College Students of Different Faiths Come Together to Make a Difference

Students of all faiths and traditions are taking action together to change the world. Students from coast to coast have come together across faiths and traditions to make the world Better Together. Over 70 campuses have registered so far, working on issues ranging from homelessness to food deserts. Get...

Two Xaverian Missionaries Pass Away

Fr. Aldo Rotini Fr. Achille Figini On June 9, 2011 Fr. Achille Figini passed away after many years of service in Mexico. He was ordained to the missionary priesthood in 1955 and from 1966 to 1972 he worked in Spain. From 1973 he spent the rest of his life...

DR CONGO: The first hospital in Kamanyola inaugurated

Downtown Kamanyola The Ruzzi River, near Kamanyola, defines the border between theCongo and Rwanda. ”The Diocese of Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, inaugurated on Monday, in joy, in cheerfulness and thanksgiving to the Lord, its first hospital” Etienne Esube told Fides. “The new structure the first of...

A Day in the Life of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music

The Fez Festival of Sacred Music 2011 in Morocco is the best opportunity for music lovers to attend this unique event and also explore the mystical city of Fez. The Fez Festival of Sacred Music is held in the month if June every year and it is also the best time...

Fambol Tok: The Power of Forgivenss

Fambul Tok (Krio for “Family Talk”) emerged in Sierra Leone as a face-to-face community-owned program bringing together perpetrators and victims of the violence in Sierra Leone’s eleven-year civil war through ceremonies rooted in the local traditions of war-torn villages. It provides Sierra Leonean citizens with an opportunity to come...

Father Vasco Milani Passes Away

Fr. Vasco is on the right with Archbishop Dolan and Fr. Zimmer at his lastdeparture from Milwaukee before he left for Brazil. On May 28 2011, Fr. Vasco Milani passed away from complications of a severe form of diabetes. He was 69 years old. He was a lhard working...

The First Grader

Here is a wonderful film from National Geographic that stretches hope across cultures and time. In a small, remote, mountaintop primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One applicant causes astonishment when he...

Xaverian Missionaries of the United Kingdom and USA Look to Collaboration

From left to right, Frs. Pupolo (USA), Tom Welsh (UK), Carl Chudy (USA)Joe Matteucig (USA) and John Convery (UK).  Frs. John Convery and Tom Welsh of the United Kingdom  Province came to the USA Province to talk together about some practical ways our two provinces could collaborate in some...

Faith Shared: Churches asked to share pulpits with Muslims

Religious and human rights activists are asking U.S. churches to invite Jewish and Muslim clergy to their sanctuaries to read from sacred texts next month in an initiative designed to counter anti-Muslim bigotry. The June 26 initiative, called “Faith Shared: Uniting in Prayer and Understanding,” is co-sponsored by the...
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