Columban Fr Dylan Tabaco tells Fr John Boles how he thought he knew all about walking, until he came to Peru and met someone who’d walked across half a continent. The Covid-19 pandemic may have brought hardship and tragedy to countless numbers throughout the world,...
The empowerment of women and girls is a most urgent need in today’s world where discrimination, violence and exploitation of women and girls, especially in the developing world, is tearing the heart out of society and family life causing human suffering, exclusion,...
Columban missionary Fr Eamonn O’Brien appeals for financial support for a new monastery of Augustinian nuns which opened in China in recent years and which is also running a home for the elderly. I have been visiting China since 1979 and working there for twenty...
To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Columban martyr Fr Tony Collier, we publish here the sworn account of his catechist Gabriel Kim of the last days of Fr Tony. The account outlines the circumstances of his death. Gabriel Kim himself was shot while tied to...
Vida Hequilan, Coordinator of Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team in Hong Kong, writes about 30 years of Columban Lay Mission. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Columban Lay Missionaries (CLM). Looking back on the past three decades has made me realize...
Columban Lay Missionary Angie Escarsa reflects on the Covid-19 crisis and believes that God is not silent but is speaking to us more than ever during this pandemic. For months, my family has been faithful in praying the rosary as requested by Pope Francis after the...
It always seems to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshift way, know more about life than those who govern. (John Berger) Albert Artwell, Jamaican artist, lived in my area of Jamaica. He was deeply influenced by his...
Fr Paul Glynn is the Regional Director of the Columbans in the Philippines. He has drawn on his experience of confinement some years ago when the situation was tense in the Southern Philippines to help him through the Covid-19 lockdown. Like many other Columban...
Can humanity ever be united in doing good, asks Fr Shay Cullen. Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti - ‘Brothers and Sisters All’ is one that should touch every heart, stimulate our minds, awaken our conscience, warm our emotions and motivate us to do...
One hundred years ago the first Columbans arrived in China. Fr Neil Collins recalls the challenges they faced in places like Hanyang – “a city of no Catholics”. "Didn’t this luggage belong to the Irish missionaries to China?" asked a dock worker in Liverpool. Fr...