Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 63 other organizations joined at letter urging the Senate to reject these cuts and instead safeguard and invest in international climate finance as well as critical funding for peace building, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration and poverty-focused development assistance.
Prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC, more than 200 global bishops and Christian leaders, including Sr. Teresa Hougnon, president of the Maryknoll Sisters and Susan Gunn, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, call for world leaders to institute a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, halt of offensive arms sales to Israel, and prevention of a broader regional war.Â
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 34 other faith organizations in a letter to the trade representatives negotiating trade in the Western Hemisphere asking for the removal of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms from existing trade and investment agreements.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 65 other organizations in a letter to the Chair and Ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senators Christopher Coons and Lindsey Graham, requesting funding for peacebuilding, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration, international climate finance, poverty-focused development assistance in the upcoming Fiscal Year of 2025.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 25 other organizations in a faith letter to President Biden expressing concern for the dire situation in Sudan and requesting further action.
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Political maneuvering over the five-year-long bill may result in a deferred renewal.
A highly regarded human rights organization warns that world power intervention may be needed for truce.
The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act in short order, largely along party lines, despite calls from faith groups and others to divert spending to human needs.
Legislation in the state of New York has the potential to ease the international sovereign debt crisis for countries around the world, including Kenya.
Maryknoll missioners joined Indigenous people at the UN calling for greater attention to their self-determination, needs of Indigenous youth, and financing opportunities.
An executive order effectively closes the U.S. southern border to people seeking asylum.
Maryknoll Fr. Joy Tajonera served as the lead organizer and host of the three-day International Conference on Fisher’s Welfare in the Chinese city of Taichung this past May.
The preparatory conference for COP 29, held in Bonn, Germany, stalled over questions of financing.
UN authorities and environmental experts struggle to confront the threats posed by underwater mining.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Bob Cunningham reflects on his recently restarted prison ministry in El Salvador’s state of emergency. This article was originally published by the Maryknoll Lay Missioners on May 20, 2024.
Jake Johnston offers analysis of the launch of the Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti.
Thousands of U.S. Catholics have signed an open letter to Pres. Biden calling for a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza as threats of starvation grow in the Palestinian enclave.
