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.
Father Bill Mullan champions the rights of Mayan people in Guatemala Father Bill Mullan and his young driver pull up in a 4x4 at the dirt-floored wooden chapel of Limon, El Remate, a Mayan village in the Petén region of Guatemala. The Maryknoll missioner from Brooklyn, N.Y., has come to celebrate...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
By Janet S. Hockman, M.M. Sunday, July 14, 2024 Am 7:12-15, Eph. 1:3-14, Mk 6:7-13 On a wall in...
On July 9, the Vatican released the working document for the upcoming Synod session in October,...
As 9 million people are displaced by conflict, Sudanese bishops urge help for 25 million people at risk in the world’s largest hunger crisis.
Israeli armed forces killed four at a Catholic school, Holy Family School, where hundreds of civilians seek shelter since the war broke out.
In an address given in Trieste, Italy, Pope Francis spoke about characteristics of a true democracy, which he said is in “crisis” worldwide.
A Mayknoll lay missioner reflects on the Sunday readings and her ministry in Tanzania with children and adults with HIV — “prophets.”
A judge of the District Court of El Paso found that the Texas attorney general’s suit against the nonprofit Annunciation House violates religious freedom laws.
During his Sunday Angelus address the day after the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Francis said that all people are invited to heaven.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the readings for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, World Refugees Day and the Bark of Pete.
Jerome Wesevich, a lawyer for Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, says the Texas attorney general's attempt...
Pope Francis is the first pontiff to attended the annual G7 summit, which brings the leaders of...
By Anna Johnson, MKLM Sunday, June 16, 2024Ez 17:22-24 | 2 Cor 5:6-10 | Mk 4:26-34 This week’s...
The Dorothy Day Guild presents the group’s Peacemaker Award to Pax Christi USA for its commitment to the building a world without conflict.
Marking the World Day Against Child Labor, groups say one in 10 children are forced into child labor globally.
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...
