Columban Response to Coronavirus

The Coronavirus Pandemic has spread across the world, leaving uncertainty in its wake. Like everyone else, Columban missionaries are adapting to life during this crisis. Below are reflections, prayers and stories of Columban missionaries as they respond to life's challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mother from San Benito, Carabayllo

The total number of cases of coronavirus on the 18th April was 1,704,757 (51.6% in Lima…

The total number of cases of coronavirus in Peru on 9/12/2020 was 722,832 with 50.7% in Lima and…

Columban Fr. George Hogarty

On Holy Thursday Night, April 9, Fr.


English Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish

Taiwan is an island in the southeast of China. The population is about 24 million inhabitants.…

Thanking St. Anthony

Since laborers from the Indian subcontinent started coming to Fiji under the colonial indenture…

Casa de Immigrantes San Columbano

As I write this article,  I am safely sheltered in the U.S. Columban headquarters in Bellevue,…

Fr. Borque celebrates Mass in a home.

As a humanity we thought that we had reached a point of development or a point that we could…

food kitchen

When the Corona pandemic started people thought it was just a passing experience and within a…

Columban Fr. Kwang-Kyu

There are some people who do not believe the existence of the intangible things in the world. In…

Fr. Gonzalo Borquez

How many times has someone climbed a mountain only to find that they are still…

Columban Fr. Michael O'Grady

As the news of the Wuhan virus started if felt like another MIRS or SARS virus outbreak.


Columban Fr. Pat Cunningham

Covid-19 has been the trigger for a dramatic downturn in an already stuttering global economy…