Saturday 29 April, 2023 was indeed an eventful day in Bagamoyo, Tanzania mainly because of the Silver Jubilee celebration of the existence of Marian Girls School built on the location of the former Marian freedom village and few meters from the Stella Maris Hotel, the venue of the two recent General Chapters (Bagamoyo I in…
This year, towards the end of March 2023, the Superior General had applied for a papal audience to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the fusion of our Congregation in 1848 and on 3rd May we were delighted to receive the news that it would take place on Monday, 8th May at 11.00 in the Consistory…
Kilimpe Garbicha, Superior of the Spiritans in Ethiopia, has just shared with us news of the catastrophic situation of the nomadic communities in the remote part of the country where the Spiritans have been working since 1972. These communities are currently suffering a humanitarian catastrophe. Kilimpe shared the information and you can read more about…
The celebrations of the tercentenary of the of the foundation of our congregation in 2003 brought together different groups working in the region of Latin America with a theme “the spiritan presence in Latin America.” Among their common projects, the spiritan mission to Bolivia was of special importance: it was a mission near Brazil and…
Pope Francis landed in South Sudan, the youngest independent country, on the afternoon of 3 February. The trip had to be postponed because of his health problems, but Francis never thought of postponing this important and symbolic visit to one of the most violent places on the planet. Sister Beta Almendra, a Comboni Sister living…
Pope Francis has filled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with courage before visiting South Sudan. At least, he wanted this and tried it with this bold and prophetic visit to sadly symbolic places, where civil wars and greed for wealth have reached levels of extreme cruelty. The Pope decided to visit these two of…
Saint Pope John Paul II instituted the World Day of Consecrated life in 1996 to answer the intimate need to praise the Lord more solemnly and to thank him for the great gift of consecrated life, to promote a knowledge of and esteem for the consecrated life by the entire People of God and to…
From 19th to 29th September 2022, the General Council held a meeting of 17 new Spiritan superiors. The last such Meeting was in March 2019 which had concluded just two days before the official announcement of the COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown. The 17 new superiors were from many different provinces and groups around the…
On October 2, 2022, the Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Rev. Fr. Alain Mayama, launched the process of animation of the Congregation, following the decisions of the General Chapter of Bagamoyo 2021. You can watch the launching of the animation process through this link https://youtu.be/X3cxjznYfOo
Today, 11 May, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Toussaint Ngoma Foumanet, C.S.Sp., a member of the Province of Congo Brazzaville and Coordinator of the Union of Circumscriptions of Central Africa (UCSAC), as Bishop of the Diocese of Dolisie (Republic of Congo). Fr. Toussaint Ngoma Foumanet was born on 1 November 1975 in Sibiti, then…