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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.

 

October 2016

Each Monday at 7:00 p.m. in Seoul, Korea, believers come to celebrate the Eucharist in Kwang Hwa Mun Plaza in the center of Seoul.

October 2016

It is difficult for us in Myanmar (Burma) to get visas so we have to leave and go to Bangkok, Thailand, frequently to renew our visas.

October 2016

Prison ministry was my personal choice.

October 2016

I have often been asked, “What is the biggest change you have seen since you started working pastorally with people affected by HIV and AIDS?” I have pondered this…

October 2016

My name is Louis Ybanez, and I am a Columban seminarian from the Philippines.

August/September 2016

Since I joined the Columban lay mission program in 2000, I have learned three different languages: English, Filipino (Tagalog) and Spanish.

August/September 2016

Growing up in New York City, summers for me were times for relaxing, recreation and fun.

August/September 2016

Almost six months ago, I arrived in Yangon, Myanmar, to begin my mission assignment.

August/September 2016

From our earliest days, almost a century ago, Columban missionaries have employed people to assist us in a variety of roles to support our mission.

August/September 2016

On my first visit to Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Museum, the obscenity of the atomic bomb left me angry and disturbed.

August/September 2016

Lumen Gentium emphasizes the “universal call to holiness” which applies to all the “people of God”– clergy, religious and lay people, stating that “all…

August/September 2016

Founded by Columban Fr. Bernard Wade in 1939, St.