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.
Program started by a Maryknoll priest seeks to counter gang violence Before the current wave of gang violence began driving hundreds of thousands of people, mostly youths and mothers with children, from Central America in search of peace and refuge, a courageous Maryknoll priest from Connecticut...
South Sudanese tell of flight from civil war to refugee settlement and faith in the future. Eugene Obwoya says he grew old in a refugee camp. The agronomist and Catholic catechist says he has fled fighting in his native South Sudan three times in his life, all three times to neighboring Uganda....
A clan leader of South Sudanese refugees sets an example for peacebuilding Two years after gaining independence as a new nation in 2011, South Sudan once again slipped into civil war, the third time in more than 60 years. This time the conflict is between the country’s two largest ethnic...
Sister Mary Ellen Manz remembers the students she taught in the 1980s and 1990s in war-torn southern Sudan. As a teacher in southern Sudan during the 1980s and 1990s, I recall the first time I was writing on the blackboard and turned around to discover my whole class had left. The children could...
Maryknoll priest reflects on Muslim reverence for the Virgin Mary In the city of Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, a Muslim high school student explained to his Jesuit teacher why he had missed class. “Yesterday was the fiesta of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora del Pilar,”...
Hispanic Catholic leaders meet to discuss the present and future of Hispanic ministry in the United States. “I dream of a Church that goes out,” said Pope Francis, and thousands of Catholics are doing just that. They are participating in regional meetings, or encuentros, on the way to the V...
The guitar of a martyred missioner calls others to sing and serve. I first learned of Jean Donovan in 1984, almost four years after she and three other North American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador by government soldiers. Jean was a lay member of the Diocese of Cleveland mission team....
A Maryknoll sister joins in accompanying women struggling for new life When Iris Ivarra was a minor, she got married and had the first of her four children. “Practically, I played with real babies,” she says. For Ivarra and other young girls in the colonia (neighborhood) of Panfilo Natera in...
Father Hegarty empowers people to live as gifts of God. Gone are the days when Maryknoll Father Frederick Hegarty navigated muddy paths and mountain trails on horseback or bicycle or in a jeep-like vehicle called a Unimog to share the Gospel with farmers in rural Chile. These days, at 91, he gets...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the Incarnation in light of the Mass readings for the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).
In his Christmas message, Pope Francis called on people to remember the suffering caused by war and to instead adore the Prince of Peace.
Recent changes to immigration law will make it difficult for foreign-born priests to serve in the United States, says the Catholic bishops’ migration committee chairman.
A Maryknoll seminarian reflects on the readings for the final Sunday of Advent and invites others to share the joy of serving.
Advocates decry Texas governor Greg Abbott’s law authorizing the arrest of migrants entering the state.
An 18-year-old sends a wrenching letter from the church in Gaza City where 600 Christians are seeking shelter from bombardment.
Catholic advocates for the environment say that the international gathering attended by world leaders in Dubai from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 offers modest hope.
A Maryknoll lay missioner at the border tells the story of a migrant named Gil as he reflects on the Mass readings for this upcoming Sunday.
On the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Pope Francis says that the meaning of the apparition story is found at its most basic level.
Advocate for the poor Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini of Huehuetenango has been warned by Guatemala’s apostolic nuncio that he is at risk of arrest.
On this second Sunday of Advent, a Maryknoll Sister meditates on our “readiness” to welcome the Lord as well as those who need our help.
Advocates call for an immediate start of the Loss and Damage Fund to assist poor countries in mitigating the damage of climate change.
Bishop calls for help for refugees in the Sahel, a belt of 10 countries stretching across Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
Pope Francis tells COP28 in video message that religions must set a good example by working together for peace and the climate.
Holy people like Mother Teresa continued serving despite their doubts || By Joseph R. Veneroso,...
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.
One Sunday returning from celebrating Mass in three different locations in the Diocese of Musoma, Tanzania, I was happy to park my motorcycle. Shortly afterward, however, someone came to report that an elderly woman was gravely ill in her village and asked that I come...
Catholic institutions heeding call to get out of carbon fuels When a group of students at Swarthmore College in Philadelphia took a class trip to the Appalachian Mountains in 2010, they were shocked...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts PRAYER FOR PRIESTS Today I read a beautiful article in Maryknoll magazine (March/April 2018 issue) honoring Harry Florentine. No one can fill...
