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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 2016

The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians is a Sisterhood of Irish and Irish-American, Catholic Women.

June/July 2016

Bishop Jin, the late bishop of Shanghai, who died aged 97 years in 2013, was Agnes Dong’s great-grandmother’s cousin.

June/July 2016

Noh Hyein, better known as Anna (pronounced En-na), a teacher by profession, came to the Philippines in April 2011 with three other Korean women.

May 2016

We rejoice in the great gift of life. But as we grow older this gift is overshadowed by experiences of illness, pain, and loss.

May 2016

It has been nine years since I started working as a personal counsellor in a Boy’s Secondary School in Dublin, Ireland, and also nine years since I started working in The…

May 2016

Shusaku Endo, a Japanese novelist, died in 1996–almost 20 years ago. In Japan he is still featured regularly in television programs, magazine articles and exhibitions.

May 2016

Editor’s Note: On Monday, November, 23, 2015, Columban Fr. YoungIn Kim celebrated the Feast Day of St. Columban in Cuzco, Peru.

May 2016

My first experience of engaging in pastoral ministry in Japan was at a residential center, run by the Daughters of Charity of St.

May 2016

You might call me a slow learner.

May 2016

My name is Nilton Iman, and I am a priest of the Diocese of Chimbote, a land blessed with the blood of the first martyrs of my country, Peru.

May 2016

Fiji for me will always be one of the most wonderful places in the world.

May 2016

Welcome to Peru, Land of the Incas (Land of the Kings). Many would say that you’ve never really been to this resplendent country until you’ve set foot in the majestic and…