Fr Raymond Husband re-elected as Regional Director

Fr Raymond Husband re-elected as Regional Director

Fr Raymond Husband has been re-elected as Regional Director of the Missionary Society of St Columban in Ireland. The Navan-native led the region over the past three years. He will be assisted in his next term of office by Fr Padraig O’Donovan, who replaces Fr Gerry...
Thank You From the Bottom of our Hearts

Thank You From the Bottom of our Hearts

The response to Fr Eamon Sheridan’s article about building a women’s dormitory in Myanmar’s Kachin State to help women with drug and alcohol addiction was phenomenal! The centre is part of a life-giving support programme which the Church offers drug addicts and...
Best wishes to our co-worker Claire Carey as she retires!

Best wishes to our co-worker Claire Carey as she retires!

On the Feast of St Clare, the community in Dalgan gathered to thank Claire Carey for her many years of service to Columban Mission and to wish her every blessing and good health in her retirement. On behalf of the Region, Fr Ray Husband, Regional Director, thanked...
Meet a Columban – Fr Gary Walker SSC

Meet a Columban – Fr Gary Walker SSC

Fr Jim Mulroney speaks to Fr Gary Walker, who currently lives at the Columban house in the Australian city of Brisbane, about his experience of being assigned to the mission in Jamaica. Fr Gary previously served as Regional Director of Australia and New Zealand and as...
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...