July August 2020

To Our Partners in Mission

by Raymond J. Finch, M.M. | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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 connection to you. You have been our partners in mission through good times and bad, supporting our work in so many ways. Now we reach out to you in solidarity at this time of fear, uncertainty and suffering. We know that many of you have lost loved ones to the coronavirus. We understand and share your pain. We too have lost members of our mission society—13 of our elders—as well as relatives and...

Mission Voices Amid COVID-19

by Maryknoll Magazine | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

Maryknoll missioners in various parts of the world share how they and the people they serve are responding to COVID-19

Going Where You Are Needed

by Matthew Sim and Charles Ogony | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020, Vocation Journey

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.

Ahead of Coronavirus, Starvation Stalks East Africa

by Lynn F. Monahan | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.

New Life in the Golden Years

by Maria-Pia Negro Chin | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

Maryknoll sister’s ministry provides compassionate accompaniment to elderly residents in PanamaThe...

Changing Course in a Time of Crisis

by David Aquije | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.

Detained Migrants Face COVID-19 Risk

by Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.

The Year of Departures

by Jennifer Halloran | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Stories, July August 2020

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.