"Allahu akbar, God is greater," begins the call to prayer from the loud speakers of the thousands of mosques throughout Pakistan. We absolutely say AMEN to the GREATNESS of GOD. Pakistan has a population of two hundred million people of whom about 96% are Muslim,...
Fr Liam O’Callaghan sends an update on his work in the ‘land of the pure’ which is the meaning of the word Pakistan - the seventh most vulnerable country to climate change in the world. I am based in Hyderabad city, with a population of 1.73 million, the second...
More and more people are being murdered for protecting their communities from miners, loggers and dam builders warns Fr Sean McDonagh, SSC as he pays tribute to Fr Marcelito Paez killed on 4 December 2017. 2016 was a perilous year for people who were defending...
An article by Milwida M. Guevara published in the Philippines Daily Bulletin on 12 December 2017. I tried to focus on the celebration of the mass yesterday but my memory kept drifting to the past. My friend, Fr Michael Mohally, a Columban priest, celebrated his...
It was a privilege for Fr Tomás King to share a last goodbye with a one-week-old baby girl and resulted in an encounter with the Mystery of Love. When I was sixteen years old, my father was diagnosed with cancer and died ten weeks later. Soon afterwards, I dropped...
Fr Sean Connaughton gives thanks for the Grameen banking system which operates on the belief that most of its poor borrowers can be trusted to repay their small loans. The Grameen Bank was founded in 1970 by Professor Muhammad Yunus, a former professor of economics...
Writing in the September/October 2017 issue of the Far East magazine, Columban missionary, Fr Donal O’Keeffe looks at how the various faith traditions in Korea have worked together to the common good. Editorial Some time ago I came across the following reflection...