Monthly Archives: December 2017
DR Congo: Meeting taking place among member organisations, Pax Christi International staff on Great Lakes regional network
Pax Christi member organisation from the Great Lakes region of Africa (Goma, Butare, Bujumbura, Kisangani, Uvira, Kananga, Kikwit, Kinshasa, Kisangani and Bukavu) are meeting this week in Kisangani to continue to look at the future development of the Pax Christi Great Lakes regional network. This is the second gathering this year to move the process of regionalisation forward. Continue reading
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for The 2018 World Day Of Vocations
Dear Brothers and Sisters, next October, the Fifteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will meet to discuss the theme of young people and in particular the relationship between young people, faith and vocation. There we will have a chance to consider more deeply how, at the centre of our life, is the call to joy that God addresses to us and how this is “God’s plan for men and women in every age
Superior General Fr Kevin O’Neill opens the Columban Centenary Celebrations with this message on the feast day of St Columban.
It is with much joy and heartfelt gratitude that I, on behalf of Columban missionaries and coworkers invite you, our benefactors, your families and friends, and the people among whom we live and serve, to join us in our Centenary Year celebrations which commences this year on the 23rd November, on the Feast of St Columban.
The theme for our Centenary is ‘Sharing gospel joy’.