New Training Centre at Pedalling Eco farm

New Training Centre at Pedalling Eco farm

Columban missionary Fr Oliver McCrossan and his colleague Virgie Vidad write about the latest developments at the organic farm he set up to help struggling tricycle workers in the Philippines. In 2019, the Pedalling Eco farm became a community garden for the tricycle...
How can we celebrate life when our planet is dying?

How can we celebrate life when our planet is dying?

This is a short excerpt from Afri’s upcoming Food Sovereignty documentary which includes footage from six different countries around the world. Bobby Pagusara, who works for Agro-Eco, talks about the organic growing movement in the Philippines and highlights the...
Lay Missionary Chang Eun-Yeal Columba retires after 30 years

Lay Missionary Chang Eun-Yeal Columba retires after 30 years

In 1990, Chang Eun-Yeal Columba was a member of the first lay mission team of the Missionary Society of St Columban’s Korean region appointed to the Philippines. She worked there for 18 years. She also served as a member of the lay missionary’s central leadership team...
Meet a Columban: Fr Dominic Nolan

Meet a Columban: Fr Dominic Nolan

In this episode of ‘Meet a Columban’, Fr Jim Mulroney speaks to Fr Dominic Nolan SSC, who has spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines working in parish ministry, ecology work and on bible study programmes. In the 1980s, he became involved in CELL, a...
How Life Has Changed

How Life Has Changed

I had just arrived in the Philippines shortly after ordination. It was 1973 and something unprecedented was happening back home in Ireland. Limerick had made it to the All-Ireland hurling final! Desperate to find out news of how the match went I got my shortwave...