Our Fall issue focuses on healing and caregiving. Read how a brother in Bolivia ministers to orphaned children and abandoned elderly. Also in Bolivia, lay missioners serve people with disabilities. In Tanzania, an affiliate assists high-risk children. As newly ordained Father Joshua Maondo says, the world needs healing, and “that’s what mission is all about.”
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 Maryknoll lay missioner finds promise in young Cambodian students || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]By Maria Montello, MKLM[/googlefont] Raksmy was a bright student in my critical thinking skills class at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, where I teach poor...
Maryknoll sister welcomes migrants at a shelter on the U.S./Mexico border Karla La Torre, 29, fled her native Honduras with her four children and $50 her grandmother gave her to come to the United States. With tears in her eyes, she recalls the day when members of the notorious gang known...
Recently, Jesuit Father James Martin, Orbis book author (Essential Writings and This Our Exile), editor-at-large of America magazine and consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication, shared his thoughts on prayer, forgiveness and more with our senior marketing technologist, Adam...
Maryknoll priests and brothers donate personal funds to help resettle refugees in New York's Westchester County Six months after Leen Ali-Dib and her refugee family resettled in Pelham outside of New York City, they went to a local park to enjoy the July 4 fireworks. What should have been an...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Catholic dioceses in two countries coordinate to bring food, medicine and shelter materials to people displaced by military coup in Myanmar.
Sister Helen Prejean, who for decades has accompanied death row inmates and advocated against capital punishment, vows to carry on her mission.
A Maryknoll sister reflects on the readings for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time and the grace to see things more clearly in unexpected ways.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns sends a joint letter calling on President Biden to use diplomacy to avoid nuclear war.
Marking the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Pope Francis and other leaders of world religions make a plea for peace.
Human rights groups report that Haiti is paralyzed by violence perpetrated by criminal gangs, including acts of aggression against women.
Ghana’s Catholic bishops warn of “environmental coup d’état” from rampant destruction of the country’s natural resources via illegal mining.
A Maryknoll brother tells of lessons learned in mission as he reflects on Jesus’ teachings in the readings for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
As around 100 captured Ukrainian women return home in a prisoners exchange, Ukraine archbishop decries the abuse they endured.
Poor countries suffer more and developed countries bear more blame, says Congolese Cardinal Besungu, urging world leaders to take action.
At the U.S./Mexico border, Catholic organizations assist Venezuelans expelled under the controversial public health measure Title 42.
Returned lay missioners Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello will be honored with the Bishop McCarthy Award on World Mission Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.
A Maryknoll lay missioner serving in Tanzania reflects on cooperation and interdependence in the Mass readings for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai tells the Asian Bishops’ Conferences they should follow the model of CELAM in Latin America.
Misconceptions about the Immaculate Conception || By Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M. One of the more...
A group of lay people with "HIV-positive hearts" walk with Peruvians living with HIV. Gently touching Luis on the cheek, Yolanda Yactayo...
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.
In the March/April 2017 MARYKNOLL magazine, I wrote about a Guatemalan man, Antonio Perez, whose cataracts were so thick he was totally blind. Dr. Luz Galindo, the local eye doctor, and I worked to cure his eye infections and got him scheduled for cataract surgery....
Swiss NGO behind Herculean effort that led to vote on a nuclear ban treaty More than 70 years have passed since atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || [googlefont font=“Cormorant Infant" fontsize="20"]From Our Readers[/googlefont] DEEPLY MOVED The September/October 2017 issue is a real...
