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...
American Missionary Sister in the Sudan, Africa
Sister Cathy Arata began directing Solidarity’s Pastoral Services in March 2010 after having been selected unanimously for the position by the Solidarity’s Governing Board. Sister Cathy, a School Sister of Notre Dame (SSND), hails from New Jersey and Maryland. A former missionary in El Salvador, Sister Cathy has a...
The Church Must Not Renounce Her Missionary Role
Fr. Luigi Brioni, who has been living and working in Sierra Leone many yearss,shares God’s Word with the people in West Africa. At midday today the Holy Father received the participants in the General Assembly of the Pontifical Missionary Works, which reports to the Congregation for the Evangelisation of...
9/11: The Conversation We Never Had
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player As we approach the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, faith leaders reflect on the challenge of living with the deep ideological and religious differences that persist in our multi-denomination society. “You can’t have healing unless you have dialogue and unless you have engagement,” says Bishop...
New Website to Focus on the Canonization of the Founder of the Xaverian Missionaries
The Xaverian Missionaries of the USA Region is premiering a new website which will focus on coming to know our founder, Saint Guido Conforti and the inspiration he is as we learn how to embrace, with the compassion of Christ, a multicultural and multireligious world in the 21st Century....