In this issue of Maryknoll, we examine how cuts to U.S. foreign aid have impacted a major AIDS relief program launched decades ago in Kenya by Maryknoll missioners, while in another article, we visit an AIDS hospice started by Maryknoll sisters that provides care and shelter to patients in Guatemala.
We continue our coverage of immigration with a look at the Church’s clear opposition to mass deportation and the mistreatment of migrants. We meet the latest group of Maryknoll lay missioners, accompany young adults on a pilgrimage to Rome, and share other mission stories from around the world.
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 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.
rom their places of mission across the world, 82 Maryknoll Sister delegates came together recently at their 18th General Assembly to ask this question: “Where is the Holy Spirit leading us?” The sisters chose as their new leadership team Sisters Teresa Rose Hougnon, Genie C....
Meet the new General Council of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers: Fathers Lance Nadeau, James Lynch, Lam Hua and Timothy Kilkelly.
September 12, 1921: the first six Maryknoll sisters set out for mission in China. Their departure was both joyful and sobering, as they bid farewell to families and homeland for life.
Candidates to priesthood and brotherhood share in the Maryknoll spirit during vocational formation aryknoll seminarian John Siyumbu was asked to visit an elderly woman in Chicago and pray with her family. Responding to his call to serve and accompany God’s people, he...
Father Joseph Thaler reflects on his lifelong mission to serve as a Maryknoll priest alongside the most vulnerable people of Nepal.
Serving in São Paulo, Brazil, Margarita Durán has found that building new relationships and friendships is the most rewarding part of being a lay missioner.
Volunteering in a goat project in Tanzania called Hope on Hooves, a Maryknoll affiliate from Seattle discovers mission is from everywhere to everywhere. never thought it would be possible to do mission in Tanzania from my living room in the state of Washington. But a goat...
New solar canopy project aligns with the Maryknoll Society’s goal to combat environmental destruction and care for God’s creation.
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Marie Dennis, director of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, reflects on the Mass readings.
Catholic relief efforts to assist earthquake victims are impeded by the country’s deep poverty and repressive military junta.
Catholic and Evangelical experts issue a joint report on the situation of Christians at risk of deportation under the Trump Administration.
With its death toll projected several thousand, the earthquake leaves war-torn Myanmar and neighboring Thailand in desperate need of international aid.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Marjorie Humphrey reflects on the parable of the Prodigal Son in the context of her ministry in East Africa.
As protests erupt in Turkey following the arrest of a political opponent, Catholics wonder if curtailed freedoms will impact them.
The executive order cancellation of a parole program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela puts 532,000 migrants in limbo.
A rally, march and vigil on March 24 condemned mass deportations and promoted Catholic social teaching on migration.
After an extended stay in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Pope Francis returns home under doctors’ orders for two months of rest.
Maryknoll Father Greg McPhee, who serves in Bolivia, invites readers to reflect on the Spirit of Christ that leads our Lenten journeys.
In its ongoing persecution of the Church, military forces in Myanmar set St. Patrick’s Cathedral on fire on the eve of the saint’s feast day.
Each vocation is “a sign of God’s hope,” says Pope Francis in his message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations to be observed May 11.
Catholic groups offer relief to migrants undertaking a “reverse migration” through Central America to return home.
Bishops decry ‘cruelest’ violence as volunteers discover an extermination and recruitment camp run by a drug cartel in Mexico
Recent chapter of Maryknoll Society affirmed the policy of accepting vocations from our overseas mission areas.
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.
Missioners offer snippets of mission life in Brazil, Bangladesh, South Sudan and Nicaragua as well as at the Maryknoll Sisters center in New York.
omentum is building for ambitious action to counter climate change, both in the world community and within the Catholic Church. New climate goals announced by President Joe Biden...
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