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Mar 4, 2024 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
MAKENI CITY LENTEN PILGRIMAGE 2024
On the 2nd of March 2024, the Diocese of Makeni, in collaboration with the Parishes within Makeni City, celebrated the Lenten Pilgrimage. Th...
Feb 3, 2024 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
DAY OF THE CONSECRATED LIFE IN THE DIOCESE OF MAKENI
The Religious Men and Women of the Diocese of Makeni gathered together to celebrate the Feast Day of the Consecrated Life. The event was held at th...
Oct 7, 2023 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
SIERR LEONE: MID-YEAR CIRCUMSCRIPTION ASSEMBLY AND ON-GOING FORMATIN MEETING
We, the Confreres in the Circumscription gathered together in two days for the Quarterly Assembly and On-Going Formation Meeting in Religious...
May 29, 2023 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
XAVERIANS ANNUAL RETREAT
Annual Retreat 2023 We, the Confreres of the Region of Sierra Leone, gathered for the Annual Retreat from the 21st – 26th of May in our Regional H...
May 15, 2023 | Jerome Pistoni
CONSECRATION OF THE MOST REV. BOB JOHN H. KOROMA D.D.
On the 13th day of May 2023, the Solemn Feast Day Celebration of the Cathedral of Makeni in honor of the Our Lady of Fatima, the Most Rev. Bob John...
Feb 13, 2023 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
SIERRA LEONE: NATIONAL CELEBRATION FOR CONSECRATED LIFE
This year`s National Celebration for the World Day of Consecrated Life was held in the St. Paul`s Cathedral - Diocese of Kenema. There were about 6...
Dec 10, 2022 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
END OF THE YEAR, SIERRA LEONE XAVERIANS' REGIONAL ASSEMBLY
We the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone held our Regional Assembly on the 5th and 6th of December, at the conclusion of the year 2022. W...
Dec 3, 2022 | Louis BIRA SX
For a synodal Church: voices from Africa
On 27 October 2022, the synod on synodality, "walking together", took a new step. It is the publication of the Document: "Enlarge the space of your...
Nov 15, 2022 | Louis Birabaluge sx
The forgotten immigration of West Africa
The images of immigrants going to Europe are familiar to us. We know them because of the victims of the desert and the Libyan prisons or the Medite...
Oct 29, 2022 | Louis Birabaluge sx
In memory of archbishop Mzee Munzihirwa
October 29, 1996 - October 29, 2022, 26 years have passed since the murder of the Archbishop of Bukavu Mzee Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo. It h...
Apr 6, 2022 | Louis BIRA sx
Celibacy of the priests: What the bishops of DRCongo have said
At its 59th ordinary session, the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) signed a Document entitled: "At the school of Jesus Christ (cf. Ep...
Mar 25, 2022 | Louis Birabaluge sx
The Catholic Church Pope Francis will meet in DRCongo
The Holy See announced on March 3, 2022 that Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa and Goma from July 2 to 5). Then he...
Oct 30, 2021 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
ORDINATION OF PATRICK A. FORNAH
Congratulations!!! Rev. Fr. Patrick A. Fornah, SX On October 23rd 2021, the eve of the World Mission Sunday and the 10th year anniversary of the c...
Aug 14, 2021 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
FORMATION PERMANENTE
The On-Going Formation for the Young Xaverians working in the Circumscriptions of Africa was held on the 1st to 15th of August 2021 in the Theophil...
May 18, 2021 | Fr. Joeven Matugas sx
REGION'S ANNUAL RETREAT
Fromn May 10 to May 15, we made our Annual Retreat. This year our Preacher was Rev. Fr. Titus Imogeme, a Diocesan Priest from Nigeria ...
Apr 27, 2021 | Fr. Louis BIRA sx
Sierra Leone: a new perspective 60 years later
This April 27, 2021, Sierra Leone celebrates 60 years of its political independence. A country at peace and where it is wonderful to live, Sierra L...
Apr 13, 2021 | Fr. Louis BIRA sx
The drama of Suzanne's bay in Freetown
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 s...
Mar 18, 2021 | Fr. Louis BIRA sx
Oscar BIMWENYI -KWESHI (4/12/1939-6/3/2021): A Father of the Church in Africa
Born on 04 December 1939 in Bena-Monyo in DRC, the famous theologian Oscar Bimwenyi-Kweshi died on 06 March 2021 in Belgium. Beside the giants like...
