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Finding a Place to Pray

Finding a Place to Pray

Fr Paul Glynn writes about his work with the Dublin City Interfaith Forum which promotes acceptance and cooperation between the diverse religious communities that now exist in Ireland. Anyone who has had the misfortune of ending up in an overcrowded hospital...

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Jemuel’s Story

Jemuel’s Story

Fr Vincent Busch recounts how a young Subanen man managed to escape with his life but not without injury from Jihadists in Mindanao. Thanks to the Columbans he is now recovered and a skilled Subanen Crafter. The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral...

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Changing the Narrative

Changing the Narrative

World Day of Migrants and Refugees is Sunday 29th September 2024. Nathalie Marytsch has been a Columban Lay Missionary in Birmingham for more than twenty years. The call to mission has seen her accompanying refugees and diverse communities of people newly arrived...

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Newly Ordained Columbans

Newly Ordained Columbans

On 10th April 2024, I travelled to Suva for Fr Iowane Naio’s ordination at the Sacred Heart Cathedral. The night before, Columban priests gathered with Iowane’s relatives at our Columban Mission Office for the traditional kava ceremony. Iowane entered the room,...

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A House of Hospitality

A House of Hospitality

Danny Sweeney was invited by the Columbans to spend a year experiencing cross-cultural mission in Chile. This Columban ministry of hospitality to migrant communities left a lasting impression on him.   “I found these at the market for you!” exclaimed Karl as he...

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The Gift of Change

The Gift of Change

When we see so many people of other cultures in our churches, when we see priests and Sisters from other cultures ministering in our midst, let us give thanks to our God who gifts us with the challenge of intercultural living so that God’s kingdom may be realised...

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Remembering Niall

Remembering Niall

I was blessed to be a classmate and a dear friend of the late Fr Niall O’Brien. He was a wonderful person, artistic, intelligent, an excellent writer, a man of deep spirituality with an infectious sense of humour. He had a gift for learning languages and quickly...

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