Maryknoll Lay Missioners: ‘Here I Am, Send Me’
Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ newest class is commissioned and sent to Tanzania, El Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Kenya and the U.S./Mexico border.
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Tag: Brazil
Church in Brazil Shelters Victims of Mudslides
The Church organizes aid campaign, shelters people who lost their homes in mudslides caused by Brazil’s worst storms in the last 70 years.
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Latin American Bishops to Hear from Indigenous Communities
CELAM meeting is an opportunity for Latin America’s Indigenous peoples to highlight their role within the church and society.
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Missioner Tales, Fall 2021
Missioners offer snippets of mission life in Brazil, Bangladesh, South Sudan and Nicaragua as well as at the Maryknoll Sisters center in New York.
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Smiles and Tears in São Paulo’s Favelas
Serving in São Paulo, Brazil, Margarita Durán has found that building new relationships and friendships is the most rewarding part of being a lay missioner.
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Brazil Sees Rapid Rise in Land Conflicts, Catholic Agency Reports
Land disputes in Brazil intensify under President Jair Bolsonaro, and involve more than 80,000 families, many of whom are of indigenous people.
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Missioner Tales, Summer 2021
St. Justin Centre for Children with Disabilities is a place here in Musoma, Tanzania, where you...
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Brazilian Bishops’ Lenten Campaign Draws Fire From Conservatives
Campaign that defends indigenous peoples, criticizes rampant femicide and condemns violence against LGBTQ draws ire of some Brazilian bishops.
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Latin American Church Leaders: Get Vaccines, Prioritize the Vulnerable
In Latin America many countries have had difficulties obtaining vaccines as wealthier nations have...
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Missioner Tales, Winter 2021
I first met Jose when he participated in my first Theater of the Oppressed group in a parish on...
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Brazil’s Yanomami Ask OAS for Help Keeping Out Miners, COVID-19
The Hutukara Yanomami Association and Brazil’s National Council for Human Rights petitioned the Organization of American States to issue a restraining order for the Brazilian government, so illegal miners and gold miners withdraw from indigenous land.
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Pandemic Increases Child Abuse in Latin America
Child abuse is on the rise in Latin American countries affected by COVID-19 Catholic missionaries...
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