Mission in Pakistan

20.07.2010

Fr. Robert McCulloch has worked in Pakistan since 1978.

Apart from his pastoral duties, Robert sits on the administrative board for St Elizabeth’s Hospital, a 100 bed health care facility with a School of Midwifery  in Hyderabad. The School of Midwifery has been instrumental in reducing infant mortality and has given Christian women an opportunity of professional employment.

Fr McCulloch has established an outreach medical program at the hospital to provide vaccinations for infants and children, medical care for their mothers, and diagnosis and care of tuberculosis patients.

Robert has also developed schools in Pakistan that are now attended by more than 550 children. He chairs the Board of Governors for the Centre of Academic Excellence, a project he initiated in 2007 to provide educational, spiritual, moral and personal formation for 100 Catholic boys.

Fr McCulloch’s is currently working on setting up a Palliative Care Unit. It will be the first home based Palliative Care unit for the terminally ill in Pakistan.

Fr Robert McCulloch lectures at the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi, Pakistan in Liturgy and Church History.

See below for information on four of the projects

St Elizabeth School of Midwifery Hyderbad, Pakistan

70 young women from less developed areas and from marginalized communities are currently training in St. Elizabeth School of Midwifery to advance their socio-economic position by enabling them to become trained professional and qualified midwives for mother, neonatal, and infant care in Pakistan. (more)

 

 

 

 

The Catholic Centre of Academic Excellence Hyderabad, Pakistan

The goal of the Centre is to provide a sustained environment where academically capable Catholic boys can be assisted to attain high academic grades which will ensure that they can gain university entrance on merit [i.e. totally free on government scholarship basis]. (more)

 

 

 

 

Palliative Care for the terminally ill Hyderbad, Pakistan

An important benefit of this programme is that it will facilitate inter-faith dialogue in a very rich, human, personal level through the caring ministry of committed Christian nurses [male & female] in the homes of people of different faiths, andhopefully through the meeting and mutual support of the religious ministers of the patients. (more)

 

 

 

The Catholic Youth Development Centre Hyderabad, Pakistan

Since 1978 when I arrived in Pakistan, I have seen and been part of the socially upward movement of many Christians through education and employment and their growth in personal confidence and manifest pride in their Catholic faith. Our Catholic young people give great hope for the future of the Church in Pakistan. (more)