Columban Fr Reg Howard celebrates 50 years https://goo.gl/dmcm8p

Columban Fr Vincent (Vinnie) Batchelor died on May 28, 2016, at Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne. He was 95 years of age and in his 72nd year of priesthood. more https://goo.gl/F1wajR

“I am content to be rediscovering New Zealand and working with people from South America and maybe helping them by becoming a bridge for them to the New Zealand culture. It is a new mission in my own country,” he said. https://goo.gl/8jPy2a

Fr Bosco Ah Seng is a priest of the Myitkina Diocese, who works in the Diocesan Pastoral Projects Department. He was ordained on November 23, 2013, the Feast of St Columban. He shares with us the story of the construction of the church. https://goo.gl/w0QwY6

....the widow who sat silent with her heart breaking, and to listen to the young children who prayed for their father. https://goo.gl/zwYl4Q

Pope meets Cairo’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar https://goo.gl/Z8RG4N

During Holy Week 2016, participants spent Holy Week on the US/Mexican Border at El Paso, in Texas, United States, and at the city of Juarez, in the Mexican State of Chihuahua. https://goo.gl/KcnfhI

It is fascinating for me to know the direct living descendants of these two families who featured in the first steps of the Columbans in China. https://goo.gl/Pw52fC

Fr Gerry Neylon shares with The Far East magazine his missionary journey over 43 years in three different Columban missions.

(Narrated by John Doherty)

Louie Ybanez, a Columban seminarian from the Philippines, shares with us the importance of interreligious dialogue in Pakistan. Louie will spend two years in Pakistan as part of his missionary formation before ordination to priesthood. https://goo.gl/XmLnn5