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.
For the business-minded Chinese, location is everything. As Catholics in the business of evangelization, this fact has not been lost at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, where I was pastor for 13 years. Our Lady of Mount Carmel is an inner-city parish located in the middle of Hong Kong Island’s...
Maryknoll lay missioners climb miles to help a widow and her six children Here in Bolivia we enjoy lots of sunshine, but the sun does not shine equally for everyone. Doña Evarista and her husband, Don Sabino, were subsistence potato farmers when we met them at their home in Sachacaymane, an...
Maryknoll sister helps to shed light on human rights violations in Asia One morning, a man wakes up, hugs his children and kisses his wife goodbye before walking to work. But, he does not come back home. His wife calls her husband’s job and hospitals and looks around the city. Finally, the family...
Maryknoll mission promoter has spent her life helping youth discover their missionary vocation || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Giovana Soria [/googlefont] Araceli Guardado’s interest in teaching began when she was 10 years old at the United Nations‘ Mesa Grande refugee camp...
Young people at World Youth Day encouraged to say "yes" to the Lord's call As the sun rose above a field filled with tents and sleeping bags on the outskirts of Panama City, thousands of young pilgrims from 155 countries woke up ready to praise God at World Youth Day. They had been inspired...
Fleeing gang violence, internally displaced Salvadorans find a temporary safe haven || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds[/googlefont] Nineteen-year-old Pablo has been in what he jokingly calls “this paradise” for 13 months. Together with his father, his...
Sister Jeanne Rancourt answers a call to care for asylum seekers in a U.S. border city The appeal that went out to all congregations of sisters across the United States last fall was urgent. The president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) was pleading for volunteers to come to...
Maryknoll helps Hispanic youth in Texas to serve in mission During a short-term immersion trip to Bolivia organized by Maryknoll last year, Dulce Tovar visited a tutoring program run by Maryknoll Father Paul Sykora for children at high risk in Cochabamba. As she was helping an 8-year-old girl with...
Ryan Thibert, from Canada, takes his permanent oath as a Maryknoll brother Recalling his first visit to the Maryknoll Society campus in Ossining, N.Y., Ryan Thibert says, “I felt I had finally arrived at my home, the place I was called to be.” After eight years of study and service, he will take...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
In the first stop in Indonesia for his Asia tour, Pope Francis tells leaders to fight prejudice and extremism with tolerance and dialogue
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.
Even when we feel far from God, God never leaves us When inviting people to come to church,...
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.
When I was living among the Aymara women in the Andes Mountains of Peru, it was not uncommon to see a woman walking along with her hands in constant motion. Under her arm she would have a large ball of newly shorn wool from an alpaca or sheep. In her hands she would...
Catholic Nonviolence Initiative to present document on nonviolence and faith This April, the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative—a global project supported by Pax Christi International, Maryknoll and...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts JOINT EMPATHY I join you in your empathy for refugees. Charity demands a positive response to their plight, and, as you said, it begins with...
