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.
|| By Gladys Gonzalez, M.M. Maryknoll Sister uses therapeutic arts to restore life to women laborers Dar es Salaam is a rapidly expanding city. In the coming years this capital of Tanzania is expected to expand even more, with increased building and more economic opportunities. However,...
|| By Edward Hayes, M.M.; photos by Germaine Baibika A Maryknoll priest finds himself to be a wisdom figure in Africa Africa is a good place to be when one is “old.” Following a family trait, my hair started turning gray at an early age. I was in my early 40s and in the style in those days, I had...
|| By Margaret Gaughan Faced with the challenge of leading the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers through its centennial celebrations in 2011, Superior General Father Edward Dougherty was seeking advice. Without hesitation, he went to Mission St. Teresa, the Society’s nursing home on the grounds of...
|| By David Aquije Maryknoll Affiliates in Milwaukee are following their call to mission by providing services to refugees from Myanmar Poe Ru had to stop going to school to help his parents plant rice and vegetables in the small village in Myanmar where he grew up. Suffering as a member of an...
|| By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. Maryknoll Sisters begin a new mission with Sisters of Charity in Haiti The Maryknoll Sisters have a new mission in Haiti that began with a chance encounter. Shortly after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti in January 2010, Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth Knoerl...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Experts in Jewish-Catholic relations are hailing a new plan to combat antisemitism, released amid a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents.
Anger toward tribal Christians in India’s Manipur state has led to attacks on homes and Christian places of worship, archbishop says.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees live in dire poverty, say humanitarian workers, in spite of the Kenyan government’s Marshall Plan.
A Maryknoll sister reflects about the miracle of Pentecost and the promise of the Holy Spirit in moments of tribulation in life.
In Mexico’s worsening violence against clergy, Augustinian Father Javier García Villafaña, was killed days after an attack on an archbishop.
As Pentecost approaches, celebrated this year on May 28, Pope Francis encourages Christians to spread the Gospel and cites the example of Korean martyr St. Andrew Kim Taegon.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who says “war is a pandemic,” was appointed by the pope to lead a special initiative for peace in Ukraine.
Urging them to abandon nuclear weapons, Pope Francis sends a message to the G7 world leaders gathered in Hiroshima, Japan, May 19-21, 2023.
A Maryknoll priest who served in Venezuela reflects on what glorifying God really means in the upcoming Sunday Mass readings.
Citing missionary saints, Pope Francis encourages people, especially the young, to nurture missionary zeal through prayer and staying close to Christ.
Four decades after the Dirty War took tens of thousands of lives in Argentina, the Catholic Church publishes a report about its role amid disappearances and deaths.
Ugandan Church leaders organize efforts to stop the trafficking of Ugandans, notably women and girls, in the Middle East.
A mother from Venezuela, forced to flee the country with her young son, gives a firsthand account of her family’s ordeal in seeking asylum.
A Maryknoll lay missioner serving in Bolivia reflects on the upcoming Sunday’s Mass readings in the context of Christian hope.
|| By Betty Ann Maheu, M.M. Every year on August 15 thousands of Catholics in China make their way...
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 am a retired critical care nurse. One evening I had a patient who had had a very severe heart attack, and his life ebbed away. I knew this man as I'd had him as a patient many times before. That evening he was extremely agitated, and I suspected fearful, as his...
On Aug. 6, the Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration, in which, as the Gospel tells us, in the presence of three disciples, Jesus’ face shone like the sun and his clothes became white...
