A GLOBAL awareness campaign featuring the faces and voices of missionaries from more than 50 countries has been launched.

LIKE many countries in the continent of Oceania, Papua New Guinea is not immune to environmental crises both natural and man-made.

WITH the Pope due to attend the COP 26 Conference in Glasgow, it’s perhaps fitting that Missio Scotland’s focus this year falls on Oceania.

Chris Furmage a seminarian for Motherwell Diocese in Rome, is acutely aware of the importance of family.

IT IS slightly over a year now since the worldwide break out of Coronavirus. In Kenya, President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta locked down the country after the first case was announced on March 17, 2020. It took Kenyans a few weeks to digest the situation, overcome the panic and soon afterwards ridicule the government. The young people took to Tik Tok with the challenge, ‘Do you know somebody, who knows somebody, who knows somebody, who knows somebody who has Covid-19?’ It is a ster

Fr. Vincent Lockhart, the national director of Missio Scotland, has published another post on his blog entitled The attempted assassination of mystery which looks at how mystery plays an important part of our life of faith and our mission as Christians. He writes about the connection of truth and love, the Passion and Death of Jesus and the Resurrection. You can read the blog by clicking on the National Director's Blog link on our homepage or by clicking on this link: http://

Fr John Doran MHM, speaks with Missio Scotland’s Communications Officer, Gerard Gough, about his time in the Falkland Islands

Claverian Sister, Sr Stella Niwagira—who spent some time in Bellshill with her fellow sisters and who has hosted two missionary trips from Scotland—gives us an insight into how people in her native Uganda have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. WHEN we first heard about the Covid-19 pandemic, we just thought of it as something that wouldn’t directly affect us here in Uganda. It was thought of more as a strange flu—albeit deadly—that was affecting China. However, we soon

Mill Hill Missionary, Fr John Doran, speaks with Missio Scotland’s Communications Officer, Gerard Gough, about his time in South Africa.

Fr Vincent Lockhart, National Director of Missio Scotland “SUM up Africa for me. What image would you give that would tell me what Africa is all about?”. That is what a friend once asked me one warm night sitting with a beer out in my back garden. So many images came to mind. Children everywhere, hundreds of them. Joyful, boisterous, innocent, mischievous, always together, noisy. Old men sitting at their front door, sleeping in the sun, dreaming of their youth. Puffed-up civi