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 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,...
Maryknoll missioners recall deceased colleague Mary Among the many gifts Mary D’Arcy shared with her beloved Maryknoll family was her remarkable ability to be present. “When Mary sat down with you, it was as if you were the only person she had ever worked with, or even, the only one in the world!”...
Please pray for our Maryknoll missioners who died during the past year. Sister Elizabeth Burns Father Bernard P. Byrne Father George G. Cotter Brother Duane T. Crockett Father Gerald J. Farrell Sister Eileen Franz Sister Rosemary Garrity Father John Geitner Father Sigmund S. Jamroz Father Walter...
The Maryknoll Society celebrates a century of going forth in mission When Maryknoll priests and brothers mark the 100th anniversary of their first mission sending on September 7, one missioner in particular will be basking in the joy of this milestone: Father Lawrence Schanberger. “The...
A Franciscan brother recalls his time and work with the living saint. On March 24, 1980, we Salvadorans wept when a killer’s bullet silenced the voice of the voiceless, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, head of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, El Salvador. We will cry again on Oct. 14, 2018,...
Sisters from Peru, East Timor, South Korea and the Philippines make final vows Four young women began their mission journeys in four different countries of the world. They had never met each other before they gathered at Maryknoll, N.Y., but the same Spirit moved each one with the strong...
Maryknoll priest promotes clean water and organic farming in Guatemala Story and photos by Sean Sprague Maryknoll Father Edward Custer drives a dozen youth from San Juan Apostol parish in El Remate, Petén, Guatemala, in his pick-up truck and heads to nearby Lake Macanche. Parishioner Alejandro...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
The bishops of Rwanda expressed their closeness to genocide survivors as the country marks the...
"Be Not Afraid: March and Vigil for Human Dignity” expressed support for Annunciation House and...
Pope Francis asks Christ to "roll away" the stone of war in Ukraine, the Holy Land and all the...
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the Easter Sunday readings and recounts how Maryknoll sisters seek the Risen Christ as they pursue justice.
Pope Francis sends a message to El Salvador for Good Friday, urging Salvadorans — and all...
Pope Francis sees the friendship between two fathers who lost children to violence in the Holy...
St. Sabina Catholic Church unveiled a statue of Jesus Christ commemorating Chicago’s victims of gun violence in preparation for Holy Week.
The Catholic community in Jerusalem, led by the courageous Latin patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ushers in Holy Week.
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on seasonal rains, suffering and the renewal of life during Holy Week.
To migrants, pope says, “You are not discarded,” and adds, “you form part of the human family and the family of God’s children.”
The Sudan and South Sudan bishops publish a letter warning that the Sudanese people are “on the brink of destitution.”
Church groups decry the Panama’s ban on Doctors Without Borders, a medical organization that provides health care to migrants.
Leaders including Talitha Kum network’s international coordinator Maryknoll Sister Abby Avelino say that educating migrants is key so they don’t fall prey to traffickers.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the covenant that we make with God, with each other and with all of nature.
Sorrowing Catholics have two models to inspire them: Jesus suffering on the cross and 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.
Making do is sometimes all you can do inside the United Nations camp for internally displaced people in Malakal, South Sudan, where I serve as a Maryknoll missioner. Recently, that meant improvising a one-wheeled ambulance to get a couple of ailing women to the camp’s...
U.S. Catholic Bishops, Maryknoll and others add strong Catholic voice for goals of Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement, adopted at the United Nations climate talks in France in 2015 and supported...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts UNITY AND FORGIVENESS The May/June 2018 Maryknoll magazine arrived the day the reading was from Acts 15:1–6, the story of Paul and Barnabas...
