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Help Women Escape Abuse in Chile

Recently Columban Fr. Daniel Harding wrote to us seeking funds for the Casa Betania Livelihood Project to help abused and battered migrant women in Chile. Below please find his request for...

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The COVID-19 virus has resulted in the limiting of attendance or cancellation of public Masses and communal celebrations of the Sacraments. Here are links to daily Mass from St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bellevue, Neb.

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Columban Lay Missionaries Need Your Help

Generous Columban benefactors like you have supported the Columban lay mission program for decades, and for that we and they are eternally grateful. The important work of bringing the Good News of...

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Friends of Earth

My name is Danish Yakoob and I’m from Latifabad, Hyderabad, Pakistan.

   By Danish Yakoob
When in Pakistan for the First Time

It has been nearly a year since I arrived in Pakistan as a lay missionary.

   By Hazel Angwani
Sharing Food

Who would have imagined that I would be cooking food and treating people?

   By Kim Sun-Hee Sunny
St. Nicholas Church, Nagar Parkar

The Parkari Kohlis are one of many tribal peoples in Sindh, Pakistan, who live in an on-going state of...

   By Fr. Tomas King
Subanen Ministries Honor God's Creation

The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral habitat is the highlands of northwestern Mindanao in...

   By Fr. Vincent Busch
Christmas Rush in Fiji

While the rest of the world shops and parties frenetically in December, the people in Fiji busy themselves...

   By Fr. Patrick Colgan

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The Shimmering Promise of Bethlehem

In 2013, after twelve years in administrative assignments with the Columban Fathers, I was given the chance to take a sabbatical. I seized the opportunity and chose to do a six-week course at the Tantur Institute south of Jerusalem.

Near Tantur there was a main bus route and along that road were the ruins of an ancient church. I stopped to look closely at the ruin that I had spotted from the bus window. I was curious about it because it was the same shape (octagonal) as the last church where I had been pastor, Sts. Simon and Jude in Fujisawa, Japan.

I discovered that the site held the remains of a Church built in the byzantine period of history (about 1500 years ago). One very interesting thing was the location. If you were traveling from Nazareth, via Jerusalem to Bethlehem as Mary and Joseph did, this would be the spot...
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Your prayers and gifts are changing the world! Sharing the Gospel calls us to put ourselves at the service of the poor. Columban missionaries feed the hungry, care for the sick, teach the poor and bring the light of Christ to people in Asia, South America and the Pacific rim. Find out how together we can change the world.

One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his good deed. — Proverbs 19:17

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Columban Fr. John Greene delivers groceries

Adapting to the Needs of the People

The Columban Fathers is a great organization. As the role of mission changes around the world, the Columbans continue to adapt to the needs of the people they serve. Continuing to learn about where the Columbans are working via the Columban Mission magazine and talks by Columban priests reinforces our desire to give by making us more aware and appreciative of what the Columbans are doing around the world.
 —  Paul Hartnett

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Columban logoThe Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.

We go in the name of the Church to announce, by deed and word, the Good News of Jesus Christ.

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