COVID-19 has touched us all. This issue of Maryknoll magazine is dedicated to those we’ve lost and to the caregivers and first responders on the front line of this pandemic.
This edition of Maryknoll magazine has also felt the impact of the coronavirus as we have had to reduce our printing and mailing costs immediately. Therefore, this issue is available in electronic format only. Please click the “Download Current Issue” button to get a pdf version of the issue, or explore this website, which has all the content of the print magazine and more.
Focused on Maryknoll missioners around the world working in solidarity among the poor and marginalized. Articles include issues of importance to people the missioners serve and to the Catholic Church.
We’re all in this together. How often have we heard these words during this time when the COVID-19 virus has been ravaging our world! Indeed, the crisis reminds us just how interconnected we are here at home and around the world. We Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are more aware than ever of our...
Maryknoll missioners in various parts of the world share how they and the people they serve are responding to COVID-19 KENYAAt St. Patrick’s Parish and Dispensary in the informal settlement of Bangladesh, in Mombasa, Kenya, where I work as a Maryknoll lay missioner, we are trying to be proactive...
Two Maryknoll seminarians and a Maryknoll brother in Cochabamba, Bolivia, lend a hand in a time of pandemic.We are Maryknoll seminarians doing our overseas training program in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Our missionary training went into high gear in March as Bolivia confirmed more and more cases of the...
Maryknoll priests work to feed those left without food in COVID-19 lockdowns For many countries in Africa, the steps to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic are exacerbating already dire circumstances, and warnings are mounting of a double tragedy: disease and starvation. Even as coronavirus...
Maryknoll sister’s ministry provides compassionate accompaniment to elderly residents in PanamaThe New Life Foundation in Panama is living up to its name even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As this virus swept around the world, Maryknoll Sister Geraldine Brake and her team adapted to...
COVID-19 pandemic changes life for all in Japan, including a Maryknoll priest When the first case of coronavirus was reported in Japan last January—the second country to report a case after it appeared in Wuhan, China—the students at Tenshi College in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, had already...
Maryknoll lay missioner fights for safety of migrant women in ICE custody in El Paso Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka is sounding the alarm about the life-threatening consequences of immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cerneka, a pro bono attorney for...
Amid COVID-19, looking back at how the 1918 influenza pandemic impacted the fledgling Maryknoll Society No vaccine. No antibiotics for treatment. Worldwide control efforts including isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants and limitations of public gatherings. These...
Maryknoll mission promoters go online to accompany missionary disciples during coronavirus pandemic When the COVID-19 quarantine began in Texas, Deacon Arturo Monterrubio and his wife Esperanza were isolated at home. “Do not go out, please; you are elderly people,” their children and friends told...
Latest news from mission sites and countries
around the world.
While the Myanmar government said its response to the COVID-19 pandemic has left “no one behind,” thousands of civilians including children, women and the elderly have no time to pack their belongings and flee their homes.
Justice movements need people to unite behind strategic goals, says the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Hutukara Yanomami Association and Brazil’s National Council for Human Rights petitioned the Organization of American States to issue a restraining order for the Brazilian government, so illegal miners and gold miners withdraw from indigenous land.
Earthquake of 7.4 magnitude kills at least five people, damages hospital in the southern state of...
An activist's quest to find out what happened to her husband has been stymied by an absence of...
Facebook campaign seeks to end use of a term deemed offensive to ethnic minorities With...
High court rules against Trump administration's plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood...
Suffering people in Tanzania are living proof that hope requires a certain degree of resilience...
Church decries discrimination as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the populous country of Bangladesh...
Latino families have been affected by COVID-19 pandemic along with racism, injustice and...
After the discovery of eight mass graves in Libya, Pope Francis appeals for peace in the...
Rights group claims responsibility for the security of refugees extends to the countries...
Catholic Church launches campaign in Sao Paulo to keep people home during the COVID-19...
Maryknoll priest reflects on mourning for loved ones who have passed away in this time of coronavirus pandemic The specter of my mom’s inevitable...
Faith helps a nurse in a New York hospital care for COVID-19 patients and encourage her co-workers in the struggle I have been working at...
Vignettes from the lands of mission, told by Maryknoll missioners and volunteers. These popular little stories are sometimes funny, often moving and generally inspiring encounters with people on the margins.
The idea of making protective masks during the COVID-19 pandemic started in our Maryknoll lay missioner house here in Haiti, but we had no big plans in place. Then our Religious of Jesus and Mary friends offered us a sewing machine. Another friend, Geri Lanham, said...
As the dire economic consequences of COVID-19 have emerged, religious and secular institutions, including the Holy See, have advanced a worldwide campaign to provide debt relief for impoverished countries struggling to fight the pandemic.
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts INDEED SAINTLY The account of the course of Maryknoll Father Joseph Cappel’s life as observed by Maryknoll Father Kevin Hanlon in your...
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