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.
Chab Dai Coalition in Cambodia brings groups together to end human trafficking Lita carefully traces daisies on the cake she is preparing for her client in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is grateful for the work she has and the skill she has gained as a pastry chef. But her life has not been one of all...
Maryknoll ministry for Catholic singles encourages fellowship—and Catholic marriages Jerry Chen, a young Catholic living in Taipei, says finding Catholic friends in Taiwan is hard because Catholics comprise less than 1.5 percent of his country’s population. Finding a Catholic significant other is...
Witnesses are moved by the suffering of separated migrants and their children “Please, my son needs me! I have never been separated from him. I beg you to help me. I’m not lying. I am here because of fear. I am desperate. I can’t go back to my country because my son and I are in danger.” This is...
A Salesian priest sees the plight of Jesus, Mary and Joseph reflected in South Sudanese refugees in Uganda today Christmas has taken on a deeper meaning for me this year since I began serving as chaplain for refugees in the Archdiocese of Gulu in northern Uganda. I minister to more than 36,000...
Maryknoll-founded program relies on faith for success of HIV care and treatment. || by Lynn F. Monahan, photos by Sean Sprague The alley to Anne Ndungu’s tiny home is a narrow, rock-strewn dirt gully between identical buildings of dusty sheets of corrugated metal, the standard building material...
A Maryknoll lay missioner and community health volunteers serve people with HIV in Kenya slum. || Story and photos by Sean Sprague Coralis Salvador quotes part of a homily a Kenyan priest gave many years ago: “We are the body of Mary and we give birth to Jesus … not by words but by how we relate...
Maryknoll ministry helps Filipino workers in need in Taiwan. || by Maria-Pia Negro Chin, photos by Nile Sprague Like thousands of migrant workers in Taiwan, Thelma Daracan, 28, left a low-paying job in her native Philippines to become a caretaker overseas and provide for her family back...
Maryknoll-supported organization in southern Andes receives human rights award for defending indigenous peoples For over a decade, the nonprofit organization Human Rights and Environment (known by its Spanish acronym DHUMA) has combined education and legal aid to defend the rights of Quechua and...
Congress in Bolivia rekindles the flame of missionary discipleship from Canada to Chile Father Alexi Tovar traveled 12 days to get to the Fifth American Missionary Congress (V CAM), in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, from July 10 to 15, 2018. With a little financial help from friends overseas,...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey, who worked with Small Christian Communities in Africa, says they can help revive the Church in the U.S.
By Helen Graham, M.M. First Sunday of Lent Sunday, February 18, 2024Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7 | Rom 5:12-19...
Nigerian Mass attendance is one of the highest in the world in a country where thousands of Christians have been targeted and killed in recent years.
As Catholics everywhere receive ashes and Lent begins, a returned Maryknoll lay mission reflects on the Mass readings.
Lent is a time to free oneself from slavery and help free others from the multiple forms of slavery in the world today, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis celebrates the canonization of Saint María Antonia de Paz Figueroa in a Mass attended by Argentine President Javier Miliei.
Maryknoll Father Frank Breen reflects on the passage of Jesus and the leper as a model for the Church community to be more inclusive.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of 23-year-old Hersh who was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, shares the faith in humanity that is carrying her family through the ordeal.
The bishop links human trafficking to issues in victims’ countries of origin as the day of prayer against trafficking, Feb. 8, approaches.
In Belarus, Catholic priests and church leaders who speak out against the government are harassed and arrested.
Maryknoll Sister Lil Mattingly reflects on how Jesus’ healing ministry continues today as migrants and refugees are cared for at the border.
Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, a Palestinian, says true peace will take at least a generation.
Advocates say that listening to the poor means more than ‘doing for the poor’ and can comprise a first step in becoming a more synodal Church.
As Consolata Father Josiah K’Okal is remembered for his legacy of service to the Warao people, human rights groups demand an investigation into his death.
Christmas calls us to celebrate God at work in everyday events of human life A young woman, Mary,...
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 first arrived in Nairobi and was trying to learn how to navigate this capital city of Kenya, I would walk through Kibera, a huge informal settlement—or slum—with a Kenyan friend, Patrick. A member of the Christian Life Community movement, Patrick does volunteer...
World leaders slated to adopt a U.N. agreement on protection of migrants as well as refugees Leaders from more than 190 countries are scheduled to adopt the “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts CALM SHAKEN My inmost calm was shaken when I came to the end of your article on Mary and Islam in the July/August issue. I have been a...
