A new law setting the age of consent at 16 years old has just been passed in the Philippines. Any sexual act with a minor 16 years and below will be statutory rape carrying a life sentence. Standing against child sexual abuse, campaigning for improved child...
Traditional Chinese paintings that show the natural world depend on just two colours to convey their meaning. Black ink on white paper is the only approach available to the artist. Another feature of these paintings is that a huge part of the natural world can be...
Fianna Fáil Councillor, Fintan Phelan, paid tribute to the Columban Fathers and Columban Sisters who, he said, played “a pivotal role” in steering the new Columban Way heritage trail to completion, culminating in its official launch last weekend. Football legend...
Irish soccer legend Paul McGrath will launch ‘The Columban Way’ this weekend at the Columban Cairn, at the Nine Stones Viewing Point on the Blackstairs Mountain. Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin will bless and lead the walk from the Cairn down into...
Francis Xavier La Aung Nbwi and Peter Kyaw Zaw (pronounced Cho-zo) are the first Myanmar seminarians to come through the Columban seminary system, writes Fr Donal McIlraith. They both grew up in the Kachin area of Myanmar, an area evangelised by the Columbans from...
Synodality won't be relevant to younger generations unless our ‘walking together’ addresses the issue that will soon have the greatest impact upon their lives. That was Columban ecologist Fr Sean McDonagh‘s stark warning to a Zoom gathering of over 160 people on...
“Why would people so far away care so much for us?” one person asked Fr Eamon Sheridan when he told people at the Rebirth Rehabilitation Centre in Myanmar's Kachin State that readers of the Far East had donated enough money to finish the building of the dormitory...
There is just two weeks to the deadline of this year’s Columban Schools Media Competition. The theme is: ‘Anyone can make a difference: 21st Century Changemakers’ and students are invited to enter an article or an image by 11 February 2022. Young people aged 13-18...
Sr Caroline Vaitkunas RSM, Peace, Ecology and Justice Team member at the Columban Mission Centre in Essendon, Australia reports on the urgent need for assistance in Fiji in the wake of Category 1 Cyclone Cody, which hit the country on 10th January and caused...
The Missionary Society of St Columban is joining the global celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The theme for 2022 is: “We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship Him.” The scriptural base for the theme comes from the Gospel account of...