Editorial - Time and distance are safe
That Jesus could eat and drink with sinners was intolerable to the Pharisees. What further inflamed them was his opposition to them, righteous…
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Lost for Over 12 Months
Some weeks ago two priests of St Columban’s dragged weary feet up to the Catholic church in Kunming, south-western China, finishing a trek that…
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How our six priests died in the Philippines
The five priests killed at Malate have been called the Malate Martyrs. Missionaries who stay with their people during war run the risk of being…
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Another diamond for Columbans
Fr Leo Baker was born on January 6, 1923 at Cobden in rural Gippsland, Victoria. He was the first in a family of 8, five boys and three girls.…
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A difficult ministry made worthwhile
Sainiana (Sai) Tamatawale is a young woman, a Fijian lay missionary from Tamavua parish in Suva. Lusio Navelinikoro is also a lay missionary,…
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Reflection - Spare a thought!
China has been in our thoughts and prayers for a couple of reasons of late. Pope Benedict XVI made the recent feast of Our Lady Help of Christians…
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New lives for prisoners
It was the prisoners themselves who came up with the idea: they wanted to start workshops to occupy their time and help themselves and their…
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The disaster in Myanmar
Catholic Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon is using diocesan funds to buy and distribute food and supplies to the stricken. In Buddhist-majority…
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Dark paradise
Columban missionaries lend a helping hand on Easter Island, one of the most isolated and enigmatic territories on the planet.
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Mission World
Seoul (UCAN) - Although the number of priests and seminarians in South Korea increased from 2006 to 2007, Church officials say steady efforts…
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From the Director Our God – a vulnerable lover?
I have a Leunig cartoon on my office wall in which a man meets God in the person of the wounded Samaritan lying on the side of the road. God…
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‘Vosa Vakaviti’ the Fijian language
Word’ is translated into the Fijian language as ‘Vosa’, ‘Vosa Vakaviti’ means ‘the Fijian language.’ The Columban Fathers thought words were…
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Pedaling to success
In the June 2006, April 2007 and October 2007 issues of The Far East we wrote about the Pedaling to Live Project and how it changed the lives…
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A special day of prayer
The Marian shrine to Our Lady Help of Christians at Sheshan is on the only hill in a plain on the outskirts of Shanghai, China. It’s the premier…
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An honest man
I was spending time at the Hyderabad railway station waiting for the Jinnah Express due in at midnight, Pakistani time, to travel north to Lahore…
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