This meeting that brought together representatives of the SVD characteristic dimensions at the Americas finished this week. The event took place in Quito, Ecuador, from February 18 to 23 and gathered 70 Divine Word Missionaries. Read More

Fr. Marek Vanus SVD, the General Coordinator of Biblical Apostolate, shares his thoughts and impressions on the Biblical Apostolate in the PANAM Zone. Read More

The image of an iceberg is often used to illustrate how much of cultures, contexts, and life situations are below the surface—that is, about 90%. Sincere attempts to acknowledge, understand, appreciate and bridge the differences among nationalities, ethnicities, “races”, generations, genders, personalities, and economic/social classes requires looking under the “water level”. Read More

At the age of 24, and without being able to speak a word of English, Fr. Jesus Mata Martinez, SVD, arrived at Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa not knowing what he was getting into. In fact, he thought DWC was a monastery, where he would need to take a vow of silence—not the best fit for a person with an outgoing personality. Read More

Bishop Terry Steib, SVD, was retired in 2016 and reflects below about the 50th anniversary of his ordination, which he celebrated last month. Read More

The Annual Meeting of the PANAM Zone Executive Committee is taking place in Panama City, Panama, from November 9 to 15, 2016. Read More

Every October, we celebrate the brotherhood vocation; and October 15 is Brother Vocation Promotion Day for us. Read More

After twelve years of missionary work in Paraguay, Fr. Antony Tran, originally from Vietnam, says farewell to the Paraguayan people whom he loves so much. He was a rural parish priest, educator and even a formator of postulants. Now assigned to another mission in Europe, he says goodbye to his adopted people with these words of affection. Read More

For several years, Jorge Falisek SVD has been Mission Animation Secretary in Argentina (ARS). At the end of his second term, he organized a summer mission with some young people from the city of Esperanza, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Nor can you imagine what was their missionary destiny. Read More

Roberto Gallardo, SVD is the new Coordinator of Communication in the PANAM zone. Here, Roberto outlines the current situation of this dimension in the Americas. Read More

Ultimately, intercultural living and mission – like intergender collaboration – requires a conversion of the heart, in which we truly embrace our common dignity and competence as brothers and sisters. Read More

The general assembly of the Union of Superior Generals (USG) of male Religious Institutes, meeting in May 2016, was dedicated to reflection on the renewal of the consecrated life. Read More

Pope Francis has announced that the 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place in October 2018 with the theme “Youth, faith and vocational discernment”. Read More

The Divine Word Missionaries of our communities of Leganés, Alcorcón and Madrid (Spain) met to discuss ways and means of establishing, maintaining and living a missionary parish. Read More

From October 10th to the 16th Father General visited the Caribbean District of the USC Province. The following are some of Father General’s recollections and impressions of his visit. Read More

Our Superior General visited the Amazon Region from August 31 to September 10, 2016. With a program well lined up and scheduled by the Regional Leadership Team, Father General was able to maximize his visits to far-flung areas, meeting with our confreres in their places of work and connecting with active lay leaders and parishioners. Read More

The recent USC newsletter gave an overview of Father Superior General’s visit.  Fr. Heinz Kulüke spent ten busy days in the Chicago Province from November 28 – December 7. Read More

Our Brazilian confrere Fr. Cristovão Goncalves da Silva, shares a reflection on the historic attempts to find ways for peace in this long troubled nation marked by the presence of insurgents and guerrilla warfare. The following are his thoughts. Read More

The two boarding schools that comprise the internship administered by the SVD in San Ignacio de Velasco had their first graduates: two boys from Estancia San Jose and two girls from Casa Guadalupe. Read More

The Catholic Theological Union at Chicago (CTU) and DePaul University jointly sponsored a conference on “The Church and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas” on November 4-5, 2016. Read More

Father Mario Barranco, SVD considers his ministry with the indigenous Mayan tribe in Chiapas a blessing and a privilege. Read More

Our SVD aspirants in Guadalajara and the novices in Oaxaca have put into practice the SVD priority of reaching out to migrants and refugees. Read More

On Friday, January 6, 2017, seven new novices entered in the PANAM Common Novitiate of San Rafael, Lambare, Paraguay. Read More

Some participants of the recent meeting of Formators share more details at about the subject and the experience of the fraternal encounter. Read More

One of the objectives of this “Año Verbita” of Vocation Promotion is to revive in each of our SVD confreres a common responsibility to encourage vocations to the Religious -missionary life. Read More

From November 28 to December 1, 2015, members of the lay missionary group “Alma Verbita” visited the SVD-administered parish of St. Andrew, in the town of Pica belonging to the Diocese of Iquique. Read More

Lay collaborators of our congregation were invited to the Workshop on SVD Dimensions for sharing with us their missionary experience. They were: Luis from Brazil; Raul from Argentina; Eli from Mexico; Alcira from Ecuador and Augusto from USA. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for your testimony! Read More