Changing the Narrative

Changing the Narrative

World Day of Migrants and Refugees is Sunday 29th September 2024. Nathalie Marytsch has been a Columban Lay Missionary in Birmingham for more than twenty years. The call to mission has seen her accompanying refugees and diverse communities of people newly arrived in...
Newly Ordained Columbans

Newly Ordained Columbans

On 10th April 2024, I travelled to Suva for Fr Iowane Naio’s ordination at the Sacred Heart Cathedral. The night before, Columban priests gathered with Iowane’s relatives at our Columban Mission Office for the traditional kava ceremony. Iowane entered the room,...
Wakein Educational Centre in Myanmar

Wakein Educational Centre in Myanmar

Sr Kathleen Coyle writes about Mary Man’s incredible work in Myanmar to feed and educate children in the slums of Yangon and the detrimental effect of the military coup on this project. Wakein village can hardly be called a village. It is a large depressed slum area...
Floods Damage Myitkyina’s Rehabilitation Centre

Floods Damage Myitkyina’s Rehabilitation Centre

“We were all safe and well,” writes Columban missionary Fr Eamon Sheridan from Myanmar where torrential rain resulted in the mighty Irrawaddy River breaking its banks and damaging the buildings at the Rebirth Rehabilitation Centre in Myitkyina.   ‘Don’t you care, we...
Historic Day: First Columban from Myanmar Ordained

Historic Day: First Columban from Myanmar Ordained

The feast of St Joseph the Worker, 1st May 2024, was a historic day for the Columban Missionaries as Francis Xavier Nbwi la Aung from Myanmar, was ordained priest at St Luke’s Church, Edin, Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar. He is the first Columban from Myanmar...