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Past Magazine Stories
Below are stories from past issues of Columban Mission magazine. The Columban Fathers publish Columban Mission magazine eight times a year. Subscriptions are available for just $15 per year. Sign up to receive our next issue. Read more about Columban Mission magazine.
December 2016
December 2016
There is something about life on an island. The past number of years I’ve been blessed to spend three weeks on an island called Negros Oriental.
December 2016
On the night of December 16, 2011, a sendong or typhoon struck the northern coast of Mindanao, the main southern island of the Philippines.
December 2016
The tall elderly man leaning slightly on his cane, stands out among the people of the Andes.
December 2016
Aside from my parish involvement, one of the most memorable experiences that I had in Peru was my ministry in Manuel Duato, a special institution which provides basic…
November 2016
It would be a disservice to truth for me not to acknowledge that there have been and are serious challenges for religious and civil society in China from sections of the…
November 2016
St. Columban, a great Irish missionary monk, died in 615 A.D. in Bobbio, Italy. Columban missionaries (who have St.
November 2016
Going on mission to Hong Kong in 1976 was both an exciting adventure and a shock to the system.
November 2016
On a September morning in 2014, I arrived in Iquique in northern Chile on a flight from Santiago.
November 2016
I just came from town for a visit with an Indian family and sat down on the very comfortable chair in the mission house.
November 2016
A few years ago my priest companion in the Columban international seminary in Chicago, Fr. Leo Distor, and I were invited to join a pilgrimage in the footsteps of St.
November 2016
The Paris Foreign Mission Society handed over pastoral responsibility for Jeju Island to the Columban Fathers in 1933.