Climate Change

  Mission to “The Shire”

Mar 21, 2023
Teresa is of the same mind. A kind-hearted and cheerful young woman, she brims over with enthusiasm as she describes the “joy, excitement I get through serving and supporting people in need”.
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  Emmaus Centres for the disabled during Covid

Mar 21, 2023
Apart from these Centres for daytime clients, Emmaus operates residential services for 60 people in fifteen group homes.
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  Meet two of my Missionary friends

Mar 21, 2023
They invited me and a Mercy Sister, Millie McNamara, to join them in founding the Association for People with Special Abilities – ASPHAD. It was for those disadvantaged people aged 18 years of age or more. We bought a family home with one storey finished.
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  A Columban priest murdered for saving Filipinos

Jan 23, 2023
We had both received threats for supporting the rights of the poor and opposing the evildoers. That is the lot of a missionary.
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  The beginnings of Warmi Huasi

Jan 23, 2023
Warmi Huasi began as a pastoral outreach program of the parish of Our Lady of the Missions, a Columban parish on the northern side of Lima, where I was the parish priest.
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  Reflection - Return to Myanmar

Jan 23, 2023
Life's journey has been a blessing for me in communities of both Christians and non-Christians, all seeking peace through justice.
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  Biodiversity: Our ocean - our land - our life

Dec 06, 2022
In this video, Columban JPIC coordinator, Tevita Naikasowalu, demonstrates the impact of biodiversity in Fiji and the affect it is having on the ocean and the land. He speaks of the responsibility that the Oceanian people have in order to protect where they live.
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  COP27 must confront the global climate crisis

Nov 08, 2022
COP27 will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022. Will it confront the current global climate crisis?
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  Columban Biodiversity Podcast Season Two - Episode 12

Oct 07, 2022
St Columbans Mission Society has been marking the Season of Creation (September 1st – October 4th), with the launch of the second season of the Columban Biodiversity podcast, Jubilee for the Earth: Biodiversity and Our Sacred Story. The final episode of Biodiversity podcast Season Two, episode twelve…
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  Columban Biodiversity Podcast Season Two - Episode 11

Sep 30, 2022
St Columbans Mission Society is marking the Season of Creation (September 1st – October 4th), with the launch of the second season of the Columban Biodiversity podcast, Jubilee for the Earth: Biodiversity and Our Sacred Story... 
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  Columban Biodiversity Podcast Season Two - Episode 10

Sep 26, 2022
St Columbans Mission Society is marking the Season of Creation (September 1st – October 4th), with the launch of the second season of the Columban Biodiversity podcast, Jubilee for the Earth: Biodiversity and Our Sacred Story... 
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  Columban Biodiversity Podcast Season Two – Episode 9 - ‘Earth’s Twin Crises: Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change’

Sep 21, 2022
Every day, scientists are learning more and more about how climate change accelerates biodiversity loss, and about how biodiversity loss worsens climate change. Their work has made it clear that we need to solve both crises together.
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  Biodiversity Loss + Indigenous Peoples

Sep 13, 2022
If the global community wants to better care for creation, we have to first listen to the wisdom of Indigenous traditions and centre their experience and expertise in the conversation about solutions.
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  Mammoth monsoon misery in Pakistan

Sep 09, 2022
A tragedy was reported to us by a comrade, Dani Baksh, who lives in a neighbouring town, that 17 men were out fishing one morning recently in the Arabian Sea waters, and a bolt of lightning struck their boat resulting in the death of all on board. Their families and friends are deeply saddened and distressed…
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  Everything is Holy: Biodiversity loss + Spirituality

Sep 06, 2022
Does nature have intrinsic value? Does God love plants, animals, and ecosystems as much as God loves humans? Does the promise of new life extend to all God’s creatures?
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  Pakistan: Eyewitness report on devastating monsoon season

Sep 01, 2022
In the Columban-run parish of Badin, about 100 km SE of Hyderabad, in the Sindh province, the danger from the floods has been substantial. The parish is home to people of the Parkari Kholi and Sindhi Bheel tribal groups and the Punjabi community. Columban Fr Pat Visanti, after doing an initial survey,…
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  Season of Creation school competition

Sep 01, 2022
In this issue of the Peace, Ecology and Justice e-Bulletin we share with you a collection of the pieces of writing and drawings submitted by our secondary and primary school students.
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  From trail of tears to path of healing

Sep 01, 2022
The water became a conduit between the original Cherokee of this place and myself. This sacred water was mediating a kind of reconciliation with no formal record or recognition but simply the inner authority that comes from the divine presence of a God-encounter in the water, the rocks, the mountains,…
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  “Hkrit Maling” - the Forbidden Forests

Sep 01, 2022
Driven only by profit, these companies will exhaust all of Myanmar's natural resources, even encroaching into the country's protected areas. This will not only lead the country down the path of greater poverty but will also increase environmental disasters.
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  World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

Aug 31, 2022
Whilst climate change and biodiversity loss adversely affect everyone, peoples who are economically poor and experience systemic marginalization are most impacted. Columban missionaries recognize these injustices in their daily lives and ministries worldwide.
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2023 Columban Mid-Year Appeal

Support the Columban Mid-Year Appeal so that we can maintain our migrant apostolates, our parishes, and other forms of ministry across the many countries we work in. It is always a delight to help people in real need.


2023 Columban Art Calendar

Code : 165

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The Columban Art Calendar is an iconic Catholic Calendar, well-known for its traditional religious paintings and liturgical information and is a major fundraiser for Columban Missionaries. 2023 marks the 101st edition.

Calendar Dimensions: 220mm (W) x 320mm (H)

1 Calendar $10.00 Special Offer: Buy more than one Calendar and pay $8.00 for each additional one. Price excl P&H

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