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.
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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.
February 2017
In the not-too-distant past it was almost impossible to get governments and institutions to discuss immigration and immigrant issues.