China
The Real Heroes
Migrants Build Modern China I walked along the lane leading to the Beijing Diocesan seminary with one of the priests one day last week. “That wasn’t there when I came here last,” I said referring to the three hillocks of …
Categories: China, Magazine Archive, November 2011
The Power of Memory
The Struggle Against Oppression “With a new generation in Hong Kong which had not been born at the time of Tiananmen, we need to do a few things differently,” Peggy Siu, the convener of a youthstyle, drop-in-and-out and get a …
Categories: China, October 2011
Mission Exposure Team Leaves for China
Five local Catholics flew out of the El Paso, Texas, airport this evening, bound for China. “We ask for your prayers,” wrote one of the five, Eina L. Holder, shortly before boarding, “as we walk in the footsteps of the …
Categories: China, Juarez / El Paso
Becoming More Missionary
My main contribution to our mission in China is facilitating overseas study for priests, Sisters and laity from both the underground and the patriotic Catholic Church. I feel that in my present role in China I am more a missionary …
Categories: China, Front Feature, June-July 2011, Magazine Archive
China- Columban Mission Exposure Trips
Request Info | Apply Here Discover the roots of Columban history in the original mission country Walk in the footsteps of the first Columban missionaries Experience modern China and meet Columban missionaries Witness the connections between the past, present and …
Categories: China, mission Exposure
Migrant Ministry
William Wilberforce led a campaign against the British international slave trafficking business just a few hundred years ago. About 150 years ago, a vicious civil war was fought in the U.S. over a way of life that had institutionalized the …
Categories: China, Front Feature
Chinese Friends Welcoming Me to Mission
I came to China fourteen years ago, settled into Beijing to learn Mandarin for three years and then came to Shanghai. Mrs. Cecilia Tao Bei Ling, whom I met about 20 years ago in Manila, the Philippines, where she was …
Categories: China, Front Feature
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Initiative and Patience
I am grateful for the opportunity to have met Bishop Peter Zhang, the first Chinese bishop of Hanyang, on a number of occasions in the few years before he died in 2005 at the age of 91. He succeeded Bishop …
Categories: China, Front Feature
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Steady Comeback
In the late 1940s, as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) advanced towards Wuhan, located on the Yangtze River 500 kilometers inland from Shanghai, Columban Bishop Edward Galvin met with the Sisters of Our Lady of Hanyang, a community he had …
Categories: China, Front Feature
The Work of the You Dao Foundation
You Dao was initiated in Shanghai when Columban Fr. Warren Kinne invited a group of friends to discuss the issue of migrant workers over dinner in June 2005. A lawyer at the dinner, Audrey Leung, later initiated a research project …
Categories: China, Front Feature
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Who doesn’t have memories of being called to the table with the love and intimacy that comes with a life shared day-to- day? These also were Jesus’ words to His beloved ones
