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.
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...
|| By Shay Cullen, SSC Orphaned, destitute children in the Philippines face new danger from human traffickers Social worker Marlyn received a message that a 14-year old girl named “Princess” had been trafficked and sold to a sex bar here in the Philippines. Marlyn alerted me and we began planning...
|| By Margaret Gaughan Maryknoll’s nine newest lay missioners begin their journeys overseas Like parents the world over, Peter and Melissa Altman want what’s best for their children. That’s why the couple from Long Beach, N.Y., say they are taking their son, Eli, 7, and daughter Evey, 3, to...
|| By Edward M. Dougherty, M.M. Maryknoll Superior General reflects on how two popes to be canonized this spring have influenced his life Few people ever get the chance to travel with a saint. I did! In September 1988 I was in the contingent of international church people and journalists that...
|| By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M., Photos by Rosemarie Milazzo, M.M. A Maryknoll Sister joins other Christians in peacemaking in Iraqi Kurdistan After decades of missionary work in Tanzania and Kenya, Maryknoll Sister Rosemarie Milazzo feels called to a new mission: building peace with an ecumenical...
|| By Lynn F. Monahan When Maryknoll Father Joseph Thaler started helping workers in the brick factories outside of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, young women were regularly being lured out of the brickyards and trafficked into the sex trade in neighboring India. “Nepal is a country where a lot...
|| By Lynn F. Monahan A Maryknoll priest helps bring healthcare and education to Nepal’s brickworks Kathmandu is a city of brick. From the houses and shops of the Nepali capital’s sprawling neighborhoods to the extensive temples of its classical period, the city is a vast warren of earthen hues...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
As the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy approaches, the Church takes stock of his dynamic global pastoral leadership.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shares a reflection on the Transfiguration from its 2023 Lenten series inspired by Laudato Si’.
The dictatorship in Nicaragua bans public enactment in the streets of the traditional Via Crucis or Way of the Cross.
Killed in an act of violence, Bishop David O’Connell is recalled for his dedication to pastoral care in Los Angeles’ poorest parishes.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shares a reflection from its Lenten Reflection series inspired by Laudato Si’.
As Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Catholic leaders discuss the Church’s response to the crisis.
On Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his teaching on evangelization and mission, noting that divisions are overcome by the Holy Spirit.
The tiny country of Myanmar has become the world’s second most prolific purveyor of opium, according to a U.N. report.
A returned lay missioner recalls experiences in Tanzania as he reflects on this Sunday’s Mass readings calling listeners to holiness.
The shrine to a priest killed in Guatemala, the first U.S.-born martyr formally recognized by the Church, will be dedicated Feb. 17.
Catholic charity organizations mobilize millions in relief aid for Syria and Turkey after an earthquake that killed more than 40,000 people.
A report referring to global data from a papal foundation compiles names of more than 100 priests and sisters kidnapped or killed last year.
Bishop Rolando Álvarez was sentenced to prison in Nicaragua after defying President Daniel Ortega by refusing to go into exile.
A Maryknoll priest in South Sudan accompanies those displaced by war to meet with the visiting pontiff.
|| By Betty Ann Maheu, M.M. The fourth in our series of spirituality columns for 2014 reflecting...
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...
