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.
A former refugee from Somalia living in Vermont strives to give back to the country that welcomed her family. Madina Dhahir Haji became a U.S. citizen last year, 12 years after emigrating to this country with her mother and four younger siblings as refugees from a Kenyan refugee camp. Dressed in...
Undocumented immigrants facing deportation find sanctuary at temporary shelters around the country. By David R. Aquije "If I don’t see you again, pray for me,” said Jorge Taborda, an undocumented immigrant, to his son Steven, 15, who was born in the United States. He said goodbye and left Steven...
Missioner reflects on changes to his HIV ministry in Peru As soon as Maryknoll Father Joseph Fedora arrives at the Posadita del Buen Pastor (Little Inn of the Good Shepherd), he asks about “his children,” boys and girls who grew up in the shelter for HIV patients in Lima, Peru. Since 1998, he has...
Former Maryknoll missioner works to build peace in Asian land Just before leaving Afghanistan last February after working there for three years, I gazed out my office window on a landscape of snow-capped mountains surrounding the capital city of Kabul. The streets were relatively empty on this...
Maryknoll sister brings special gifts to people with disabilities in China Maryknoll Sister Ngoc-Hà Pham is no stranger to perilous situations. Born in Saigon in 1964 in the midst of the Vietnam War, she fled to the United States with her father and seven siblings when Saigon fell to the...
Miguel d’Escoto was not only a priest, a missioner and peacemaker, but also a revolutionary, a statesman, a diplomat—a beloved son of Maryknoll. Before serving as president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, he was one of several Nicaraguan priests who served in the Sandinista...
Priest who helps sick in North Korea receives Knights of Columbus’ highest award Maryknoll Father Gerard Hammond’s “brave and tireless mission to minister to the ill in North Korea… is carried out in the selfless spirit that has marked Maryknoll priests since the Society’s founding more than a...
Please pray for our Maryknoll missioners who died during the past year. Father Donald L. Allen Sister Mary Lou Andrews Father Peter C. Brien Sister Mary Edna Brophy Sister Jennie Burke Sister Katherine Byrne Father Richard L. Clifford Sister Eugenie Therese Courtright Father Wayman P. Deasy Father...
N.Y. man transitions from military life to mission life By Sean Cintron My six years as an infantry paratrooper in the U.S. Army took me many places and stretched me in ways I could not have predicted. My most trying times were my combat deployments to Iraq (2007) and Afghanistan (2009–2010). As a...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani says that over two decades of peacekeeping have not brought the desired result of peace to the Congo.
Theologian Hosffman Ospino offers an in-depth look at trends within the Hispanic Roman Catholic population in the United States and calls for greater appreciation of its numbers and vitality.
A scholar from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Laboratory who has studied the forced deportation of minors from Ukraine to Russia meets with the papal envoy for peace, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi.
During a short trip to Marseille, France, the pontiff urges people to aid humanitarian efforts to ensure the safety of migrants and refugees.
A Maryknoll priest reflects on the parable of the laborers in the vineyard and relates its teachings to his ministry to the sick and dying in El Salvador.
During National Migration Week, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, highlights the need to “address the coercive forces driving people to migrate.”
Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, says that the Synod can help make local churches more effective in spreading the Gospel.
Numerous Catholic groups were among the estimated 75,000 people who marched to protest fossil fuels before the start of U.N. climate meetings.
A Maryknoll lay missioner reflects on love in the Gospel and relates her journey of sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous and faith in a Higher Power.
As the death toll rises, due to massive flooding in Libya, Church and world leaders express sorrow and organize humanitarian aid.
After Morocco was devastated by an earthquake on Sept. 8, Church and world leaders offer prayers, condolences and humanitarian assistance.
Deacon Paul Carris of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, says the terrorist attacks both challenged his faith and changed his life.
A Maryknoll lay missioner in El Salvador reflects on confronting sin and repairing relationships with our brothers and sisters.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile, a new Orbis book highlights the courage of religious who helped the dictatorship’s victims.
Misconceptions about the Immaculate Conception || By Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M. One of the more...
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 visit a public transplant hospital here in São Paulo, Brazil, where I offer my time and conversation. The patients are there to be treated for diseases such as leukemia and hemophilia. On my visits I have learned many details about serious illnesses, but I also...
Trump administration considers ending protected status for 350,000 people to decrease total number of immigrants. Presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower have granted “temporary protection” to foreign...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts NOT SO FEEL GOOD I am writing to second a reader’s letter in your July/August issue of Maryknoll that practically all your articles are the...
