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.
Pope Francis challenges the Church to recover its role as “a community of missionary disciples” When Jorge Mario Bergoglio entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 21, he dreamed of serving as a missionary in Japan. As it turned out, health worries kept him home in Argentina. Though he...
|| By Carol Kaplan An immersion trip to El Salvador brings two mothers together I am in El Salvador for a 10-day immersion experience with Friends Across Borders, sponsored by Maryknoll Lay Missioners. I know little about the country beyond the news stories I recall from the civil war of the...
|| By Gabriela Romeri Vietnamese native to become Maryknoll’s newest priest The road that led Lam Minh Hua to Maryknoll began halfway across the world in Vietnam. There, in a hamlet called LaNang, on the outskirts of the eastern coastal province of Da Nang, Hua, who will become Maryknoll’s newest...
Bishops of Sudan/South Sudan issue exhortation for end to violence Two years ago Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin wrote in Maryknoll magazine about being in the new nation of South Sudan just weeks after the East African country was born out of a peace agreement between the government of Sudan...
Maryknoll priest finds accompanying people with HIV/AIDS in Lima, Peru, is approaching God In a low-ceilinged room of two-tone gray, Maryknoll Father Joseph Fedora spreads his arms and invites Mass-goers to offer their petitions to God. There are prayers for health, for family, and then one man...
|| By Giovana Soria The mission spirit guides a former Maryknoll student from Peru Like thousands of people in the world, Daniel Castellano jumped at the opportunity for a guestworker visa to the United States. He came, he saw but he didn’t conquer. Castellano’s dream of a well-paying job turned...
|| Story and photos by Sean Sprague Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Nairobi, Kenya, enables the deaf to “hear” Amid the joyful strains of a choir dressed in colorful East African robes and ululating dancers gyrating down the aisle of a church in Nairobi, Kenya, the first few rows of the...
|| By Shay Cullen, SSC Orphaned, destitute children in the Philippines face new danger from human traffickers Social worker Marlyn received a message that a 14-year old girl named “Princess” had been trafficked and sold to a sex bar here in the Philippines. Marlyn alerted me and we began planning...
|| By Margaret Gaughan Maryknoll’s nine newest lay missioners begin their journeys overseas Like parents the world over, Peter and Melissa Altman want what’s best for their children. That’s why the couple from Long Beach, N.Y., say they are taking their son, Eli, 7, and daughter Evey, 3, to...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Pope Francis and Peru’s bishops urge the immediate restoration of peace after more than 50 lives are lost due to political violence.
The cardinal and two archbishops of Myanmar send an open letter calling for protection after another church bombing last week.
As she reflects on the Mass readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, a Maryknoll sister recalls serving at the U.S./Mexico border.
Receiving a delegation of Buddhist monks from Cambodia, Pope Francis said that interreligious dialogue can promote care of creation.
Biden’s plan to address the surge of asylum-seekers “doesn’t address the problem of people coming by boats,” Miami’s archbishop says.
A priest’s death and the wounding of another is the latest attack in Nigeria's predominantly...
Veronica Schweyen, M.M. Sunday, January 15, 2023Is 49:3, 5-6 | 1 Cor 1:1-3 | Jn 1:29-34This...
Pope Francis begins a new series of catechesis in his weekly audiences focused on evangelization and apostolic zeal.
The death toll in violent protests in Peru and a harsh government crackdown climbs to more than 40 people since early December.
President Biden meets on the border with Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.
A Maryknoll lay missioner in El Paso, Texas, reflects on the readings for the Feast of the Epiphany, the what it means on the southern border.
An estimated 50,000 people fill St. Peter’s Square for former pope, Benedict XVI, who retired in 2013 and had requested his funeral be simple.
Pope Francis is scheduled to celebrate the funeral for his predecessor, retired Pope Benedict, on Jan. 5 in St. Peter’s Square.
Exiled Auxiliary Bishop of Managua Silvio José Baéz calls for solidarity as a wave of Catholic priests are arrested by the Ortega Administration.
|| By Larry Lewis, M.M. This fifth in our series of spirituality columns for 2014, reflecting on...
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.
Missioner Tales, May / June 2016 At the women’s prison in Macau, China, I was visiting one of the inmates who had recently arrived. “Where is your Bible?” she asked me. Since the prisoners I visit usually bring their own Scripture readings to discuss, I did not...
The World Watch column in our May/June 2014 issue opposing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to bring tar sands oil to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast generated a flurry of reader responses. Of...
