Worldwide Missions
Columban Missionaries currently work both in the UK and around the world.
In the UK
In Britain we are a group of Columban Priests and Columban Lay Missionaries. We are called to be a missionary presence here.
For a full picture of our work at home see our Mission in Britain page.
UK locations
Glasgow, London, Birmingham, Manchester
Around the world
At present the Columban Missionaries work in fifteen countries around the world. Our present understanding of Columban mission is well expressed in the following statement of the 1994 Columban General Assembly.
“Generous response in faith to God’s call is at the heart of our missionary charism, which urges us to continually go out and move on. In fidelity to our founders’ vision and our ongoing experience of God’s call, we cross boundaries of country, culture and religion to discover the living God and announce the Good News of God’s reign. We do this as disciples of Jesus, through witness and dialogue from the standpoint of solidarity with the poor and the exploited earth. Our reaching out in mission involves our own evangelization and transformation by the poor. We feel called to go to peoples, groups and social-cultural contexts in which Christ and his Gospel are not known, or which lack Christian communities sufficiently mature to be able to incarnate the faith in their own environment and proclaim it to other groups. As an international, multicultural Society we forge links between local churches in the service of mission. We strive to develop the missionary dimension of each local church in which we work and commit ourselves to partnership with others who also hear the missionary call.”
Columban mission is to Asia, Latin America, the Pacific and Europe. We work in mainly poor countries and in the poorer areas of those countries.
World wide locations
Peru, Chile, Philippines, Pakistan, Korea, Fiji, Japan, Taiwan, China, Burma, Ireland, Britain, USA, Australia, Central Administration, New Zealand, Mexico