A student from Thornhill College, Derry, Trinity McKeever, has won this year’s Columban Schools Journalism Competition print category while a student from Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine /Kenmare Community School, Aishling Rochford, has won the video category. The...
Fr Shay Cullen writes about the impact of Covid-19 and asks if some of the measures taken to counter the spread of this virus could be applied to efforts to combat child trafficking and child sexual abuse. Think about it. It is amazing that one tiny, invisible...
A catholic in Wuhan writes for ICN about the situation in the city at the centre of the Covid-19 Coronovirus infection. In September 1996, at the parish church in Hiratsuka, Japan, I met Kintaro Koura-san for the first time. At that time he was 79 years of age, a...
Renowned eco-theologian and Columban missionary Fr Sean McDonagh will be the keynote speaker at this weekend’s Laudato Si reflection day hosted by the Conference of Religious of England and Wales in London. The day aims to help Religious mobilise so as to lend...
From Mirpurkhas in Pakistan, Fr Pat Raleigh pays tribute to Columban missionary Sr Redempta Twomey, Assistant Editor of the Far East magazine, who died on 27th February 2020. Just as I was about to have lunch a few hours ago with Tomás King, he told me the sad news...
A one-day conference will take place on 28th March 2020 in Dalgan Park on the relevance of Saints Finian, Colmcille and Columbanus for Ireland and Europe today. Organised by the Association Friends of St Columbanus and the Columban Ecological Institute, the...
Ben Malone from the National Biodiversity Centre will facilitate the Columban Ecological Institute's first workshop of 2020. He will guide the group through the concept of citizen science and will also help the group to identify and record the species which they...
Fr Pat Raleigh writes about his return visit to Pakistan where he is researching the history of Columban mission in that country from 1979 until today. On Tuesday, 11th February, I left Dalgan to spend six weeks in Pakistan. It was bitterly cold and snowing. I...
Columban documentary maker, Fr Malachy Smyth, held a special screening of his latest work with Paul Harney of 'Thats That' production company on the homeless and housing crisis in Ireland at Dalgan Park on Thursday. Afterwards the showing of 'To Wish for a Home',...
Fr Pat Raleigh reports on Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees ceremony, at Dalgan. Even the inclement weather caused by Storm Ciara did not deter a large crowd from travelling to Dalgan on Sunday afternoon for an interfaith celebration of Tu B'Shavat, the...