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.
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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
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 COVID-19 coronavirus and international volunteers were called by their organizations to leave the country.
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.
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...
When the first coronavirus case 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 finished their exams. There were only a few students around the campus where Maryknoll Father Kenneth Sleyman has been teaching for 19 years.
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.
No vaccine. No antibiotics for treatment. Worldwide control efforts including isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants and limitations of public gatherings. These words, so resonant today in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, were used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to describe the influenza pandemic that ravaged the world more than a century ago.
Maryknoll mission promoters accompany missionary disciples during pandemic, offering webinar series during Lent, Holy Week and the Easter season.
Latest news from mission sites and countries
around the world.
Latin American church raises alarm about infection in overcrowded prisons. By Eduardo Campos...
Pope Francis begins a series of audience talks on Catholic social teaching in light of the...
Over 100 roadblocks cause fears of medical supply shortage amid COVID-19 pandemic By Catholic News...
Despite being a small minority, Christians are dedicated to responding to the coronavirus pandemic...
On the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Pope Francis calls for peace By Carol...
Many younger people around the world reach out to their elders in time of pandemic By Bronwen...
COVID-19 is setback for achieving gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. Mary...
Cathedral firebombing is latest of three recent attacks on churches in Nicaragua By David Agren,...
Between January and June, India witnessed 293 cases of hate crimes against Christians By UCA News...
Fire of youth that began with scholarship students in Taiwan continues to burn Many things...
Migrants and informal workers exposed to trafficking and exploitation By Junno Arocho Esteves,...
Vatican launches campaign to reach out to elderly suffering isolation due to pandemic By Carol...
Relief efforts hampered by underfunding, while affected people lose hope By Stephan Uttom, UCA...
Maryknoll priest reflects on mourning for loved ones who have passed away in this time of...
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...
Debt relief campaign seeks to help impoverished countries struggling with COVID-19 pandemic avert financial ruin As the dire economic consequences of COVID-19 have emerged, religious and...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media postsINDEED 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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