Columban Centenary Altar Cloth’s Adventures in Fiji

Columban Centenary Altar Cloth’s Adventures in Fiji

Fr Donal McIlraith writes from Fiji about the recent visit of the Columban Centenary Altar Cloth and the various difficulties he and Lay Missionary Marjorie Engcoy encountered in bringing it to remote parishes, where it was warmly welcomed in thanksgiving for one...
New headstone for Columban martyr Fr Timothy Leonard

New headstone for Columban martyr Fr Timothy Leonard

John M Leonard is a relative of Fr Timothy Leonard, the first martyr of the Missionary Society of St Columban, who was killed in China in 1929. John Leonard recently visited China for the sixth time, with the purpose of visiting his martyred relative’s grave at San...
Greetings from the ‘land of the pure’

Greetings from the ‘land of the pure’

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...