On Tuesday August 18th, 2026, the Xaverian Missionary in Scotland helped organise a day conference on “Claiming Christianity: Responding to the far right in Scotland”. As well as members of the Bisho…

Conselho Indigenista Missionário (C.I.MI or Indigenous Missionary Council), an agency under the Brazilian Bishop Conference, in its 2025 Report on the violence against the indigenous p…

On Tuesday, August 18th, 2026, Mrs Carmela Zurlo, the 101-year-old sister of our late confrere Fr. Marcello Zurlo (d. December 20th, 2025), passed away in Cittadella, Padua, Italy. 

On Saturday, August 15, 2026, in the morning (before 05:00 local time) a massive earthquake struck the island of Flores. The epicentre was located in the Flores Sea, 30 km from Nagekeo. Around 5.000…

Issue no. 139 of iSaveriani has been posted on the General Direction’s website. It contains the proceedings of COSUMA AFRIQUE 2025, which was held in Bafoussam, Cameroon (June 15th-22nd, 2025). The t…

The biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. Alessandro Galeani has been posted on the General Direction’s website. Fr. Alessandro passed away on March 5th, 2026, at the Regional House in Izumisa…

Taking Pope Leo XIV’s message One in Christ, United in Mission for the 100th World Mission Day as a starting point, the front page of the August-September issue of our bulletin Missionari Saveriani f…

On Thursday, August 20th, 2026, we commemorated the anniversary of the death of our beloved Mother, the Venerable Celestina Bottego. She spent a life nourished by faith and constantly open to the act…

Cameroon remains the setting for one of the most severe yet underreported humanitarian crises on the planet. It is a silent crisis that forces millions of people to live far from their homes, deprive…

Back on July 16th, 1951, the Xaverian Father Ugo Cattenati, invited by a small group of lay Catholics, sought out a spot to begin a new chapter: the Instituto Cultural de Occidente, the first Xaveria…

The FuturoPresente Festival – Science, Ethics, and Society, promoted by the Centre for Bioethics of the University of Parma, will take place in Parma on October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. The Festival will d…

In 1919, Msgr. Guido Maria Conforti planned to open a new house in north-eastern Italy to accommodate the growing number of vocations. After some searching, Villa De Tacchi (formerly known as Villa B…

Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will be in Cameroon from August 10th to September 7th, 2026, to participate in the planning of the Theologate in Yaoundé which is scheduled for the first week of Septe…

Thank you for your greetings and for your concern about our situation. In Colombia there has truly been a devastating earthquake. Thanks be to God, our three communities are doing fine. The strongest…

The biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. Camillo Didonè has been posted on the General Direction’s website. Fr. Camillo passed away at Holy House of Mercy in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, on Febr…

From August 2nd to 9th, 2026, the 14th International Youth Summer Camp organized by the diocesan Charitas took place in Cagliari, where its main camp was at the house of the Xaverian Missionaries. Pa…

Shortly before the end of the 2024-2025 academic year, the Department of Philosophy at Fu Jen Catholic University, through the ATI (Societas Thomistica in Taiwan, Formosa) group, invited our confrere…

September 12th marks the feast day of St. Guido (Saint Guido of Anderlecht—also known as Saint Guido of Brabant – a Belgian pilgrim and farmer who lived around the year 1000) and that of the Most Hol…

On Thursday, November 5th, 2026, in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, the Società Internazionale Tommaso d’Aquino (SITA) will hold a conference on the Tomi…

From scattered entities across the territory to a single national network capable of sharing content, skills, and resources. The official establishment in Bongor, Chad, of the “Réseau des Médias…

From 3 to 6 August 2026, the First Christian-Confucian Colloquium took place at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea: “New Heaven, New Earth and Datong (Dà Tóng 大同) (Great Harm…

On August 12, 2026, the Congregation of St Joseph of Zhengzhou (the Josephines) celebrated 110 years of history with joy and gratitude. Its origins date back to 1914, when Monsignor Luigi Calza (贾师…

On Monday, August 10th, 2026, Mrs Elvia Ferro, 88, sister of our confrere Fr. Ermanno Ferro, passed away. The Requiem Mass was celebrated on Thursday, August 13th, 2026, at the church of the main squ…

Our Chinese confrere, Deac. Simone, has recently completed the biographies in Chinese of the first three non-Italian Xaverians: Fr. Agostino Yang (1920-1994), Fr. Simone Liu …

From 2 to 6 August 2026, the Centre for African Studies held a meeting in Makeni, Sierra Leone. The meeting focused on evaluating the work carried out over the past 10 years and planning ac…

A biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. FRANCESCO SIGNORELLI has been uploaded on the website of the General Direction. Fr. Francesco passed away on February 7th, 2026, at the Milfor…

The situation in the Spanish enclave appears to have largely returned to normal following the arrival of around 60,000 migrants from Morocco. Many families are still without news of their loved ones…

On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (July 30th), the Mexican Episcopal Commission for Social Ministry and the Mexican Charitas issued the following message: “I have seen the oppres…

The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, in collaboration with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea, Sogang University, and the Korean Confucian Academy, organized the first Christian-Confucia…

On Saturday August 1, 2026, four Xaverians of four different nationalities, from the community at Viale Vaticano 40 visited the monastery of Sacro Speco (from the Latin ‘specus’, meaning ‘cave’) and…

On Monday August 3, 2026, in Bannia di Fiume Veneto, in the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Mrs Scolastica Nardo, sister of our confreres Fr Riccardo and the late Fr Giuseppe Nardo, pas…

On Sunday, August 2nd, 2026, at 8:30 a.m., in the church of “Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel” Parish, Goma, DRC, our confrere Didier AKSANTI MULONDANY will be ordained priests through the laying on of hand…

“In Memoriam”, the biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. GIANFRANCO SANA, who died on February 6th, 2026, at the Bolognini Hospital of Seriate, Bergamo, Italy, and was laid to rest in the prie…

“Let us thank God for we have got a new government. Let us look at the future with hope,” said Msgr. Suboto Boniface Gomes, auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka. He expressed the sentiment of…

From 20 to 27 July 2026, the General Direction took part in the Spiritual Exercises together with members of Italian-founded missionary Institutes, both male and female (PIME, Comboni Missionaries, C…

“In an increasingly divided world, where people are so incapable to listen to one another and engage in dialogue, we want to show that the only way to live in our common home is to learn to be brothe…

In our Congregation Documents and in our Xaverian Delegation in US, we affirm that Mission and Vocation Animation is part of our Ministry. Our Delegation is a member of the National Religious Vocatio…

The strong earthquake that struck southern Japan at 4:27 p.m. on July 28th affected all areas of the island of Kyushu where the Xaverians are present. However, all of our confreres are fine, and apar…

On Friday, July 24th, 2026, at 5:00 p.m., in the church of Santo Fransiskus dari Assisi Parish, Padang Baru, Diocese of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia, our confreres Yunis Martinus ZALUKHU,  Valeriu…

On Saturday, July 25th, 2026, at 9:30 a.m., in the church of Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus Parish, Mukobe, Archdiocese of Gitega, Burundi, our confreres Frédéric MUTONDE and Richard NIYUKURI will…

On Sunday, August 2nd, 2026, at 8:30 a.m., in the church of “Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel” Parish, Goma, DRC, our confrere Didier AKSANTI MULONDANY will be ordained priests through the laying on of hand…

From July 30th to August 13th, 2026, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will be in Sierra Leone to visit the confreres and take part in the biannual meeting of the Center for African Studies that will b…

“For about three years now I have been in the IV Floor community, set aside for those who are ‘almost there’, or rather for physical rest… When my dearest confrere, the Rector, asked me if I would li…

The theme chosen by Pope Leo XIV, ‘But I will never forget you’ (Isaiah 49,15), highlights God’s closeness and the community’s commitment to the elderly, especially those who are alone. Pope Leo XIV…

“…I have just finished reading the biographical sketch of Fr. Antonio Chiofi. It is written in a simple yet beautiful style; in fact, its style suits the subject well, since Fr. Chiofi was a man of f…

“In Memoriam”, the biographical sketch of our late confrere Fr. MARCELLO ZURLO, who died on December 20th, 2025, at the Mother House – IV Floor, Parma, and was buried in the family tomb, in Cittadell…

Fr. Pino Di Luccio S.J., an old family friend, came on Monday, July 20th, 2026, to say hello to the Xaverians and share a meal with the community in Viale Vaticano 40. Fr Pino will be soon leaving fo…

“In recent months, the General Direction of our Institute has promoted a community reflection among confreres on what has for some time been considered an important element of Xaverian identity, name…

From 17 to 21 July, the 16th General Assembly of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS) was held at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria, under the theme: ‘Walking tog…

I firmly believe that in the 1980s the Holy Spirit intervened – as in a full Pentecost – in Pamplona and in the drafting of the post-Council Constitutions. Similarly, the Holy Spirit was present at e…