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.
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.
Father Alejandro López Cardinale and his Massachusetts parishioners launch a family project to foster a sense of belonging during COVID-19.
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Catholic priest Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win was murdered on Feb. 14 in Myanmar, where Christians are targeted by the military junta.
The communications manager for Maryknoll Lay Missioners reflects on the Sunday Mass readings and poverty in her home state of Michigan.
Religious leaders and UNICEF officials cry out for international support as they testify to atrocities committed against children in Haiti.
Pope Francis issues a letter to the U.S. bishops and to the Catholic Church in the United States in general, calling for solidarity.
Carolyn Woo, who served as CEO for Catholic Relief Services, warns that millions of lives around the world will be endangered by the closing.
Maryknoll Sister Susan Rech, who serves in Tanzania, reflects on the call to mission and Sunday’s Mass readings.
Church leaders speak out against Russian strikes on eastern Ukraine over the weekend that took lives and damaged the historic city of Odesa.
“A childhood denied is a silent scream,” Pope Francis said at a Feb. 3 summit at the Vatican, decrying dire situations as “the new normal.”
Maryknoll Father James Kroeger reflects on the Presentation of the Lord and the call to be available for service and mission.
Though dialogue and diplomacy, Pope Francis says to conference attendees in Havana, countries build societies rooted in solidarity with the marginalized.
As deportations to Latin America increase, church and national leaders speak out about remittances, treatment of migrants and tariffs.
An emergency summit of the East African Community will meet Jan. 29 to address the violence led by Tutsi rebels in Goma, Congo.
Mother Matylda Getter, Warsaw superior of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust.
Maryknoll Missioner Kyle Johnson, who serves in Tanzania, reflects on the Sunday Mass readings and the Spirit that enlivens the body.
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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