We are not better or worse than others. We are all good and beautifully created. Just as God intended, with each life carrying stories shaped by our own cultures, faith, families and histories.

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God binds us to God’s self with cords of love. When we sin, that cord is broken. But God does not reject us. God does not abandon us. God reaches out and ties a knot in the cord and restores our relationship. And God does this each time we sin. But each time God does this, some of the cord gets tied up in the knot.

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Religious icons are powerful. They shape our conversations and form our outlook, our worldview.

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Columban student Nhkum Zau Mai gets a glimpse of the needs of internally displaced people.

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In Taiwan, the mission of the Columbans and their collaborators continues to evolve

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As I reflect on those months, I am grateful - not just for the chance to teach, but for the grace of walking with these young “chamos,” who taught me how love, faith and joy persist even in the most challenging of times.

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And what a joyous Christmas season Fr Peter must now be experiencing, not just between the Feast of All Saints and the Feast of the Epiphany, but all year round!

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Let us see the whole picture, where each person plays a necessary part. Let us reconcile the wolves fighting within our hearts - and within our world - and become true instruments of peace.

Yes, digital missionaries resemble real missionaries, but they still have to rely on the “foreign” missionaries, those who physically go to the “ends of the earth” for the stories that can give substance and authenticity to the online messages by which they carry out the call of Jesus to “proclaim the Good News” (Mark 16:15).

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The Columbans have taken on the daily running of Fatima House, while our partner organisations manage other aspects of the project. Over the past nine years, we have welcomed nearly 60 women.

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