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Water Privatization in Chile
This week I have been looking into the issue of water privatization in Chile, a country long served by Columban missionaries. Whilst water privatization might on first hearing sound a little dry...
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Peace Lily
The projection or aspiration of peace into another time or place is remiss without its practice in our daily lives. Peace starts in the home. It embarks from our everyday surroundings with those...
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The Struggle Against Water Privatization in Chile
The economy is a tool that needs to be used to serve the needs of all people, not to be served by the people, against people. This was Pope Francis’ message when he spoke on World Environment Day this...
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Pinochet’s Legacy among the Mapuche Indigenous Communities
Columban lay missionary, Monika Lewatikana (front row with cap), with Mapuche community members One group of people who suffered greatly under the Pinochet government was the Mapuche indigenous...
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SOA Watch Action Alert- H.R. 2989
Torture is Immoral- Close the SOA! Catholic social teaching today opposes torture in the treatment of any detained or imprisoned person. For the Church is convinced that every human person bears a...
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Achieving Gender Parity in Education
Luke 13:12:“When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Catholic social teaching encourages us to ‘put the needs of the poor and vulnerable...
View ArticleA Hero in Our Midst
“So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” – Colossians 3:12: I watch CNN heroes devotedly. Often I feel...
View ArticleMining in Latin America
“We have forgotten, and we are still forgetting, that over and above business, logic, and the parameters of the market, [stand] human beings . . . By virtue of their profound dignity, we [ought] to...
View ArticleSeeds of Hope
In 2000, the U.N. General Assembly developed the Millennium Development Goals, one of which was to end extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. One analysis is that there is just not enough food to feed the...
View ArticleADVENT 2013: THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE POOR OF THE EARTH
First Week in Advent “The joy of the Gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.” With these words, Pope Francis penned his first major teaching “on the proclamation of the Gospel in...
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Second Week in Advent In his recent apostolic letter, Pope Francis invites us to an “ever watchful scrutiny of the signs of the times.” “We have to remember that the majority of our contemporaries are...
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Filled with the Spirit of St. Columban
Jane Ngugi I am filled with sadness as I leave my internship with the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, a place I considered my second home. I was received with kindness and mentored with...
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“We love this magnificent planet on which God has put us, and we love the human family which dwells here, with all its tragedies and struggles, its hopes and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses....
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NAFTA Turns 20
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into force twenty years ago this month, became the model for each successive trade agreement. Not limited to trade and tariffs, trade...
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Child Labor and the Global Plight of Children
Today, there are 168 million child laborers worldwide and 85 million of these children continue to work in hazardous conditions, according to the International Labor Organization[1]. These young people...
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Debt Repayments Burden Philippine Relief Efforts
After Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines last November, the world responded with astounding generosity, donating hundreds of millions of dollars to aid in the recovery effort – $51 million from...
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Free Trade and Economic Inequality
“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the...
View ArticleEconomic and Ecological Way of the Cross
For more than nine decades, Columbans have served the poorest of the poor in fifteen different countries, proclaiming the Good News of the Gospel, crossing boundaries of language, culture, and...
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Working for Economic Justice
Hello my name is Jake Fox and I am a History and Political Science double major at Alma College in Michigan. I will be interning this summer for the Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach in...
View ArticleFree Trade Agreements and Migration
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were...
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