Columbans provide food to Pakistan’s flood victims

Columbans provide food to Pakistan’s flood victims

An update from Pakistan from Fr Pat Visanti on Columban efforts to help some of those worst affected by the recent floods in the parish of Badin. Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish is located in a rural city of Badin. It is about three hours’ drive from Pakistan’s...
Murder of a Landless Farm Worker

Murder of a Landless Farm Worker

Columban missionary Fr Daniel O’Connor writes about the killing of a landless farm worker in a dispute over water and wood and the fear landlords wield over whole villages in Pakistan.   On a very hot day in May, Shomo working alone, was trimming back thorn bushes...
2020 Review by Fr Liam O’Callaghan in Pakistan

2020 Review by Fr Liam O’Callaghan in Pakistan

Last year was turned upside-down by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused such devastation, death and suffering; worldwide almost 80 million people have been infected with 1.75 million deaths. Many experts see those figures almost certainly to be an under-estimation....
Farewell to Pakistan

Farewell to Pakistan

Having spent almost five weeks in isolation in the Joti Catechetical Centre in Mirpurkhas in Pakistan, Fr Pat Raleigh was delighted in the final week of his stay to be able to travel to Karachi ahead of his return journey to Dalgan. I am indebted to Fr Tomás King for...