“The only reason given was Francis Xavier.” Jesuits in India spread agricultural knowledge, popularised the printing press and set up schools. The most recent census, in 2011, found that 2.3% ...

Jill Schildhouse Sitting just south of Tucson on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Mission San Xavier del Bac (known as the White Dove of the Desert) is one of the finest examples of baroque ...

Global media also reported on once-a-decade exposition of St. Francis Xavier's 472-yr-old corpse in Goa, reflecting on how Christian community's being increasingly targeted in the country.

Xavier led by as many as 16 in the second half before St. John's stormed back to win it in overtime Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.