Letter from Wuhan: Learning from Teilhard de Chardin

Letter from Wuhan: Learning from Teilhard de Chardin

A weekend notification from the office responsible for the control of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan has indicated that new measures are being introduced to counteract the threat of the Delta variant. People from outside the province are being told to avoid travel...
AITECE looks forward to renewed activity in 2022

AITECE looks forward to renewed activity in 2022

The Volunteer Teachers for China, a Columban-sponsored programme also known as AITECE, has been facing a number of challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Hugh MacMahon explains. The teachers who never left China were allowed to stay on but those who left for...
Wuhan: Simple blessings of Catholic community life

Wuhan: Simple blessings of Catholic community life

On Tuesday of last week, I was invited to join a group of people going to the town of Xiaogan, on the northern outskirts of Wuhan, to visit Fr Joachim Shu. Over the past two years, Fr Shu’s health has deteriorated seriously due to a number of blockages in his...
Wuhan: Catching up with people after lockdown ends

Wuhan: Catching up with people after lockdown ends

A phone call this morning from Han Weiwei led to further discussions about our planned meeting later in the week at his side of Wuhan. One year ago, his daily phone calls became a familiar part of the 11 weeks of lockdown. The return to normal life in the city has...
A Syrian-born Columban missionary in China

A Syrian-born Columban missionary in China

Fr Dan Troy recalls a fascinating article in the Far East magazine in 1934 by Syrian-born Fr Peter Gabriel, a Columban missionary who lived in China in the 1930s. As the spring rain poured down on Wuhan during the first week of February I was quite happy to delay my...