- Ruan Magan's film follows the lives of three missionaries who carry out their work in some of the most remote and dangerous areas of the planet.
- Ruan Magan's film follows the lives of three missionaries who carry out their work in some of the most remote and dangerous areas of the planet.Three Irish missionaries are followed over three months. They live and work in some of the most challenging environments in the world. Filmed in Papua New Guinea, the Amazon Basin and South Sudan in 2012, the film finds that such sacrifice may be about more than religion; it is an essential facet of the human condition.
In trying to figure out what motivates them personally to keep going, LIFERS discovers an unexpected truth of human nature. Each of the missionaries says the same thing: the more they work and give to other people, the more they get back in return. What apparently drives them to sacrifice their lives so completely is the pursuit of happiness.
The three missionaries featured are:
Fr. John Glynn, a priest who runs the We Care Foundation in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, one of the world's most dangerous cities. John, originally from County Clare, has spent 5 decades working in Papua New Guinea.
Sr. Pat Murray, a Loreto sister who worked in education in Ireland and is now the executive in charge of Solidarity with South Sudan, an organization that is pooling the resources of 200 missionary orders towards the basic development needs of South Sudan, which is the newest country in the world.
Fr. Pat Brennan, a Divine Word Missionary who has lived in Brazil for more than 3 decades and who fights for the human rights of indigenous Indians living in the Amazonian rain forest.
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