2021 Review from Fr Liam in Pakistan

2021 Review from Fr Liam in Pakistan

The long shadow of Covid has hung over the world causing much suffering and death, as well as substantial economic loss. According to the WHO, as of 21 December 2021, worldwide over 275 million people have been infected with Covid and 5.36 million deaths reported, but...
Fr David Kenneally: Afghanistan has paid a huge price

Fr David Kenneally: Afghanistan has paid a huge price

I’m struggling to understand the purpose of the last almost 20 years in Afghanistan writes Columban missionary, Fr David Kenneally. The many lives that were lost and those that were injured or maimed. Afghanistan has paid a huge price. Everyone has. In neighbouring...
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...
A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

Columban lay missionary Hazel Angwani is from Bontoc, Mountain Province in the Philippines. She is currently on mission in Pakistan. She writes about a recent photograph she took of a Tribal woman.   There is a saying, ‘A picture speaks a thousand words.’ When I took...