65 national religious groups, academics, ministers urge alternatives to U.S. military action in Iraq
The following letter was sent on August 27, 2014.
Israel-Palestine: Maryknoll urges immediate end to violence
On Tuesday, July 22, the following letter was sent to President Obama (and copied to members of Congress); it was signed by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and several other members of the Faith Forum.
Urgent: Stop cuts to refugee services; help unaccompanied children
The following alert is circulated by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Gaza in crisis, updated August 20
Fr. Jack Sullivan MM has prepared the following round-up of information about the current crisis in Palestine and Israel.
Free trade: Threat to food safety, security
Alex Bianco, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns’ Faith Economy Ecology project, contributed to this article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Detainees held in “iceboxes”
Brittany McKinley, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, contributed to this article which was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Migration: Crisis on two borders
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) recently published Mexico’s Other Border Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis between Guatemala and Mexico.
UN: Report on fifth biennial meeting on SALW
The following article, written by Sr. Claris Zwareva, was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Iraq: Urgent need for regional political solution
The following piece was submitted by Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International, and published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Thailand: Military coup disrupts democracy
The following article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Japan: Bishops condemn Article 9 reversal
The following article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Philippines: Building resilient communities
The following article, written by Maryknoll Sr. Marvie Misolas, was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit
The following article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Sudan: War in the north continues
The following article includes an update from Fr. Tom Tiscornia, a Maryknoll missioner who serves in Sudan.
Guatemala: Resurgence of impunity
The following article was written by Eben Levey, who has served as an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns since September 2013.
Ecuador: Forest-saving proposal scrapped
Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa recently placed the final nail in the coffin of his 2007 Yasuni-ITT proposal to preserve a pristine nature and indigenous reserve. In early June he declared that the proposal had failed and he would open the area to oil extraction by Petroamazonas, a subsidiary of Ecuador’s national petroleum company Petroecuador.
El Salvador: Struggles continue around mining
The following article was prepared by Maryknoll lay missioner Joe Hastings, who lives and serves in El Salvador. It was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Chile: Government rejects mega-dam project
The following article was prepared by Richard Coaxum, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns’ Faith Economy Ecology project. It was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.