Nemi (Agenzia Fides) - In the late morning of Monday, July 9, the Holy Father Benedict XVI visited the "Ad Gentes" Centre of the Missionaries of the Divine Word (Society of the Divine Word, SVD) in ...

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 17th General Chapter of the Society of Divine Word (SVD), taking place in Nemi (Rome), yesterday elected Fr. Heinz Kulüke as new Superior General of the SVD. Since 2005 he ...

Participants in the 19th General Chapter of the great congregation present in 79 countries and today more than half of them are missionaries of Asian origin were received at the Vatican. And to a ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has named a 49-year-old Indian member of the Society of the Divine Word to be the new archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Bulawayo has been without an archbishop ...

MANILA, Philippines — Apart from furthering the priestly vocation, the Divine Word Missionary has been zealously advocating its ‘bamboo mission,’ an ambitious initiative to plant a million bamboos in ...

Rev. Tom Ascheman, SVD, has returned to his alma mater to become the ninth president of Divine Word College (DWC), Epworth. For the past six years, Ascheman has been the provincial superior of the ...

Brother Dennis Newton SVD, 62, passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2014, surrounded by family, friends and fellow Divine Word Missionaries. The Mission Center was founded in 1958 and Brother Dennis was ...

Three weeks ago, on Oct. 5, Pope John Paul II canonized two 19th-century missionaries together with Blessed Daniel Comboni, the first bishop of Central Africa. The Register reported on the event in a ...