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Stories from Columban Missions

Subanen crafters and their families enjoy the festivities
Subanen Crafters Celebrate Christmas

Every year the Subanen crafters and their families hold our annual Christmas reunion. The occasion has its usual games and food. We crown a queen…

A Subanen crafter carries her baby in a sling.
Healing Body and Spirit

The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral homeland is in the mountains of northwest Mindanao, Philippines. Like other indigenous…

Columban Lay Missionaries Vida (left) and Sai
Let Heaven and Nature Sing

Here in Hong Kong, during the final week of Advent, so much of my time and attention is divided between two things: preparing for the Christmas…

Preda kids
Preda Christmas Update

Christmas is really the time to celebrate children’s rights and to renew our commitment and determination to continue taking a stand for them,…

Christmas lights on arbor at Southbank in Brisbane, Australia
Happy Christmas

I like Christmas lights. In many suburbs of Australia where I live there are marvelous displays of Christmas lights. In the northern hemisphere I…

A dove flying among buildings
Peace and Understanding

A bomb went off during the celebration of Mass on the first Sunday of Advent last year in Marawi in the Philippines. Three people were killed and…