Jan 19, 2021 | Fr. Louis BIRA sx
For a new ecumenical breath
The 15th number of the African Study Center of the Xaverian Missionaries was published in December 2020[1]. It talks about ecumenism but in a new f...
Nov 3, 2020 | Louis BIRA sx
Covid-19’s questions to Christians: An African perspective
The questions that the Covid-19 virus poses to Christians are to be understood from the origin of this deadly virus, its consequences on humanity a...
Aug 28, 2020 | Louis BIRA sx
Serving a wounded world by the COVID-19 pandemic: an Interfaith Perspective
In a world wounded by the Covid-19 pandemic and other wounds due to discrimination of all kinds from which many men and women of our time suffer, b...
Aug 26, 2020 | Louis BIRA sx
Lessons, challenges and Ethics in time of the Covid-19 pandemic
On July 22, 2020, the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) released a document on the lessons the human family can learn from the Covid-19 pande...
Jul 27, 2020 | Louis BIRA sx
The message of Bishop Natale Paganelli for a peaceful Sierra Leone
The Apostolic Administrator of Makeni Diocese in Sierra Leone, Bishop Natale Paganelli has issued a statement appealing for calm in the wake of the...
Jun 26, 2020 | FR. LOUIS BIRA
Remembering Father Berton’s legacy
June 25th, 2013- June 25th, 2020, 7 years since Fr. Giuseppe Berton died. He was remembered yesterday in a memorial mass organized by the members o...
Jun 26, 2020 | FR. LOUIS BIRA
All disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ
The number 14 of the Cahiers of the African Study Centre has been edited. Here is its edito. November 30th, 1919 - November 30th, 2019, a hundred...
Jan 18, 2020 | Louis BIRA sx
THE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY: '' THEY SHOWED US UNSUAL KINDNESS ( Acts 28: 2)''
DAY 1 Reconciliation: Throwing the cargo overboard Acts 27:18-19,21 “We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they beg...
Dec 14, 2018 | Fr. Birabaluge Louis
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER AS MODEL OF MISSIONARIES TODAY
Homily by Fr. Fabien Kalehezo sx, General Councillor of the Xaverian Missionaries- during the feast day of St. Francis Xavier. To Talk ab...
Dec 5, 2018 | Fr. Matugas Vivino
XVI REGIONAL CHAPTER IN SIERRA LEONE
From the Xaverian Region of Sierra Leone Yesterday we, the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone, commenced the 16th General Chapter with th...
Sep 13, 2018 | Fr. Alex Roman
A NEW XAVERIAN FATHER IN SIERRA LEONE
Hi, my name is Alexander and I come from Colombia but I’m originally from Peru. I’m a Xaverian missionary priest and I am 32 year...
Aug 25, 2018 | Fr. Jerome Pistoni
ST. CONFORTI JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL-MAKENI !!! Second Part
SECOND STEP: ADMISSION OF STUDENTS. This first important step, the building of the school, has been followed by the second one no less impor...
Aug 25, 2018 | Fr. Jerome Pistoni
ST. CONFORTI JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL-MAKENI !!! First Part
FIRST STEP: THE BUILDING. Having a secondary school in the Kolo Kolo compound at Makeni, in the parish of St. Conforti, Diocese of Makeni, seemed...
Jul 27, 2018 | Fr. Jerome Pistoni
"VIVA MAKENI VIVA SAINT CONFORTI" SUMMER CAMP
The Catholic University of Makeni, Unimak, in collaboration with CEU(Centro de Estudios Universitarios) S. Pablo, a university in Spain, have organ...
Mar 27, 2018 | Fr. F.X. Sudarmanto, SX
PASTORAL VISIT OF BISHOP NATALE PAGANELLI, S.X. TO MONGO BENDUGU PARISH
Bishop Natale Paganelli, sx made a pastoral visit to Mongo Parish from 15th – 18th March 2018. Rather unusually, he spent more time remaining the m...
Mar 19, 2018 | Fr. Louis Birabaluge, sx
A Lenten pilgrimage for peace
The pilgrimage of the Archdiocese of Freetown had a special purpose this year. It was focused on the prayer for peace and the commitment to b...
