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.
Maryknoll sister works to provide childhood education with a gentle and compassionate touch || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Lynn F, Monahan [/googlefont] When 6-year-old Agness came with her mother to enroll in kindergarten at Mercy Montessori School in Mwanza, Tanzania,...
Missioner and indigenous preserve the faith in Puno By Maria-Pia Negro Chin, photos by Nile Sprague Before the All Saints’ Day Mass in the highland village of Jayllihuaya, Peru, parishioners at St. James Church approach the altar with offerings such as photos, cloth funerary wreaths, fresh flowers...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Young Hispanic man in Rhode Island finds God’s love and commits to serve || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Giovana Soria, photos by Germán Cruz [/googlefont] When Germán Cruz was 17 years old, he discovered that his mother was suffering from domestic...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Historic synod looks at ministry, mission, ecology and indigenous rights and culture in the Amazon || In October 2019, Pope Francis convened a Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region to address the urgent environmental and social issues affecting that vast region and its...
Please pray for our Maryknoll missioners who died during the past year. Sister Elizabeth Burns Father Thomas A. Ahearn Brother Gordon M. Burns Sister Janet Carroll Father John P. Casey Sister Joan Chatfield Sister Maria Colabella Father James P. Colligan Father Robert F. Crohan Sister Maria...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service[/googlefont] The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is a time of reflection, dialogue and listening to the needs and sufferings of indigenous people, Pope Francis said. "The Holy...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon saw the emergence of key synod themes in its first week, including support for the ordination of married indigenous men, pleas for respect for indigenous culture and denunciations of violence against the...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: Amazon Synod Looks at Indigenous 'Theology of Creation' By demanding respect for the cultures of indigenous peoples, Pope Francis was not promoting pantheism, but -- tapping into his Jesuit roots -- urging respect for a worldview that sees God in all things. The pope Oct....
Missioner highlights the ways the Maryknoll Society shares God’s love and hope around the world By Daniel S. Kim, M.M. Pope Francis has designated October 2019 as the Extraordinary Month of Mission (EMM), a time for the Church to revive our missionary awareness and commitment. Like all missioners,...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
This reflection from the late Sister Madeline Dorsey poignantly retells the love and faith she encountered amid the suffering of El Salvador.
The earth is entrusted to our care, yet still belong to God, the pope says in a message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
The Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist, founded by the U.S. Presentation Sisters, attracts Indigenous women to join a thriving congregation.
A group of Catholic medical students was kidnapped for ransom in Nigeria, in latest attack against Christians in the West African nation.
Thirty percent of parishes nationwide offer Sunday Masses in Spanish, and 3,000 more provide at least some Hispanic pastoral ministry.
We should choose and decide with the grace that God had when he chose to love us, says a Maryknoll priest in the reflection for this week.
Christians make up nearly half of the estimated 280 million migrants worldwide, a new study by the Pew Research Center finds.
Jerusalem Cardinal says that conflict in Gaza has deteriorated interreligious dialogue between Muslims, Jews and Christians.
A convert who was arrested in Egypt more than two years for speaking about his Christian faith has declared he will go on a hunger strike.
With no diplomatic truce in sight, war between Sudanese army and paramilitary continues as refugees pour into neighboring South Sudan.
Bread is how Jesus gives himself to us, says Judy Coode in this reflection. So why are so many denied the taste of the food of love?
As the Vatican continues diplomatic efforts to foster peace between Ukraine and Russia, Pope Francis entrusts war torn countries to Mary.
Catholic Bishops say that charity for migrants and needy is an integral part of Catholic identity, not something that should be criminalized.
In El Salvador, an initiative by the Vatican offers free schooling to vulnerable children at risk of exploitation, crime and poverty.
Priest reflects on how God was forming him for a life of missionary discipleship I first...
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.
As I usually do three times a week, I jumped on the number 800 bus to go to the local seminary here in China. Oddly enough, in this city of some 4 million people, the bus had a lot of open seats that day. I sat down on one of them. All of a sudden, I felt wet. I...
Activists and ordinary people on US-Mexico border put nonviolence into action in response to migration crisis. || By Susan Gunn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us the power of nonviolent...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts SACRED MEMORIES In your May/June 2019 MARYKNOLL magazine, an article entitled “You are the now of God” begins with a photo of a blonde girl...
