Refugees
Holy Saturday
Mar 21, 2023
A devout Buddhist ensures her Catholic husband receives a final Christian farewell with the hope of being re-united with him one day.
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Fr Frank Hoare - Golden Jubilee
Mar 21, 2023
A Columban whose wisdom and foresight I called on many times during my time as Director and later Columban leader in Fiji.
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Meet ‘Grandmother’ Nishi
Mar 21, 2023
Her prayer was so simple, so genuine. To say a simple ‘thank you’ as a prayer to Jesus on the Cross was a moment of revelation for me. That simple word of gratitude, said today, spans 2000 years, and brings us to the foot of the Cross itself.
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Explosions of grace
Mar 21, 2023
On Holy Thursday, we had the First Holy Communion group of 21 students, as it was the ideal day to receive the sacrament, remembering that Jesus broke the bread of His life for us all on that day.
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Stick-at-ability
Jan 23, 2023
Jesus sets before us the example and so the challenge to face up to difficult and complex challenges; to be truthful, compassionate and just.
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The power of volunteering
Jan 23, 2023
It’s one of my joys to see the young and the elderly working side by side to support each other, exchanging their ideas and experiences while working to take care of nature
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A land of dreams
Dec 14, 2022
However, they continue to live in legal limbo. They are undocumented, and that means that it is very difficult for them to get regular jobs. Instead, they become part of a network of informal work: street vendors, day labourers, washing windshields, selling candy or begging on the streets.
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Journalist missionary returns home to God
Nov 23, 2022
"The dizzy times may be over now. The lengthened days that borrowed hours from the night belong to the past, but a reservoir rich in the humanity of trust in God and faith in neighbour has truly blessed my life."
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Celebrating 60 years of service to God’s mission
Nov 23, 2022
Columban Fr John Hishon celebrates 60 years of service to God's mission
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The joy of accompanying young people in a parish context in Pakistan
Sep 27, 2022
My sense of contentment had to do with being a witness to God’s grace and love present and active in their lives and finding how best to support, affirm and accompany them in their human development and faith formation.
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Mission Sunday - You shall be my witnesses (Acts 1:8)
Sep 27, 2022
Dear brothers and sisters, I continue to dream of a completely missionary Church, and a new era of missionary activity among Christian communities.
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Christmas cards that celebrate kindness
Sep 27, 2022
We thank, most of all, our kind God who, through our habitat, provides us with food, water and shelter as well as the paper and pencils we use for our livelihood.
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Migrant and Refugee Sunday, September 25th, 2022
Sep 27, 2022
In his Message for this year’s 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis speaks to the theme of his Message: ‘Building the future with migrants and refugees’.
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Migrant and Refugee Sunday 2022
Sep 09, 2022
There are challenges to be met, yet also opportunities to be celebrated. “The presence of migrants and refugees represents a great challenge, but at the same time an immense opportunity for the cultural and spiritual growth of everyone”. We also live in gratitude for the gift migrants and refugees are…
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Resettling God’s people
Aug 12, 2022
In a few short years, with its long experience of people leaving the country, Ireland found itself coping with something quite different, people coming to stay. The skylines of its cities and countryside once packed with the crosses of Christian churches began to include the symbols of mosques and temples.
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National Refugee Week 2022
Jun 19, 2022
National Refugee Week this year runs from Sunday June 19 to Saturday June 25, with World Refugee Day on June 20.
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Adelaide to Santiago - Sharing mission experiences across the Pacific
Jun 07, 2022
Fr Dan began the webinar, presenting the context of mission in Chile and following Pope Francis, the importance of the Church going out, listening, relating to the broader society, and being a Field Hospital for the broken and poor.
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An unnoticed displacement crisis
Mar 08, 2022
During October 2021, several Venezuelan women living in Casa Betania, a House of Hospitality for female migrants in the Columban parish of San Columbano, in Santiago, Chile, offered to tell their stories. Their identities have been changed. The parish also operates a House of Hospitality for men.
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Ending indefinite and arbitrary immigration detention for asylum seekers
Feb 18, 2022
St Columbans Mission Society endorses the statement from Catholic Religious Australia urging the Prime Minister to make changes to the Government’s system of immigration detention for asylum seekers.
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Demonising the victim no solution to crisis
Jan 14, 2022
Economic migration tells us the movement of people reflects the movement of wealth and investment. Debt strangles development and while it is a major obstacle to progress, the flow of wealth out of developing nations to centres of finance and tax havens is an even greater scandal.
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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.
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