The following is a compilation of resources to help voters prepare for the 2020 U.S. elections. Faithful Voting and Global Concerns The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns offers a series of two-page briefs, Faithful Voting and Global Concerns, on global issues to help voters prepare for the 2020 U.S. elections. Find the entire series here. Conscience and Voting: Read…
Palm Sunday excerpt from the 2020 Lenten Reflection Guide.
The Fifth Sunday of Lent excerpt from the 2020 Lenten Reflection Guide.
Fourth Sunday of Lent excerpt from the 2020 Lenten Reflection Guide.
The Third Sunday of Lent excerpt from the 2020 Lenten Reflection Guide.
The Second Sunday of Lent excerpt from the 2020 Lenten Guide.
The First Sunday of Lent excerpt from the 2020 Lenten Guide.
Find the entire reflection guide here. “When you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to God in secret.” – Matthew 6: 6 In this season of Lent, we are invited to step back and closely examine our lives and our hearts. It is not an invitation to a mere moment…
The following statement was released on January 29, 2020 regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the changes to the public charge rule which bars immigrants who are recieving certain government benefits from gaining legal immigration status.
The Faith4Asylum campaign was launched January 29, 2020 by MOGC and its partners in the Interfaith Immigration Coalition. The following is a statement released to mark the launch of the campaign and the first anniversary of the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
World Water Day is March 22. This year’s theme is Water and Climate Change.
Find resources for Lent, for Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2020, on peace in South Sudan, and much more.
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), a coalition of faith-based organizations working for peace in Israel/Palestine of which the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is a member, released the following statement on November 20 on recent decisions regarding Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined other faith-based and immigrant advocacy organizations in gathering to pray and protest on the anniversary of the death of Jakelin Caal Maquin, a child migrant who died after being taken into U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody.
Korea Peace Now!, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War, commissioned an international and multidisciplinary panel of independent experts to assess the human cost of sanctions on North Korea, and particularly on North Korean women. The following is the executive summary of the 48-page report.
This article describes the numerous ways the geoengineering technology of solar radiation management is a false solution to the climate crisis.
A new film entitled ‘The Report’ depicts the decade-long, Senate investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture program.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi defended the government of Burma (Myanmar) against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice in the Hague in December, despite graphic evidence to the contrary. Kenneth Wong, a Burmese-American writer and lecturer at the University of Berkeley wrote about it on his blog https://kennethwongsf.blogspot.com/, which is reprinted here with permission.
