Skip to main content

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.

 

May 2017

Fifty years ago I was pastor of an "old Christian" community on Amakusa Island in the far south of Japan. By "old Christian" I mean that a Jesuit missionary, Fr.

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…

March/April 2017

I still have vivid memories of my first awakening in Lima, Peru, on June 24, 1971.

March/April 2017

It was about three in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

February 2017

In the not-too-distant past it was almost impossible to get governments and institutions to discuss immigration and immigrant issues.