A Maryknoll priest helps Small Christian Communities in Kenya get online during pandemic crisis || When the Kenyan government ordered the country into lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus earlier this year, Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey remembered a quote from the movie The Sound of Music:...
Almost 25,000 people affected, 28 reported dead, from storms in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala || WASHINGTON (CNS) — As if battling a pandemic weren’t enough, three of the poorest countries in Central America now are having to simultaneously face the aftermath of strong tropical storms....
Caritas official warns that the first COVID-19 fatality has spread fear in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps || The first death from COVID-19 in one of the world’s largest refugee camps has put the authorities, aid groups and ethnic Rohingya community in Bangladesh on high alert. A 71-year-old...
WEB-ONLY: In World Mission Sunday message, Pope Francis highlights God’s call to bear witness to his love || VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While isolation, social distancing and economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic prove to be a challenge, Christians are called by God to take part in the church’s...
Latin America has reported nearly 1 million cases and about 50,000 deaths from COVID-19 || LIMA, Peru (CNS) — Diego Ramirez, a single father in a rural village in southern Guatemala, worked in a restaurant and kept a chicken farm, selling the birds in a market to support his three daughters. Then...
Lockdowns in host countries leave Venezuelan migrants more vulnerable to hardship || The Vatican’s leading diplomat has warned that Venezuelan migrants and refugees are facing a “humanitarian disaster” as lockdowns in host nations leave them without jobs and force some to return home...
Child abuse is on the rise in Latin American countries affected by COVID-19 || Catholic missionaries in Latin America say they have noticed disturbing signs of an increase in child abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. The social turmoil provoked by the disease and some of the restrictions imposed by governments...
WEB-ONLY FEATURE: At the same ceremony, Seminarian John Siyumbu renews his vows and brother candidate Paul Shultz makes his first oath || Father Alejandro Marina, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took his permanent oath as a Maryknoll missionary priest on May 25, 2020. He is the first foreign-born priest...
Coronavirus exacerbates suffering of Navajo Nation and other Native American communities || Few places in the U.S. have been more vulnerable to the wrath of the coronavirus than the sovereign tribal territories of the country’s first dwellers. Long before COVID-19 came into being, lack of running...
The ability of citizens to regulate themselves has allowed Japan to end its COVID-19 emergency early || The counter-offensive in the successful battle against COVID-19 in Asia came in the form of digital technologies and large-scale testing, especially in countries such as Singapore, Taiwan and South...
