SVD Private Area
Our Mission through Education and Research
One of the Congregational Directions concerns our mission through education and research institutions (IDW 11: 14-15). It calls on the provinces, regions, and missions that choose this as one of their priorities ad extra to “evaluate their education policies, institutions and programs with a special concern for the Catholic character of the institution, social justice and interculturality.”
Leadership workshop in Paraguay
On May 12-15, 2014 the South Subzone of PANAM organized a workshop for provincial superiors, their respective councils and district superiors.
Other Notes
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CF 2014 : Trafficking in Persons
Verbo Filmes launches a subsidy for the Fraternity Campaign 2014. The documentary reflects on one of the greatest crimes of our time: Trafficking in Persons. Read More -
Searching the gospel of joy, justice and peace!
Pope Francis gave us a good thermometer to evaluate the temperature of the life and mission of the Church, through the Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium “(EG). We can take a look at some fundamental turning points of our Congregational Directions (CD) at the light of this exhortation. Read More -
Reflections and Thoughts: What we choose to remember shapes us
“In Ghana, I learned to choose what to remember. I learned I could choose to remember the blessings and I learned how that could shape who I became”, Fr. Stanley Uroda (USC) comments. He was a former missionary in Ghana from 1975 until 1984. This particular intercultural experience seems for him to have just happened yesterday. Read More -
Indians and Jesuits, united by music
The famous Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, wrote for the newspaper La Nacion of Argentina, an article about the American Baroque music and the work of our confrere, Fr. Piotr Nawrot, SVD. Read More -
PANAM Zone Assembly in Rio de Janeiro
The SVD Provincials from throughout the Americas gathered from March 26 – April 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2014 PANAM Zone Assembly. Read More -
Setting sail on the digital sea
The new website SVD want to open doors and provide opportunities to interact with people with whom we otherwise never would know. The site aims to be a platform for intercultural exchange of our life and mission, said Father General, Heinz Kulüke. Read More -
Reflections and Thoughts: What do you do after breakfast?
Fr. Philip Gibbs has been a missionary in Papua New Guinea since 1973. This is the learning experience that has shaped his vision and perspective of mission. Read More -
Perpetual Vows and Priestly Ordination in Chile
The SVD in Chile celebrates these days, the Perpetual Vows of Brother Carlos Ferrada and the Priestly ordination of Alejandro de la Sotta and of Sergio Candia, who successfully completed their formation. Read More -
Bible workshops in Bolivia
A workshop "Facts and figures of the New Testament" was organized in the Vicariate of Ñuflo Chavez , in the Department of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia. Read More -
April of blessings in Chile
There were prodigal blessings for the Society of the Divine Word and the Church the last weekend of April 2014 because we celebrated with joy Perpetual vows and two Priestly ordinations. Read More -
Fr. General Heinz and the laity of Brazil Centre
The General Coordinator of the Congregation, Fr Heinz Kulüke, had a meeting in Sao Paulo, with the lay missionaries of the BRC Province. Read More -
Echoes of the SVD Common Novitiate of Paraguay
Among the activities of the Novitiate, the apostolate is fundamental to enrich the missionary formation of the Novices. Six of them, accompanied by Brother Oscar Melendrez, visit every week patients of the IPS hospital of Asuncion. Read More -
Two SVD Latino in Australia
Two young SVD students, one from Argentina and another one from Mexico, are spending two years of their formation in Australia to become better missionaries as part of the Overseas Training Program (OTP). Read More -
Golden Jubilee of the USW province in California
During this year of the jubilee, there were numerous activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the SVD presence as a province, but the culmination of this process took place on this last Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at the Cathedral of San Bernardino. Read More
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Divine Word Missionary Formation
Learn about the formation program of Divine Word Missionaries and Discern your call to religious life with the SVD.
Brazil South Province
In South Brazil, the Divine Word Missionaries relaunched the mission for facing the new challenges of the modern Brazil (in Portuguese).
