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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.

 

June/July 2017

Pope Francis continually reminds us that the Church is missionary and is called to reach out to the poor, to sinners, to unbelievers and to those who live on the margins…

June/July 2017

My only contact with the Columbans before going to the seminary in Suva, Fiji, was when Columban Fr.

June/July 2017

The Ai Jia Development Center was founded by the Hsinchu Catholic diocese in Taiwan to help and support mentally challenged adult students.

June/July 2017

Audy was a bright-eyed, smiling three-month-old baby who arrived at church for her baptism in the arms of her proud father, Jason.

June/July 2017

My name is Evangelyn Gawason. My friends call me Vangie. I'm a Subanen.

June/July 2017

Sociologists claim that one of the major problems in much of the world is that nowadays people only listen to, read of and converse with people who think the same as them…

June/July 2017

​Veidrala is located on the Northeast of Vitilevu under the province of Nakorotubu in Ra.

June/July 2017

I first encountered Tien in Tokyo. He had traveled there from Australia, while I had come from Ireland.

May 2017

Chile is very far from my native land, with different people, language, culture, climate and food. It is a Catholic country which is very abundant in resources.

May 2017

One of the many gifts and blessings I experience in the United States as I travel during the summer for the church appeals is the universality of the Church and meeting…

May 2017

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second…

May 2017

The Ocean's (Atlantic) Influence Island life is shaped by the ocean.