Warmi Huasi Project promotes childrens’ rights in Peru

Warmi Huasi Project promotes childrens’ rights in Peru

The work of the Warmi Huasi Project in Peru during 2021. Warmi Huasi was set up by Columban missionary Fr Ed O’Connell to accompany families, especially children at risk, who are living in situations of poverty. The name Warmi Huasi comes from the Indian Quechua...
Fr Peter Hughes: Living his Best Life

Fr Peter Hughes: Living his Best Life

An interview with 80-year-old Columban missionary, Fr Peter Hughes, co-ordinator of indigenous and human rights for REPAM, a Catholic Church network that promotes the right and dignity of people living in the Amazon by Mike Finnerty of the Mayo News. Imagine becoming...
Poverty levels are still above pre-pandemic levels in Peru

Poverty levels are still above pre-pandemic levels in Peru

I find people resilient by nature but somewhat worn down by the length of the pandemic and the grieving for those they have lost, writes Columban missionary Fr Ed O’Connell in Peru.   The total number of Covid cases in Peru is more than three and a half million and...
Columbans in Chile Grapple with Refugee Crisis

Columbans in Chile Grapple with Refugee Crisis

During October 2021, several Venezuelan women living in Casa Betania, a House of Hospitality for female migrants in the Columban parish of San Columbano, in Santiago, Chile, offered to tell their stories to Columban missionary Fr Dan Harding. Their identities have...
Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher

Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher

Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher was born on 21 January 1943 in Donaghedy, Co Tyrone and was educated in Loughash PS and St Columb’s, Derry. He joined the Columbans in Dalgan Park, Navan in 1960 and was ordained there on 21 December 1966. Paddy then did postgraduate studies...