Peru Covid Update from Fr Ed O’Connell

Peru Covid Update from Fr Ed O’Connell

Fr Ed O’Connell reports on a Columban celebration at communal kitchens serving the vulnerable in Peru. At long last we have a president, primary school teacher Pedro Castillo, with an MA in Educational Psychology. He took over on 28 July, coming to power on the 200th...
Update from Fr Ed on Peru’s desperate Covid situation

Update from Fr Ed on Peru’s desperate Covid situation

The total number of cases of Covid-19 on 31st May was 1,961,087 (49.9% in Lima Department and Province of Callao); authorities recently updated the figures by 184,507 deaths, writes Fr Ed O’Connell. The number of cases in Lima are now equal to outside Lima and...
Meet a Columban – Fr John Hegerty SSC

Meet a Columban – Fr John Hegerty SSC

In this episode of ‘Meet a Columban’, Fr Jim Mulroney speaks to Fr John Hegerty SSC who has been in Peru since 1971. Born in 1941 in Redesdale, central Victoria in Australia, he grew up on his parents’ 1,700 acre sheep and cattle and rotational cropping holding,...
Columbans help families struggling amid pandemic in Peru

Columbans help families struggling amid pandemic in Peru

An update from Fr Ed O’Connell about the Columban outreach to families trying to survive the Covid-19 crisis in Peru.   The total number of cases of coronavirus on the 18 April was 1,704,757 (51.6% in Lima Department and Province of Callao) and 57,230 deaths (49.3% in...
Korean Prayer for Reunification

Korean Prayer for Reunification

“You have the wrong number. This is the North Korean embassy.” It was sometime in 1999 when I did my First Missionary Assignment (FMA) in Peru, recalls Fr Thomas Seungwon Nam, a South Korean Columban missionary. I had to renew my passport. For the first time in my...