Columbans provide food to Pakistan’s flood victims

Columbans provide food to Pakistan’s flood victims

An update from Pakistan from Fr Pat Visanti on Columban efforts to help some of those worst affected by the recent floods in the parish of Badin. Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish is located in a rural city of Badin. It is about three hours’ drive from Pakistan’s...
Devastation in Pakistan

Devastation in Pakistan

This year has seen one of the worst monsoon seasons in Pakistan in decades. The rain that started in June is still continuing. Up to 1,136 people have lost their lives, writes Columban missionary Fr Liam O’Callaghan. The Government has declared a national emergency as...
Fr Pat Visanti on life as a Columban missionary in Pakistan

Fr Pat Visanti on life as a Columban missionary in Pakistan

Columban missionary Fr Pat Visanti is from Rotuma, a Polynesian island in Fiji. On a recent visit home he shared with our Columban seminarians some of his experiences of being on mission in Pakistan. Fr Frank Hoare recalls a few stories he told. Mistaken Identity When...
Murder of a Landless Farm Worker

Murder of a Landless Farm Worker

Columban missionary Fr Daniel O’Connor writes about the killing of a landless farm worker in a dispute over water and wood and the fear landlords wield over whole villages in Pakistan.   On a very hot day in May, Shomo working alone, was trimming back thorn bushes...
Farewell to Pakistan

Farewell to Pakistan

Having spent almost five weeks in isolation in the Joti Catechetical Centre in Mirpurkhas in Pakistan, Fr Pat Raleigh was delighted in the final week of his stay to be able to travel to Karachi ahead of his return journey to Dalgan. I am indebted to Fr Tomás King for...