Who the Society stands with The Kachi Kohli are a tribal people of Sindh, in southern Pakistan, many of them held for generations in bonded labour, with little access to land, schooling, or a voice. Mill Hill missionaries have lived among them, learned their situation, and worked to open a way out that begins, as […]
Who they are today For most of the Society’s history, a Mill Hill missionary set out from Britain, Ireland or the Netherlands. That has changed, and the change is the most hopeful thing about the Society today. Mill Hill now serves in around 19 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, and increasingly the missionaries […]
Why the Society came The Society’s Latin American mission was not an old colonial inheritance but a deliberate, modern choice, made in answer to a Pope’s appeal. The Church across the region was vast and under-served, and the need was for priests willing to live among the poor of the cities and the countryside rather […]
What is happening, and why The crisis has its roots a long way back, in the way the country was divided in the colonial era into a French-speaking majority and an English-speaking minority in the North-West and South-West. For decades the Anglophone regions felt their language, their courts and their schools pushed to the margins […]
One Church, one body It is easy to think of the missions as someone else’s concern, a good cause far away that has little to do with life in a British parish. The Church does not see it that way, and never has. When a mother in northern Cameroon cannot get her child to a […]
