Our Winter 2022 issue focuses on how Maryknoll missioners are responding to the crisis of displaced people clamoring for asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as stories about the newly elected leaderships of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and the Maryknoll Sisters, 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.
Maryknoll community in El Paso addresses humanitarian crisis through ministries for migrants and border communities.oralis Salvador boarded a train in Kenya, headed to Nairobi. “After 19 years in Africa with Maryknoll Lay Missioners, my contract was ending,” Salvador says. “I...
Maryknoll Father William Donnelly, who served in Guatemala, recalls love of mission, even in the worst of times.
Challenging conditions surrounding Jesus' birth parallel the challenges facing single mothers in developing countries today. In the Christmas readings, we hear of an unmarried woman becoming pregnant with a son who will be a light in a land of gloom. The stories...
Maryknoll lay missioner helps students stay in the countryside of Bolivia.hen Leonardo Mamani Villa started school at 6 years of age in Tacopaya, an indigenous town in the remote rural highlands of Cochabamba in the Bolivian Andes, he struggled. Leonardo, whose first language...
Eighty years ago, when an executive order imprisoned Japanese Americans, Maryknoll missioners became their tireless advocates.
Mexican American teacher in El Paso, Texas volunteers assisting migrants at the border alongside her Maryknoll mentor
Maryknoll Sisters elect new Congregational Leadership Team to guide the sisters in mission for the next six years.
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers' General Chapter, which convenes every six years, recently established future goals and priorities and selected new leadership for the missionary society. The Maryknoll Society’s new General Council consists of Father Lance P. Nadeau, superior general; Father...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Bishops from U.S. and El Salvador celebrate Mass at the tombs of Maryknoll martyrs Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)
Four Salvadoran martyrs, two priests and two lay companions killed during the civil war, are...
Salvadorans celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1992 signing of the peace accords ending their country’s 12-year civil war.
Despite evidence that the expanded child tax credit has reduced poverty, legislators are unable to...
Catholic refugees from Afghanistan wait in limbo in a refugee camp in the United Arab Emirates, hoping to to be resettled.
Pope Francis sends relief aid to the Philippines after a deadly typhoon and to Caritas Poland for migrants stranded at the Belarus border.
The Catholic Church is helping evacuate and shelter thousands of people fleeing their homes in conflict-torn Kayah state in eastern Myanmar.
Assassination of indigenous human rights activist and pastoral agent Pablo Isabel Hernández in Honduras provokes international outcry.
Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe urges renewed commitment to peace with the goal of eliminating...
In Ethiopia, Bishop Lesanuchristos Matheos describes the conflict, hunger and violence suffered by his people as a “Way of the Cross.”
Pope Francis urges diplomatic corps to eschew divisions and decries “cancel culture” as ideological colonization.
Afghan immigrant Sayed Wardak helps church agency welcome refugees from his homeland with Catholic...
Law signed in the Philippines prohibits child marriage and allows authorities to impose heavy punishment, including up to 12 years in prison.
A year since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a Catholic chaplain still sees pain and mental stress among metropolitan police officers.
Recent chapter of Maryknoll Society affirmed the policy of accepting vocations from our overseas mission areas.
close relative of mine was suffering from HIV in the late 1990s, before antiretroviral drugs came to my homeland,...
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.
T here were no Christmas trees in northern Peru where I served as a Sister of Charity in mission. But there were nacimientos, Christmas crèches, that adorned the humblest of homes. Elaborate Nativity scenes were constructed with the heavy brown paper of cement bags...
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The first paragraph of this story was updated on Jan. 6, 2022, to reflect further postponement of the meeting. The COVID-19 pandemic has once again led to the postponement of a meeting of world...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts.HOPE FOR YOUNG MENI was so happy to read the article “Building Hope in Jamaica” in your Summer 2021 issue about the programs for young men...
