Being a missionary in the Central African Republic means witnessing to the forgiveness and mercy of God, says Father Yovane Cox. Cox says sectarian violence in the Republic urgently calls for “showing mercy” and to “being ready to forgive, to help people to overcome terrible things such as death of a loved one or the Read more
Posts Tagged ‘missionary’
The life of the last Irish missionary nun in Japan
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
In 2010, Sister Paschal (Jennie) O’Sullivan returned home to Ireland at the age of 98 after 75 years of missionary work in Japan, which including teaching English at one of the Japan’s most prestigious girls’ schools, Denenchofu Futaba in Tokyo. Among her past pupils is Japan’s Crown Princess Masako. Following Sister Paschal’s 100th birthday, her Read more
Missionary priest believed to have hanged himself in Ghana
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015A German priest with the Society of African Missionaries has been found hanging from a tree at a spiritual renewal centre in Ghana. Fr Thomas Schwiedessen had been sent to the centre for counselling after reportedly behaving strangely. He had been referred to a psychiatrist and was scheduled for a review. The priest was connected with Read more
“Half Naked” NZer on a mission to unite Samoan churches
Friday, March 13th, 2015
Last Tuesday evening, Grant Holland was going from house to house at Tulaele in Samoa preaching church unity. He was only wearing a light brown pair of shorts, no shirt and carried a stick but no bible. Holland is a New Zealander who is jointly charged with a Ms. Vaioleti Stowers with 12 charges of selling rental Read more
Olympic champion’s coach a missionary Brother
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014In 2012, David Rudisha, a Masai warrior from Kenya, ran what many say was the greatest race in the history of the Olympics. He led the 800m final from the front and smashed his own world record, becoming the first man ever to run under 1.41. In interviews after the race he thanked one man Read more
Evangelii Gaudium – Reasons for a renewed missionary impulse
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014262. Spirit-filled evangelizers are evangelizers who pray and work. Mystical notions without a solid social and missionary outreach are of no help to evangelization, nor are dissertations or social or pastoral practices which lack a spirituality which can change hearts. These unilateral and incomplete proposals only reach a few groups and prove incapable of radiating Read more
Foreign preachers opposed to homosexuality targeting Pacific nations
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
A human rights activist and lawyer says there are signs that churches from outside the Pacific region are starting to focus on the Pacific and to send missionaries or preachers there who are intolerant of homosexuality. Dr Paula Gerber says “The church is a very broad term. There is certainly some religious bodies that are Read more
Last Sound of Music von Trapp dies
Friday, February 28th, 2014Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the singing family immortalised in the Sound of Music, has died, aged 99, in Vermont. Maria, a devout Catholic, had worked as a lay missionary in Papua New Guinea after her musical career was over. Continue reading
From hot to cold: Samoan Missionaries start new church in Alaska
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Pastor Su’e Su’e, his wife Antonina and their children have moved from Samoa to begin a Samoan-language church in Whittier, Alaska. The newly founded church is Malamalama Fou, which translates as “New Light Church.” In August, the first-time pastor and his family moved up to Alaska. “We did everything by faith,” said Su’e, “Everything is Read more
He came to help Catholic Mission and never went home
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Perry Langston trained as an agronomist and went out to the Solomon Islands in the twilight years of Empire to work in a technical capacity for a Catholic mission and he never went home. Perry went to Christmas Island – an isolated coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific – in 1966, just a Read more