Feb 15, 2018 | Fr. Francois Noah
The vocation promotion in Kailahun of the Diocese of Kenema
From the 6th of February to 8th 2018 we, Father Patrick Santianez (the Vocation Director of the Xaverian Missionaries), Sr. Beatrice Adamsay Sesay ...
Jan 24, 2018 | Fr. Joeven Matugas, SX
Confirmation in Holy Martyrs of Uganda Parish, Kabala
Last January 20, 2018, Bishop Natale Paganelli, s.x., the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Makeni, came to Holy Martyrs of Uganda Parish-K...
Jan 24, 2018 | Fr. Joeven Matugas, SX
The Falaba Christian Community
It is more than a decade that the Christian Community of Falaba was founded. It was the Fathers of Kabala who started and followed that small commu...
Jan 24, 2018 | Fr. Martin ALI KEKE NDEMSOU sx
FIRST PARISH YOUTH CAMP AT STS. PETER AND PAUL PARISH – FADUGU
«You are my friends if you do what I command you » (Jn 15: 14). Saints Peter and Paul Parish organized a youth camp from 19th to 21st J...
Dec 12, 2017 | Fr. Adolphe Guy Khasa, sx
NEWS FROM MONGO BENDUGU PARISH
Maranatha! Last December 9, 2017, the prayer leaders from different outstations gathered at Mongo Bendugu to deepen the meaning of Advent and Chris...
Jun 1, 2017 | Fr. Luigi Brioni, sx
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN SIERRA LEONE
Have you ever wondered how Religious Tolerance in communities can bring about unity and development. The Parish Priest of St. Peter and Paul's par...
Jan 3, 2017 | Fr. Patrick Santianez, sx
SHOWING CONCERN TO PRISONERS
The Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Makeni, Bishop Natale Paganelli sx, visited the inmates at the Makeni Correctional Centre on January ...
Oct 30, 2016 | Gabriel Arroyo
Rev. Solomon B. Kargbo, s.x. (Ordination I)
The ordination of the First Sierra Leonean Xaverian Missionary Priest ["10" name="1 ORDINATION OF FR. SOLOMON"]
Oct 30, 2016 | Gabriel Arroyo
Rev. Solomon B. Kargbo, s.x. (Ordination II)
The ordination of the First Sierra Leonean Xaverian Missionary Priest ["11" name="2 ORDINATION OF FR. SOLOMON"]
Oct 30, 2016 | Gabriel Arroyo
Rev. Solomon B. Kargbo, s.x. (Ordination III)
The ordination of the First Sierra Leonean Xaverian Missionary Priest ["12" name="3 ORDINATION OF FR. SOLOMON"]
Oct 30, 2016 | Gabriel Arroyo
Rev. Solomon B. Kargbo, s.x. (Ordination IV)
The ordination of the First Sierra Leonean Xaverian Missionary Priest ["13" name="4 ORDINATION OF FR. SOLOMON"]
Oct 30, 2016 | Gabriel Arroyo
Rev. Solomon B. Kargbo, s.x. (Ordination V)
The ordination of the First Sierra Leonean Xaverian Missionary Priest ["14" name="5 ORDINATION OF FR. SOLOMON"]
Oct 16, 2016 | Pope Francis
MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2016
Missionary Church, Witness of Mercy Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, which the Church is celebrating, casts a disti...
Aug 16, 2016 | Fr. Joeven Matugas, sx
The Falaba Paramount Chief
Falaba is the name of a town situated in the upper and northern parts of Sierra Leone. Fabala belongs to the parish of Kabala and is one of the par...
Aug 4, 2016 | Fr. Gabriel Basuzwa, s.x.
Seeking Peace during Hard times in Bujumbura
During all difficult times in Burundi the Xaverian Missionaries have remained in solidarity with local people facing the same difficulties and endu...
Jun 3, 2016 | Mark Bangura
YOUNG PEOPLE'S RETREAT IN THE XAVERIAN HOUSE AT KISSY FREETOWN
On the 28th of May 2016, the two Christian communities: St. Francis Xavier, Sayinoh and St. Charles Lwanga, Allen town, assisted by Fr. Munari, Fr....