The long presence The Society reached Kenya through Uganda, moving eastward in the early years of the last century into the western highlands and around what is now the diocese of Kakamega. It has been there ever since. The work was never the kind that draws attention: small schools where there had been none, simple […]
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 […]
The first hours Morning prayer comes before anything is asked of him, and then Mass, often in a small chapel beside the house, sometimes with a handful of people and sometimes with a church already full. This is the still part of the day. After it, the demands start to arrive, and they rarely stop […]
A school in Pakistan In the Sindh province of Pakistan live the Kachi Kohli people, families who for generations have known little but bonded labour, and whose children have rarely had the chance to learn to read. Fr Rebenie Madar has been working to establish a simple tuition school for them, at Shakirim, so that […]
Where it began The early decades were hard, and there is no point pretending otherwise. The first missionaries buried their own to fever and built what they could by hand. They learned the languages slowly, opened small schools and simple clinics, and trained local catechists, men and women who could carry the faith in their […]
Where it began The Society was founded in 1866, in the high noon of the British Empire, and in those years missionary work and imperial expansion often moved in step. The missionaries who went out did so with real conviction and real compassion, but they moved within a world of empire, and the assumptions of […]
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 […]
