumscription updated, repor…

On December 7, 2025, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Conciliar Decree Ad Gentes ("To the Nations"). The document begins with the words AD GENTES DIVINITUS missa ut sit «…

On the second anniversary of his death († Parma, November 18, 2023), about sixty friends of Fr. Raimondo Sommacal, SX, from the Sacred Heart Parish in Parma, gathered in the shrine of St. Guido Confo…

In recent days, a new profile has been uploaded to the DG website: Fr. Donatien Lwiyando Mujishamba. We take this opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude to the confreres officially entrusted…

On Sunday, November 23, 2025, the Gazzetta di Parma, in a cultural space entitled "Bridge for a Peaceful Coexistence”, published a full-page article by our confrere Fr Tiziano Tosolini entitled Ethic…

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David—affectionately known as "Ambo"—bishop of Caloocan, a metropolis within the crowded and heavily polluted urban belt of Manila in the Philippines, and president of the Epi…

On Monday, November 24, 2025,  Mrs. Rita Brunello, 87 years old, sister of our confrere Fr. Siro Brunello, passed away in Vicenza. The funeral was celebrated on Thursday, November 27, 2025, at t…

Dear confreres, Cosuma Asia 2025, which began on the 13th has now come to its conclusion. It has been for all of us a time of grace, discernment, and fraternity. In these days we have lived an inten…

On Wednesday, December 03rd, 2025, 11.00 am, in the Cathedral church of Our Lady of Fatima, our confrere Justin Bulonza Mpuruta will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands and the prayer o…

On Friday, November 21st, 2025, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez and Fr. Mauro Loda returned to Rome.

In recent days, our confrere, Brother Maurizio Zenere, has been sending the Calendario 2026 to all Xaverian Circumscriptions. Some confreres stopping in Rome on their way back to mission or…

In preparation to the liturgical memory of the Blessed Giovanni Didonè and Companions Martyrs (Friday, November 28th, 2025), we introduce some material that may be useful to the liturgical celebratio…

This year, the San Guido Conforti shrine in Parma presents a unique Advent journey using poems and prayers by the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, with commentary and reflections by Fr. Marino…

Our confrere Fr. Antonio Trettel suggests the reading of an article posted on the Italian daily Avvenire on Saturday, November 15th, 2025. Fr. Antonio writes: “I think the article gives a clear, trut…

Shinmeizan celebrates 38 years of life. Almost four decades, of which I am also part having spent in this Xaverian centre approximately nine years – first from 1993 to 1998, and now as its director s…

The confreres of the Delegation of Mozambique met over the last two weeks to share three important moments in their journey. On November 5th, at the Formation House in Inhamizwa, during the Eucharis…

“Thank you, Fr. Jean Zihalirwa Balola, for the very beautiful and factual witness about our late confrere Fr. Modesto Todeschi, which you have given us today in the SX-News. Thank you!” (A confrere)…

On Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, Pope Leo XVI wrote a letter to the Archdiocesan Major Seminary of “San Carlos y San Marcelo” on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of its founding. The Pope has bee…

The theme of the Assembly is “Connected Faith: Living Prayer in the Digital Age.” The Assembly will begin with a private meeting with Pope Leo. There will be a moment of prayer and introduction, foll…

On Sunday, November 16th, 2025, Sr. Urbanina Maule, sister of the Servant of God Fr. Ottorino Maule s.x. and aunt of Fr. Giuseppe Vignato (son of Geremia) passed away. She was born in Gambellara (Vic…

On Saturday, November 15th, 2025, in the church of Our Lady of the Victories Parish, our confrere Francis Richard Chidiebere Will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands and the prayer of o…

From Thursday, November 20th to Friday, December 5th, 2025, General Councillors Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’chiribuka and Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will pay a visit to the confreres of the Delegatio…

On November 5, 2025, the Xaverian Confreres in West Sumatra (Zona Sumbar SX) gathered to celebrate the feast day of our Founder, Saint Guido Maria Conforti. The celebration, held at the Xaverian Regi…

On Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, the Xaverian district of Londrina celebrated our holy Founder. In particular, with our MissioWeb expert, Fr. Juan Juárez García s.x. we displayed our first-class rel…

On 5th of November, the confreres working in the Xaverian Region of Burundi, and some from the community of Kilomoni (DRC) along with Lay Xaverian gathered together in the Noviciate house of Bujumbur…

The Xaverian Missionaries in US concluded their annual assembly at the missionary Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, which took place from November 2 - 6, 2025. Our superiors from Rome also joined us. The…

The Xaverian Missionaries’ International Theologate of Manila held an Interreligious dialogue on October 25, with the theme “The Meaning of Hope according to Muslims and Christians.” The event featur…

From October 16th to November 12th, 2025, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez and the General Councillor, interlocutor for Asia, Fr. Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto have paid a visit to all the Xaverians wh…

Cameroon, Tanzania and Ivory Coast: these are three nations of the African continent that held elections in the last month of October. Albeit with different percentages, in all three cases, the outgo…

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, there was a great celebration in the Mother House of the Xaverian missionaries in Parma. The occasion: the liturgical memory of the Founder, St Guido Maria Conforti, 94…

On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the Kobe Peace Research Institute hosted its annual Sunrise Prayer for World Peace, gathering religious leaders from across Japan and abroad. The event featured prayer…

From 3 to 7 November 2025, in the city of Bongor (Chad), the Xaverian Missionaries working in Chad held their Assembly. It was a time of discernment, a time to review their missionary journey togeth…

The St. Francis Xavier Philosophy community successfully held its “Open House" on November 9, 2025, with the topic “Xaverian Charismatic Family.” From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., the Xaverian community w…

The pastoral zone “Saint Guido Maria Conforti” in Toukra (N'Djamena – Chad) celebrated the feast of Saint Guido Maria Conforti, its patron saint, on Sunday, November 9, 2025. The Eucharist was presi…

On Saturday, 8 November, the Xaverian Missionaries in Japan hosted the first Menegazzo Memorial Lecture at the newly inaugurated Fr. Luigi Menegazzo Library in Izumisano. Fr. Robert Kisala, President…

During the celebration in Manila, Philippines, on 5 November, our confrere Sandi Pratama Fenat Michael Timothy professed his final vows in the hands of Fr. Patrick Santiañez Salazar at the Parish of…

The journal Recherches de Science Religieuse (RSR) published by Loyola Paris Faculties dedicates its October-December 2025 issue to the renewal of African theologies. It includes the article: ‘How do…