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Pietro Rossini, SX

75° Anniversario della presenza dei miss...

Sierra Leone
3 dicembre 2025 – Makeni / Freetown, Sierra Leone — La famiglia dei Missionari Saveriani ha celebrato con profonda gratitudine il 75° anniversario de…
04 Dec 2025
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Media Office - Xaverian Missionaries USA

Xaverian Missions Newsletter

United States
In this issue, Fr. Joeven Matugas shares about his experience for the last thirteen years in Sierra Leone. News from the Xaverian Mission Fest held a…
12 Aug 2025
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Professor Unisa Patrick Kamara

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS (DIAMOND JUBILEE CELE...

Editorials
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS (DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION) OF XAVERIAN MISSIONARY WORK IN SIERRA LEONE (1950–2025) Today, July 8, 2025, the Diocese of Makeni…
14 Jul 2025
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Luigi Brioni sx

La mia benedetta giornata delle ceneri!

Sierra Leone
Un racconto di p Luigi Brioni Alla sera delle Ceneri 2024, qui in Sierra Leone, non posso non essere grato al Signore per questa giornata di grazia…
15 Feb 2024
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Louis Birabaluge sx

La parrocchia dove le tradizioni locali ...

Sierra Leone
Mongo Bendugu / Sierra Leone Originario della Repubblica Democratica del Congo, parrocchia di Birava, arcidiocesi di Bukavu, il padre Donatien Ciza…
26 Oct 2023
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Del. della Sierra Leone

SIERRA LEONE - Relazione al XVIII Capito...

XVIII General Chapter
“AMARE LA NOSTRA VOCAZIONE SAVERIANA”  Ricordare il passato con gratitudine e guardare avanti con fiducia DA DOVE VENIAMO? L'ALBA DELLA STORIA…
06 Jul 2023
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Vatican News staff writer

Sierra Leone: Bishop Paganelli calls for...

Sierra Leone
The Apostolic Administrator of Makeni Diocese, Bishop Natale Paganelli, encourages Sierra Leoneans to put the common good of the country first and to…
25 Aug 2022
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Carlo di Sopra sx

Dio in tutto

2021 Jubilee Year
Oggi, in un periodo ed in una società in cui la Chiesa, il Cristianesimo e la religione in generale sembrano avviarsi verso il tramonto e v…
22 Sep 2021
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Martin Ali keke Ndemsou sx

A Xaverian experience of on-going format...

Sierra Leone
My gratitude for having attended the Continental Ongoing Formation in R.D. Congo (1st to 15th august 2021) “Gratitude is pausing to n…
06 Sep 2021
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Louis Birabaluge sx

Fr. Victor Bongiovanni: A young missiona...

Sierra Leone
June 26, 1941-June 26, 2021, 80 good years have passed since Fr. Victor Bongiovanni was born. He arrived in Sierra Leone in 1973 and has been there n…
10 Aug 2021
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Fr. Louis BIRA sx

Father Giuseppe Berton: The missionary w...

Sierra Leone
June 25, 2013-June 25, 2021: 8 eight years have passed since Father Giuseppe Berton – also known as Father Bepi – left this world. Yet; despite the p…
28 Jun 2021
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Louis Birabaluge sx

Sierra Leone : un regard nouveau 60 ans ...

Sierra Leone
Ce 27 Avril 2021, la Sierra Leone fête 60 ans de son indépendance politique. Pays en paix et où il fait beau vivre, la Sierra Leone est méconnue d’un…
30 Apr 2021
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Luigi Brioni sx

Sierra Leone 60 anni dopo... voglia di g...

Sierra Leone
Sessant'anni fa, il 27 aprile 1961, la colonia britannica della Sierra Leone diventava una nazione indipendente, uno dei pochi stati africani ad otte…
30 Apr 2021
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Christophe Ndiwe Chiza sx

Easter: my first experience as a mission...

Sierra Leone
I am Father Christophe Ndiwe Chiza, a Xaverian missionary, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo. I was ordained priest in September 20, 2…
16 Apr 2021
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Louis Bira sx

The drama of Suzanne's bay in Freetown

Sierra Leone
On March 24; 2021 at 6 p.m., a fire decimated more than 500 homes in one of the poorest locations in Freetown. It's at Suzanne's bay. There lived sev…
13 Apr 2021
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Louis Birabaluge sx

Washing the feet differently

Sierra Leone
The liturgy of the Holy Thursday provides that after the homily, the priest washes the feet of the 'men' who have been chosen; where circumstances pe…
03 Apr 2021
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Louis BIRA sx

Fr. Gerardo Caglioni: A legacy to the Ch...

Sierra Leone
March 22, 2020- March 22, 2021: One year has passed since father Gerardo Caglioni died due to the scourge of Covid-19. He was 73. In Sierra Leone, he…
22 Mar 2021
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Louis Birabaluge sx

Covid-19’s questions to Christians: An A...

Sierra Leone
Français The questions that the Covid-19 virus poses to Christians are to be understood from the origin of this deadly virus, its consequences on hu…
02 Dec 2020
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Natale Paganelli, sx

Makeni Lives Matter

Sierra Leone
Dopo i disordini di qualche giorno fa, la situazione a Makeni sembra di calma apparente. L’altro ieri, stava circolando la voce che elementi della po…
06 Aug 2020
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Louis Birabaluge sx

Why a Mass online is not a true Eucharis...

Sierra Leone
English Français English With the containment and assembly restrictions to control the spread of Coronavirus-Covid-19, there has been an increa…
11 Apr 2020
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Gerardo Caglioni sx

Seventy years of mission in Sierra Leone...

Sierra Leone
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A missionary: "Seventy years of mission in Sierra Leone are our hard work, but also our joy" Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - This yea…
16 Dec 2019
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Missionari Saveriani Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: Nuova Direzione Regionale

Sierra Leone
Nuova Direzione Regionale della Sierra Leone Regionale: Rante Taruk P. Marcelinus Vice Regionale: Birabaluge P. Louis Consiglieri: …
07 Dec 2018
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I partecipanti

Xaverian on-going formation in Sierra Le...

Sharing
“On-Going Formation is attitude and availability of every confrere to continue, to learn and deepened all that refers to our human, spiritual, intell…
25 Feb 2018
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Fransiscus X. Sudarmanto sx

On broadening missionary friendship

Sierra Leone
Recently, Mr. Jacob Y Kamara, our prayer leader of Kombili community, invited me to visit three villages (Yendeia, Kambaia and Kalia). Actually these…
31 Jan 2018
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Louis Birabaluge sx

Sierra Leone : La mission des héritiers

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone : La mission des héritiers Depuis 1950, arrivée de quatre premiers Xavériens (Augusto Azzolini, Serafino Calza, Camillo Oliva…
17 Mar 2017
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