Columban Outreach to Pakistan Flood Victims: December Update

Columban Outreach to Pakistan Flood Victims: December Update

One of the main issues for poor families in rural areas of Sindh province in Pakistan, who have lost livestock and crops, is food security, writes Fr Liam O’Callaghan. In some of the worst affected areas they have been unable to plant crops for the coming season as...
Update from Fr Tomás King on the Flood Situation in Pakistan

Update from Fr Tomás King on the Flood Situation in Pakistan

In recent years, my main ministry in Hyderabad is as director of the Joti Centre, the catechetical centre for the diocese, writes Tomás King. Like all other organisations within the church, as well as NGOs and civil society, the staff of Joti Centre got involved in...
Fr John McEvoy Celebrates Fifty in Fiji

Fr John McEvoy Celebrates Fifty in Fiji

“Do this in memory of me.” Following Christ’s command, on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972, Bishop John McCormack of Meath ordained John McEvoy and his nine classmates into the priesthood as Columban missionary priests in Dalgan Park, recalls Fr Donal McIlraith. Later that...
Stations of the Cross for the Care of Creation

Stations of the Cross for the Care of Creation

Fr Liam O’Callaghan and members of the Diocesan Ecology Commission worked with 49 participants from various parishes and schools, who attended a Lenten Preparation Programme run by Fr Tomás King and the Joti Educational and Cultural Centre of Hyderabad Diocese in...
Memorial Mass for three Columbans buried in Lahore

Memorial Mass for three Columbans buried in Lahore

Last month four Columbans from the Pakistan Mission Unit travelled to Lahore for a Memorial Mass for the three Columbans buried there, writes Fr Tomás King. The three are: lay missionary Pilar Tilos, Fr Pat McCaffrey and Fr Tommy ‘Tanvir’ O’Hanlon. We were unable to...