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.
Kenyan Maryknoll seminarian learns "lessons of God" in Bolivia John Siyumbu was 13 years old when he, his two sisters and some 80 other young people received the sacrament of confirmation; and he felt the missionary call of Jesus: “Go out to the whole...
Recalling the gangland barrio from which migrants flee The names of the places jumped out at me as I read articles over the past months about the caravans of migrants walking from Central America to the United States to seek asylum. One of the migrant caravans that include families and...
Former undocumented immigrant helps migrants today in Los Angeles "What are we going to do if one of us doesn’t come home one night?” This was the question Isaac Cuevas remembers his parents discussing at the dinner table when he was a child. “During those years, there were raids at...
Father Kurt Anderson continues Maryknoll tradition in Taiwan For more than 100 years, generations of Maryknoll missioners have gone to the field afar, learned new languages, and connected with people from different cultures while sharing God’s message of mercy. Father Kurt J. Anderson, a...
Newest priests begin language study and ministry in Hong Kong Like other Maryknollers before them, Fathers Peter Latouf and Daniel Kim spent their first year as priests studying the language and culture of the people they serve. “I think the study is paying off,” Father Latouf says right after...
A Maryknoll sister in East Africa works to uplift at-risk students At the Mmazami Primary School outside of Musoma, a city on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Sister Marion Hughes and a small group of visitors are greeted with a song as they enter a classroom full of...
Thirteen new Maryknoll missioners begin their overseas missions When Verónica Arriagada and her husband José Luís Aguilar told their four adult children of their plans to become Maryknoll lay missioners serving overseas, the response was disbelief. “Our children thought we were a little crazy,”...
Maryknoll lay missioner learns sign language as he runs a mobile library in El Salvador Returning from home leave in the States to the community of La Esperanza in El Salvador, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, I began visiting the 35 families who use our mobile library. One book...
Church’s openness to listen to young people signals they are considered a priority When Pope Francis goes to Panama to celebrate the 34th World Youth Day in January, thousands of young Catholics will be there to praise God with him. This year, the international gathering takes place as the...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Catholic prelates send greetings to President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to be elected to the top post of Mexico.
In the town of Sumpul, an annual event brings together generations to commemorate a massacre, in the hope that atrocities never happen again.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on Corpus Christi in the context of a mission of love to serve the world’s poor and abandoned.
The relief agency has been unable to deliver humanitarian aid to the southern area of the Gaza Strip since May 6, says its country director.
The Holy Spirit can lead humanity from chaos to harmony, teaches Pope Francis in the first talk of a series on the Holy Spirit.
Caritas Australia is mobilizing relief efforts to assist the survivors of a landslide that is feared to have taken 2,000 lives in a remote rural area.
A Maryknoll sister in Brazil reflects on the readings for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity in the context of holistic creation spirituality.
Pope Francis denounces the Texas attorney general’s lawsuit against Annunciation House, an organization that serves migrants.
In his weekly general audience Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis teaches on the importance of humility in the spiritual life of Christians.
With weeks of storms and flooding devastating entire communities, Catholics in Brazil mobilize relief efforts for the displaced.
Launched from various starting points, four pilgrimages set out at Pentecost, to converge at the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21.
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa travels to Gaza for the first time since the conflict broke out last October.
Catholic immigration experts worry that a proposed rule change to “credible fear” protocols will deter — and even endanger — asylum seekers.
The doctrine of the Ascension teaches us that all people are invited to the path to heaven, with Jesus leading the way, said Pope Francis.
God is with us in our dangers, dilemmas and crises Unrelenting wave upon wave of sex scandals,...
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.
In Venezuela, I lived in barrio Nueva Tacagua. One of my neighbors was an elderly woman named America Lopez, who lived in a one-room shack with her daughter and three grandchildren. People called America La Loca, “the crazy one,” because she often acted out of touch...
Maryknoll missioners urge people of faith to ask if the new trade agreement will improve life for all From Cambodia to El Salvador, Bangladesh to Tanzania, Maryknoll missioners accompany people and...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts REMEMBERING ROMERO Let us thank Octavio Duran, OFM, for his wonderful article in the September/October 2018 issue of Maryknoll on Saint Oscar...
