Our Winter 2021 issue of Maryknoll magazine focuses on the displaced and dispossessed, including refugees among whom a Maryknoll brother discovered Christmas, on four churchwomen martyrs now honored as saints, on Maryknoll’s newest priest … 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.
The coronavirus pandemic could postpone but not stop the vocational call to the priesthood for the newest member of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, Father Gregory McPhee.
Maryknoll Brother Martin Shea documents with photos and poetry the flight and return of Guatemalan refugees and in the process he finds true Christmas.
Maryknoll Father Michael Bassano describes what life is like for internally displaced persons in a U.N. camp in South Sudan.
Forty years after the brutal killings of four U.S. churchwomen, a city in El Salvador claims Maryknoll sisters as its own martyrs.
Agustin de la Rosa Reyes earns his living as a handyman. But by vocation, he is a listener and healer in the La Esperanza community in El Salvador.
A lay missioner’s legal advocacy—with the prayers and support of many—changes Elizabeth’s life forever.
At 87 years old, Helen Hannan Parra is on a mission: to tell everyone she can about the unjust imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
In a new book, Two Days and One Suitcase, Helen Hannan Parra, now in her 80s, shares her childhood memories of life in a Japanese-American internment camp.
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a standing ovation from fellow parishioners of St. Brigid Church in Los Angeles for reciting a poem she wrote about the parish…
The 2021 World Watch List, compiled by the US-based Christian advocacy group Open Doors, says North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran and India are hotbeds of Christian persecution in Asia.
Catholic leaders welcomed President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day announcement that the United States would rejoin the Paris climate change agreement.
Biden pauses for a moment of silence for all those who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. By...
Maryknoll Mission Center in Bolivia ends 55 years of service with a solidarity campaign to aid the...
As many as 14.1 million American households are at risk of eviction, survey shows. By Dennis...
After fleeing persecution in Myanmar, Rohingya face indefinite detention like Pakistani Christians...
Five dead after supporters of President Trump storm the nation's Capitol building. ROME (CNS) --...
Human Rights Watch says mass arrests remove 'the remaining veneer of democracy’ in Hong Kong. By...
Victims shot during attempted arrest of 28 people in the Philippines accused of being communist...
Auxiliary Bishop Moses Chikwe of Owerri was released by their abductors Jan. 1 By Peter Ajayi...
20 missionaries who died violent deaths in 2020 were witnesses of the Gospel By Cindy Wooden,...
Auxiliary Bishop Moses Chikwe of Nigeria was kidnappedVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Auxiliary Bishop...
The miracle of Christmas is God didn’t just take on our human nature but transformed our chronological time into God’s fullness of time.
If what you learn as a child shapes your maturity, the Balio family from Pantukan, Philippines, is one of the wisest families.
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.
I first met Jose when he participated in my first Theater of the Oppressed group in a parish on the periphery of João Pessoa, Brazil, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner. Jose (not his real name) was probably 20 years old and very active in the parish. He had...
Pope Francis asks Vatican COVID-19 Commission to focus on four social issue areas: security, economics, ecology and health.
Our readers comment on past articles appearing in Maryknoll magazine under the heading of Readers’ Responses Winter 2021.
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