Irish missionaries including Columbans helped 1.1 million

Irish missionaries including Columbans helped 1.1 million

New figures from Misean Cara show Irish missionary organisations, including the Columbans, reached almost 1.13 million people across the Global South in 2025. Misean Cara is the NGO that represents 77 missionary groups working in 40 countries around the world. In its...
Warmi Huasi: Working on Behalf of Peru’s Children

Warmi Huasi: Working on Behalf of Peru’s Children

Warmi Huasi is quechua for “Women’s House” and is the name chosen for a small Civil Association founded in 2003 by Columbans Missionaries Fathers Ed O’Connell, John Hegerty and Bernie Lane and three lay professionals. By 2018 Warmi Huasi had become well established,...

Happy Christmas from Warmi Huasi!

A Christmas greeting to all Fr Ed O’Connell’s friends and supporters of the Warmi Huasi project in Peru. This video shows aspects of the work in Ayacucho through the reading clubs in remote rural primary schools, the children’s radio programme on children’s...
The Common Good

The Common Good

Fr Ed O’Connell considers why so many voters in different parts of the world today feel such apathy and argues that we must all discern how to play an active part in society. It certainly has become a small world! I was talking recently, on Zoom, with young adults...
Warmi Huasi Marks 20 Years of Service to Peru’s Youth

Warmi Huasi Marks 20 Years of Service to Peru’s Youth

Warmi Huasi, the NGO founded by Columban missionaries in Peru, has published its annual report highlighting its work for 2023 and marking 20 years of service to vulnerable Peruvian children and adolescents. This project empowered communities North of Lima in the...