It started out like any other normal evening meal in the formation house in Fiji when we were informed we will be going to Peru for our FMA (First Mission Assignment).
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June/July 2018
If you are from a very poor family living in a remote village with no electricity, no running water and poor transportation, you might feel depressed and feel the world is…
June/July 2018
Losana Ve'ehala of Tonga passed away unexpectedly at the Columban lay missionary house in Suva, Fiji, on Sunday, December 10, 2017. Tongan Fr.
June/July 2018
It was a personal joy for me to attend the ordination of Pat Roland Visanti in Suva on St. Columban's Day 2017.
June/July 2018
Sanjeong Dong in Mokpo was both a parish and also the headquarters of the Columban mission in the southwest province of Chollanamdo in Korea in the 1940s.
June/July 2018
God calls us in unique and different ways. Before I became a Columban lay missionary, I was happy working in my diocese for nine years.
June/July 2018
"When I left Peru to go to the Philippines, I wondered what I'd find there," observed Marisol Rojas, a former Columban Lay Missionary.
June/July 2018
As we celebrate the Columban Mission Society's centennial, Columban lay missionary Haiti Muller refl ects on her journey in the prison ministry where she gets inspiration…
June/July 2018
In mid-January 2018, I spent a few days with our Columban missionaries in the parish of Badin, Pakistan, before attending a meeting of our Columban missionaries living and…
June/July 2018
Pat Visanti was born and raised a Methodist on the island of Rotuma. Rotuma is both an island and a nation.
June/July 2018
Life begins at forty! That's what Fr. Tony Coney was about to discover as his plane touched down in Lima.
June/July 2018
In the old world of European empires the mission of the church traveled with the expansive energy as it did previously in the age of trade routes and great migrations by…