May/June 2022
Marking 70 years of Columban mission in Fiji, Fr. Frank Hoare highlights how young Pacifi can Columbans are now taking up the missionary flame.
ViewThe ‘Far East’ provides insight into the mission work of Columbans around the world and gives readers a deeper awareness of our shared call through baptism to be God’s missionaries. The ‘Far East’ will help you better understand other cultures and religions and the effects global economics and environmental degradation have on poor and marginalised communities around the world.
Often the stories are tragic tales of our failed human condition; the poverty, exploitation and inhumanity that mars our earthly existence. Yet, in the midst of despair, Columban missionaries live in solidarity with ordinary people and, together, they move forward to improve their social, economic and spiritual lives, always with Jesus Christ as their guide.
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Marking 70 years of Columban mission in Fiji, Fr. Frank Hoare highlights how young Pacifi can Columbans are now taking up the missionary flame.
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