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...
Returning Irish missionaries and the Irish Church

Returning Irish missionaries and the Irish Church

Columban Fr Hugh MacMahon has an article in the June 2020 issue of The Furrow titled ‘Finding the Way Back’ which looks at the contribution returning Irish missionaries can play in the Irish Church.   Extract: It is hard to know which is the most urgent challenge...