Risking All for Christ

Risking All for Christ

As the Columban Sisters open their centenary year, Sarah Mac Donald speaks to Congregational Leader Sr Anne Carbon about her life as a missionary and the challenges ahead. “To be a Columban you need to be a risk-taker,” Sr Anne Carbon states matter-of-factly....
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...
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....
Fr Eamon secures funding for women’s addiction centre

Fr Eamon secures funding for women’s addiction centre

Columban missionary Fr Eamon Sheridan writes from Myanmar with the good news that he has secured funding from Misean Cara and Missio Germany to start building a women’s centre in Myitkyina to help women suffering from addiction. “We will start building 1 November...