Update from Fr Liam O’Callaghan in Pakistan

Update from Fr Liam O’Callaghan in Pakistan

Columban missionary Fr Liam O’Callaghan in Hyderabad in Pakistan has sent this update about the Columbans’ work in 2018. Greetings to you from the ‘land of the pure’ which is the meaning of the word Pakistan, I hope this finds you and your loved ones well and in...
At Christmas we are drawn to reflect on our ‘home’

At Christmas we are drawn to reflect on our ‘home’

Every human heart yearns to belong, writes Sr Anne Ryan in the Christmas editorial of the Far East magazine. At Christmastime we are drawn to reflect on our place of belonging, our ‘home’. This sense of being drawn to home may be part of our nature, our cultural...
Mission in a Muslim Country

Mission in a Muslim Country

“Allahu akbar, God is greater,” begins the call to prayer from the loud speakers of the thousands of mosques throughout Pakistan. We absolutely say AMEN to the GREATNESS of GOD. Pakistan has a population of two hundred million people of whom about 96% are...
Greetings from the ‘land of the pure’

Greetings from the ‘land of the pure’

Fr Liam O’Callaghan sends an update on his work in the ‘land of the pure’ which is the meaning of the word Pakistan – the seventh most vulnerable country to climate change in the world. I am based in Hyderabad city, with a population of 1.73 million, the second...