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Past Magazine Stories

Below are stories from past issues of Columban Mission magazine. The Columban Fathers publish Columban Mission magazine eight times a year. Subscriptions are available for just $15 per year. Sign up to receive our next issue. Read more about Columban Mission magazine.

 

March/April 2017

It was about three in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

March/April 2017

When I was sixteen years old, my father was diagnosed with cancer and died ten weeks later.

March/April 2017

Now that I'm home, I realized I do not have a room to call my own. My room is the bag I carry on my back every time I move from one mission to another.

March/April 2017

I started to write these two poems last year during a workshop training on poetry writing in my ministry with asylum seekers.

March/April 2017

"What do you know about Ireland?" I asked the third grade class that was excited to have just learnt that I was from there. "St.

March/April 2017

In my early days as a missionary in Fiji, I worked mainly among the Hindu Indo-Fijians around the town of Labasa.

March/April 2017

In the history of human life suffering is what every person will encounter in their lifetime.

March/April 2017

Ethnic Indian people are traditionally obsessed with matters of pollution and purity. Purity is a central value in the culture. The caste system in India is based on this…

February 2017

The Columban missionaries began their work in Peru in 1951 and continue working throughout the country today.

February 2017

Cricket is played everywhere in Pakistan. On streets, in parks and wherever there is an area big enough for the game. People of all classes and faiths play it.

February 2017

When I instructed catechumens in Japan, I spent the first year dealing with ordinary catechetical matters. After Baptism we studied St. Luke's Gospel and Acts.