On Saturday, June 27, 2026, the five Brothers Firmin Niyonkuru, Edmond Nshimirimana, Hervé Arakaza, Dionise Niragira, and Cyprien Hatungimana professed their perpetual vows in the Congregation of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine. In the parish of St. Augustine in Bikinga, [...]
On June 28, 2026, the thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Superior General, Father Sergio La Pegna, accompanied by the Secretary General of the Congregation, Father Dieudonné Nyamweru, and the delegate for Burundi, Father Fidèle Ntunzwenimana, celebrated the Eucharist [...]
On the left, Vincenzo Arcadipane, accompanied by the lay brothers of the Congregation on a pilgrimage to Paris. Among them is the Superior General, Father Sergio La Pegna The pilgrimage to France of the Congregation of the Fathers [...]
On Saturday, May 9th, at 8:00 PM in the Madonna Assunta parish, the Doctrinaries offered the city of Vittoria the opportunity to remember Father Lodovico Santoro—the great priest who gave his energy and life "without measure," from 1967 to [...]
On May 22nd, the City of Vittoria, under Mayor Francesco Aiello, returned Piazza San Cesare de Bus to the public. The square is located between the two parishes entrusted to the Doctrinaries, Madonna Assunta and Madonna delle Lacrime. The [...]
Father Martin Xalxo was ordained a priest on April 25, 2026, in Samtoli, at the Cathedral of Saint Anne in the Diocese of Simdega, by Bishop Vincent Barwa. Here is his testimony. The ordination ceremony was celebrated in a spirit [...]
by Andrea GagliarducciEveryone remembers him for his smile, his affability, and his role as a priest among the people. Or better yet, a "living catechism," as Marilena Dragone and Giuseppe Gagliarducci write in a slim book dedicated to the life [...]
p. Schadrack Matthieu Dunia, dc The celebration for the canonical erection of the new parish of Rugero, dedicated to Saint Cesar de Bus, on September 1, 2025, was presided over by Msgr. Joachim Ntahondereye, Bishop of Muyinga, with Father [...]
Celebration for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Father Binay Kumar Guria's ordination, Sunday, March 1, 2026, during the 10:00 a.m. Mass in the parish of Gesù Nazareno in Turin. Durante la concelebrazione con il Superiore Generale della Congregazione, padre Sergio [...]
On Sunday, November 30, 2025, the doctrinaries community of Gitega began pastoral activity in the branch of Nyabibuye, in Burundi, which will soon become a parish. During the mass, Monsignor Bonaventura Nahimana, Archbishop of Gitega, introduced Father Gilbert as [...]
