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 and Columban Fathers take U.S. Catholics on short-term mission trip to both sides of the U.S./Mexico border When he embarked on a short-term mission trip this past summer, Matt Gray, a religious educator of the Diocese of Oakland, California, said, “I wanted to expand my own...
Maryknoll center in Bolivia helps a local parish carry out its call to go forth || by David R. Aquije St. Pius X Church in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is taking to heart Pope Francis’ call for parishes to become more missionary. With the help of the Maryknoll Missionary Center for Latin America (CMMAL),...
Maryknoll Sister Angela Brennan receives blessings as she brings love and spiritual guidance to prisoners in El Salvador || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]by Sean Sprague[/googlefont] It was the mid-1950s and jobs were scarce in Ireland when 17-year-old Angela Brennan left her...
A Maryknoll lay missioner is moving on after three decades as a doctor in Africa || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]Story and photos by Sean Sprague[/googlefont] It’s a special day at the medical clinic in the informal settlement known as Bangladesh on the edge of the Kenyan...
Referencing Pope Francis’ call “to take a clear stand for creative and active nonviolence and against all forms of violence,” we asked students to cite examples of violence and tell what they are doing or could do to promote peace. We received 4,773 essays from students competing in two divisions...
A Maryknoll priest responds to killer flooding in Nepal || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Giovana Soria[/googlefont] Lauti Tharu, a gaunt woman with dark hair, was with her grandson when flood water swept into her home in the village of Godiyana in the Bardiya district of...
|| [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Giovana Soria[/googlefont] Maryknoll Father Joseph Thaler remembers the desperation in Nepal after the April 25, 2015, earthquake that killed 9,000 people and injured more than 21,000. In the village of Bhimtar, he saw 900 homes reduced to...
Pope Francis says he will “do everything possible” to help persecuted people of Myanmar By Joe Torres, Rock Ronald Rozario and Stephan Uttom Expectations are high among Rohingya refugees in makeshift camps in the town of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, after Pope Francis met with 16 of them in Dhaka, the...
Missioners’ trauma healing workshops help people around the globe to overcome traumas In February 2010, just a month after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, Maryknoll Father Dennis Moorman discovered the urgent need for his newly acquired skills. Even though the Haitian patients...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Christians today, like Jesus’ disciples 2,000 years ago, need to see how Christ encountered people and welcomed them in their fragility.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Peg Vámosy reflects on the upcoming Mass readings, ecological sin and her ministry in El Salvador.
Experts point to continuing scandal of child labor, and in some states, setbacks as companies are caught employing migrant children.
Still recovering from flulike symptoms, Pope Francis attended the audience but had an aide read his message on pride and envy.
Curas villeros, who minister in shantytowns, say the austerity measures imposed by President Javier Milei are “a step backward.”
Burkina Faso’s bishop of the Diocese of Dori reports 15 worshipers died in an attack on a Catholic Church during Sunday Mass.
Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey, who served for five decades in East Africa, relates how young Catholics care for creation in Kenya by planting trees.
Amid repression from the government, Russian Catholics commemorate the death of political dissident Alexei Navalny who died in prison.
Retired Archbishop Isichenko of Ukraine speaks out on Russian invasion during a visit to the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
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.
In the shadow of the cross || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]by Joseph R....
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.
I happened to stop at the home of one of my African friends in Tanzania. As I entered, I could hear all sorts of exciting noise coming from the living room. My friend and three others were playing Scrabble. They were really into it and talking in loud and animated...
The pope says that to find peace, migrants and refugees “risk their lives” on long and dangerous trips No one knew what to expect when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina announced five...
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