Brother Bernie Spitzley SVD, administrator of St. Patrick parish in Kingston, Jamaica, and a volunteer unload rice from the car  for the Poor.

Bottom Left: Fr Niran Veigas SVD (back right) and Fr Hung Nguyen SVD with students from the local school.

The SVDs has accomplished one year in the Tiwi Islands in Australia. The Tiwi Islands is a remote and culturally significant region in Australia's Northern Territory. Among the prominent communities on the islands, Wurrumiyanga stands out as a place where Catholicism has deep influence in the lives of the local Tiwi people.

On November 20, 2023, the Divine Word Missionaries of the India East Province (INE) celebrated Platinum Jubilee of its graceful and fruitful mission existence right from 1948 to 2023. (Check the PDF).

The 17th Death Anniversary of Servant of God Marian Zelazek, SVD, was celebrated with great enthusiasm and reverence at various places in Puri, Odisha, on Sunday, 30th April 2023. Father Marian, popularly called BAPA, left for his eternal reward on this day in 2006 at the Jeebaramji Leprosy Colony near Lokanath Temple in Puri. On the day he died, BAPA participated in the ASTA PRAHARI organized on AKHAYA TRITIYA at the leprosy colony. He was returning to his vehicle when his call came to leave his KARMA BHOOMI for his eternal reward.

The senior confreres of the SVD AUS Province might have stepped away from missionary duties in Papua New Guinea and other places, or full-time ministry in Australia, but you’ll still find most of them up and out of bed by 6am and continuing to pursue mission in different ways.

From Oies to China through Steyl: a documentary film made by Steyl Medien (Germany)

The practical implications of the view of mission that places God himself at the center were the subject of a workshop in Siegburg at the beginning of November, attended by about 25 Divine Word missionaries and missiologists. The three SVD Institutes at Sankt Augustin saw the occasion for this workshop in their founding anniversaries 90 years ago (Anthropos Institute), 60 years ago (SVD Missiological Institute) and 50 years ago (Monumenta Serica in Sankt Augustin). The understanding of mission as “missio Dei” (mission of God) started 70 years ago from a mission conference of Protestant churches.

Oisho Bani Society, a NGO with a vision: ‘Towards a holistic Society based on Human Values’ had a review meeting of all the beneficiaries in Ambassa. The revolving fund for self – reliance had started in a small way in 2019 helping the poor families to rear livestock with only Rupees 1,20,000 (one lakh twenty thousand).

Saint Joseph, the Most Chaste Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the Patron of the SVD Vietnam Province. This year, the Province had many activities to celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph (March 19) in such as:

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Urban Community Development Centre (UCDC), a social service centre of Society of the Divine Word, INM Province, organized Women’s Day Celebration on the 13th of March, 2022. The theme for the day was the same of UN; “Gender Equality today for a Sustainable Tomorrow”. There were 575 participants: 500 women, 40 men, and 35 students. All the participants were welcomed with a badge that highlighted the theme of the day.

Fatima, 05 Oct 2021 (Ecclesia) - Father Sebastian Joseph, a Divine Word Missionary from India. He received his first missionary assignment to Portugal 19 years ago. After all these years of mission, he no longer feels like a foreigner in Portugal.

Frt. James Jimson is doing his OTP experience in Köröm, Hungary. He arrived in Hungary on October 8, 2019. He describes his Overseas Training Program as meaningful and enriching. Here is his story.

The jubilee year in a congregation is a time of restoration and opening a new story of God's love for its members and people. It is an excellent time to celebrate the wonders the Lord has already done in the history of a congregation. It is a time of forgiveness, renewal of bonds of friendship and fraternity. It is a new covenant between members of the congregation and the people of a community.

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St. Arnold once said that our publications should be appealing mouth for the salvation of souls so that those who read our publications would find pearls toward eternal life. While publication has been constantly part and parcel of our mission outreach, the means are constantly developing, which requires us to continuously updating our mission animation tools.

The SVD Lay Partners, INM (Disciples of the Divine Word - DDW) celebrated the Passover Seder on Saturday, 30th March, 2019 at Atma-Darshan, Mumbai.

Our Sendi Mission dedicated to Sacred Heart of Jesus was started by Holy Spirit Fathers in the year 1921 and handed over to SVDs in the year 2009. Since then our confreres are doing a wonderful mission work in the area covering the Municipality of Quipungo. This mission has 16 village chapels, boys and girls hostels, a school up to 9th class, a dispensary and animal farm of cows, poultry, piggery and goats.

Ambassa, February 24, 2019: Holy Spirit Ambassa Parish Pastoral Council decided to celebrate the Childhood Day through Medical camps and Distributing cloths to the poor children in the villages.

If Mary of Magdala were to return today, what would she say? Would we accept our missionary discipleship with the promptness and love that she showed her beloved Master? Who was Mary Magdalene really? We attempted to answer these and other questions during the XI Missionary Meeting held in Dueñas (Palencia-Spain) from 12th to 14th October, 2018. To this end, 120 people - lay and religious - from Palencia, Ponferrada, Valladolid, Zamora, Navarra, Alcorcón, Móstoles, Madrid, Mérida and Cádiz gathered together.

A workshop on ‘Mission Animation’ for the Divine Word Missionaries involved in Mission/Pastoral ministries was held at Shanti Bhavan, Jharsuguda on 18-19 July 2018. Fr. Ronald Pereira, SVD Provincial Superior and Fr.Petrus Kullu, SVD Vice Provincial inaugurated the programme by lighting the lamp and welcoming the participants.

Migrant and Refugee Sunday was celebrated by the Marsfield Community on Sunday, 19th August which centred around the theme of ‘Multiculturalism’. The day began with Mass at 9am, the main celebrant was Fr. Francis Gerry, concelebrating with him were six of our confreres. The celebration was all about uniqueness and diversity, our unique gifts, talents and bringing together of cultures which was evident in the cultural programme that followed the Mass.