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 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...
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...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
A new report from the Pew Research Center shows steady trends of loss, with young Latinos less likely to identify as Catholic.
Children are working as part of the agricultural labor force, sometimes enduring long hours and grueling conditions.
A Maryknoll sister who served in Chile and Sudan reflects on “seeing the Lord” in the readings for the Second Sunday of Easter and in our own lives of service.
For Christians in Nigeria, including a mother with a harrowing story of loss and survival, Jesus’ Cross gives meaning to their everyday suffering.
Pope Francis says sharing the Gospel requires literally “going out” and not just being “keyboard warriors” who argue with others online.
Attacks by Muslim extremists on Christian communities in Nigeria have left scores of casualties during the days leading up to Easter.
During his Easter address, Pope Francis prayed that the joy of Easter would break through “the gloom” of war.
A former superior general of Maryknoll shares a reflection on the Mass readings for Easter Sunday, focusing on Mary Magdalene in the gospel.
Pope Francis compares Holy Week spirituality to spring cleaning and also calls for prayers for mothers who suffer today in our world.
Responding to calls from Indigenous leaders, the Vatican repudiates concepts in papal bulls from the Conquest that led to the “Doctrine of Discovery.”
This reflection for Palm Sunday comes from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Lenten Reflection Guide 2023: Inspired by Laudato Si’
The imprisoned Nicaraguan prelate, Bishop Rolando Álvarez, is allowed a meal with his siblings and then interviewed in a staged TV broadcast.
Jesus’ compassion is revealed in the Mass readings for the Fifth Sunday of Lent and emphasized in the Lenten Reflection Guide by Maryknoll’s Office for Global Concerns.
Protests by mostly rural, indigenous Peruvians reflect frustration with urban governing politicians, says Maryknoll Sister Patricia Ryan who has worked for over 50 years in Peru’s Altiplano.
|| 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...
