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As We Forgive: Redemption and Reconciliation
New Year celebrations were in full swing in Namoto village in western Fiji. It was after midnight, but loud music was blaring from the radios and groups of people were noisily drinking alcohol. Samu, a...
View ArticleEcumenical Evangelization at Naleba
Voices Raised in Song Cross Barriers “We didn’t realize that they were this good.” “We will have to invite them back here again so that more people can be informed and attend.” These were some of the...
View ArticleYou Can Help Fiji Recover From the Devastating Flood
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DEVOTION TO THE CROSS IN FIJI
Recently we had the Suva parishes’ Lenten Cross visit and sleep at home in our Formation House carried by about 100 people as part of the city’s preparation for Easter. Carrying of statues, monstrance,...
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Ongoing Relief for Fiji…
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Update from Fiji
The bishop of Tonga, retiring and incoming Archbishops of Suva and Bishop John Dew of Wellington The church and nation of Fiji literally came to a standstill on Saturday, June 8, 2013, for the...
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A Leap Year Marriage
Catechists are the corner stone of the Catholic Church in Fiji. Semi Sasai, head catechist in Navala village, epitomizes the generous voluntary service that catechists give to their people and to their...
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I Was Invited
Ratu Meli Lewaravu lives in Fiji Born in 1963, I am from a chiefly family in the highlands, up from Ba, Fiji. My father and grandfather were chiefs, my elder brother is presently the chief, and I am...
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Archbishop Petero Mataca, R.I.P.
Fr. Petero Mataca and Fr. Charles Duster Word was received of the death of Archbishop Petero Mataca, 81, the Archbishop Emeritus of Fiji on June 30th in the capital city, Suva after an extended...
View ArticleDiaconate Ordination Reflection
Among the mysteries in life for me is God’s call for me to be one of His priests. It is something I struggle with because who am I to be called by Him? It is also a gift I am very grateful for, because...
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Celebrating Dharm Samellan
A tradition, started by Columban missionaries, and much enjoyed by all the races of Fiji, called the “Dharm Samellan” (meaning simply in Hindi, “religious gathering”) lives on among the diaspora in...
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A Missionary Goes Home
The concept of home is a curious one. Is home a place or is it a feeling? Is it both? For many of us the word home may bring to mind a welcoming image of comfort and warmth. Perhaps a vision of the...
View ArticleFiji Update
2/23/16 – From Columban Fr. Donal McIlraith, the director of the Columbans in Fiji: Terrible cyclone, 30 dead and counting, whole villages destroyed. The intensely Catholic village of Nacamaki is where...
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Day and Night of Terror – Tropical Cyclone Winston
Columban Fr. John McEvoy, 2/25/16. Never before did I find it so hard to write a few lines about a given situation or to send on some photos. The nation is numb, shell-shocked and overwhelmed, so are...
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A KILLER HURRICANE
A KILLER HURRICANE November until April is known as the hurricane season in Fiji. People here expect to be tested by a hurricane, or tropical cyclone, every two or three years. I arrived in Fiji in...
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PLEASE HELP THE VICTIMS OF CYCLONE WINSTON IN FIJI
Cyclone Winston, a force 5 cyclone devastated much of the Fiji Islands on February 20, 2016. Of the less than one million inhabitants 62,000 people are still in evacuation centers nationwide and up to...
View ArticleLearning to Be a Missionary
Living and Learning in Fiji My name is Nilton Iman, and I am a priest of the Diocese of Chimbote, a land blessed with the blood of the first martyrs of my country, Peru. These past months, I was...
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On Accepting and Being Accepted
On Mission in a Parish in Lahore, Pakistan In 2007 my father talked to me about the possibility of going overseas as a lay missionary. When I began to attend, with 20 others, the orientation program in...
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A Short-Term Mission Experience in the Pacific
Patrick O’Dwyer (right) in Fiji.Fiji for me will always be one of the most wonderful places in the world. I never expected to end up in Fiji, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean surrounded only by a...
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