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International Day of Forests
Mar 21, 2025
The 2025 theme for International Day of Forests is “Forests and Food,” highlighting the critical role of forests in food supply and security.
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Harmony Day 2025
Mar 21, 2025
Harmony week is full of festivities with school assemblies, national costume days, morning teas, concerts, and fairs across schools, businesses, community groups, and federal, state, and local government agencies.
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Why does this Christian priest fast during Ramadan?
Mar 20, 2025
In an interview with SBS Urdu, Rev. Dr. Patrick McInerney shares his experiences and reasons for fasting during Ramadan and celebrating Eid al-Fitr with Muslims.
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Roots and wells
Mar 14, 2025
My child’s heart knew that these names and places told a deep story of another time and people I did not know… If we continue to live with broken relationships with the earth, we lose those memories and future generations of all life will not be able to create new memories.
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Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue - Ramadan Message 2025
Mar 12, 2025
The Vatican's message underscores that both Ramadan and Lent are times of inner transformation, where believers are invited to deepen their faith and refocus on their spiritual lives. For Muslims, fasting during Ramadan is a way to control desires and cultivate piety, while for Christians, Lent is a…
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A Reflection on International Women’s Day - March 8, 2025
Mar 08, 2025
Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasises the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality. It calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres.
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Columbans sign Joint Interfaith Statement on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Mar 05, 2025
In the Columban Region of Oceania, we have experienced environmental damage and dislocation of local people because of nuclear testing in Maralinga in South Australia and Mururoa in the Pacific.
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What about Lent?
Mar 05, 2025
Lent places before us that Easter is coming, the time of celebrating our salvation from sin through God’s love shown in the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus.
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Celebrating World Wildlife Day - March 3, 2025
Mar 03, 2025
On this World Wildlife Day, the prophetic Columban mission work on Biodiversity will be celebrated.
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Strawberry Fields Forever
Feb 28, 2025
I remember my dad holding my hand in his as he showed me how to plant a seed and the seed showed me how life is transformed by loving conditions
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We All Have a Vocation, Including the Earth
Feb 14, 2025
I draw on these memories because they help me feel a closeness to Jesus as I wonder how he discovered and discerned his vocation.
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2025 International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking - Feast of Josephine Bakhita
Feb 08, 2025
In the spirit of this Jubilee year, we are called to be pilgrims of hope in the midst of human agendas that revolt against God’s love and justice
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Mater welcomes visitors from ‘flourishing’ Catholic hospital in Pakistan
Feb 03, 2025
Mater is building ties with a Catholic hospital serving some of the most impoverished communities in Pakistan.
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2025 International Day of Education: AI and Education
Jan 24, 2025
Columban Fathers aim to safeguard the dignity of the children and teachers by ensuring that artificial intelligence will complement rather than replace the human process of learning, understanding, and application in their schools.
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2025 World Day of Prayer for Peace: Forgiveness & Freedom
Jan 01, 2025
May 2025 be a year where the peace of our God perseveres and flourishes in places where war, hostility, and injustice persist. May we strive for peace in the way that we challenge existing structures of sin that perpetuate systems of oppression upon humanity and creation
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Columban Fr Tony Cox takes the helm at Stella Maris Australia
Dec 23, 2024
Columban Fr Tony Cox is appointed new National Director of Stella Maris Australia. We wish him well on his new appointment.
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Human Rights Day 2024: Rights and Responsibilities
Dec 11, 2024
Human rights also come with human responsibilities to love and care for one another.
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World Aids Day: Breaking the Stigma
Dec 01, 2024
Migrant workers are among the vulnerable populations, often unfamiliar with HIV, with low awareness of its risks, and lacking knowledge about their rights and how to access HIV-related services.
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Protecting the Dignity of Women
Nov 25, 2024
We pray for young men, that they may find good role models, like St Joseph, who nurture respectful relationships and reject the violent and demeaning images of manhood that perpetuate violence in our families and communities.
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World Day of the Poor 2024
Nov 17, 2024
As a Catholic Society, the plight of the poor is a Columban priority under the Biodiversity Protection and Restoration Mission for Economic Disparity and Climate Change.
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2025 Columban Art Calendar
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2024 Columban Christmas Appeal
"Give something, however small, to the one in need.
For it is not small to one who has nothing."
St Gregory Nazianzus
Your donation, no matter the size, will address immediate needs and bring hope, love, and the light of Christ into the lives of those in countries where the Columbans work.
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