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Immigrant Spouses Journeying Towards Empowerment

The presence of immigrant spouses in Korea, together with the even larger population of immigrant laborers, has challenged the long-held…

Children in Jail

We entered the so-called Bahay Pagasa, ??House of Hope.? It turned out to be a children's jail.

Light in the Darkest Places

I have just completed 40 years in Chile and for 25 of these I have been going to the oldest jail

Twenty Years

More than 20 years ago, I left the Philippines for the first time as a Columban lay missionary as

A Belief Challenged

I arrived in Pakistan in 1994 after joining the Columban lay missionary orientation program which

Life Is a Mission

I am Irma Lara Cantago, a Columban lay missionary for many years. A high school teacher by profession, I was teaching for 15 years and at the same…

The Emmaus Story

"Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?" (Lk 24:32)

My Home Is Your Home

I have been renting a room from a Fijian family in Kinoya for the last few months while I continu

Reflections on the Journey

As a Columban lay missionary, I have been working and living in a community in Puente Alto near S

Home-Based Palliative Nursing at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Hyderabad, Pakistan

In Pakistan, terminally-ill patients are treated as sources of income by the medical profession a