International Earth Day on 22nd April

International Earth Day on 22nd April

International Earth Day is a global event celebrated annually on 22nd April. The first-ever Earth Day took place in the USA in 1970 to raise awareness about environmental issues. Today over one billion people in 190 countries mark and participate in the event. The...
Our Common Home

Our Common Home

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ is five years old this month and captures the social, economic and environmental justice in building and protecting Our Common Home. It details a pathway of hope as we face the plant’s environmental crisis. Watch as...
The Challenge of Climate Change: A Cry For Action

The Challenge of Climate Change: A Cry For Action

This is the winning article in the 2019 Columban Schools Journalism Competition in Ireland. It is by 17-year-old Ailbhe Murphy, a student of the Salerno Secondary School in Galway City. A Cry For Action On 8 October 2018, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on...
Columban Lay Missionaries host ‘Come & See’ day

Columban Lay Missionaries host ‘Come & See’ day

Columban Lay Missionaries in Ireland are holding a ‘Come & See’ day in Dalgan Park in May. The day is being co-ordinated by Kyung-Ja Lee and it aims to provide participants with an opportunity to learn about the life of Columban Lay Missionaries and to listen to...
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...