Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and our partners in CIDSE express solidarity Catholic priest Charles Kitima of Tanzania, who was brutally attacked in Dar es Salaam earlier in the week.
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As the G7 Leaders’ Summit convenes in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17, 2025, a parallel gathering—the G7 Jubilee People’s Forum—will unfold in Calgary, offering a platform for global citizens to envision a more equitable world.
The following is a brief excerpt from an article published on Apr. 28 on the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns website. https://mogc.me/PF
The global policy-making body dedicated to promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls met at UN headquarters in New York in March.
Development and Peace, Caritas Canada, in collaboration with Caritas Internationalis, is launching the “Relay of Hope,” a global candle-lighting campaign aimed at illuminating the path towards debt justice and economic transformation.
With an executive order and broad interpretations of a 1980 law, the U.S. government now claims authority to issue mining permits in waters outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Weapons and fighters from nearby countries continue to flow into Sudan, allowing the conflict to persist and the world’s largest humanitarian crisis to grow.
A fragile peace deal in South Sudan collapsed Mar. 27 after the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, threatened to throw the country back into war.
Mass incarceration has expanded and democratic governance deteriorated in El Salvador since the state of exception began three years ago.
On March 18, church leaders in El Salvador presented 150,000 signatures of citizens to the Legislative Assembly on March 18, urging the restoration of the metal mining ban.
Nearly a year into the US-backed, international police mission in Haiti, the island nation is still mired in violence.
People from around the United States are invited to participate in Korea Peace Advocacy Week June 9-13, during a fraught time on the Korean Peninsula.
Despite the United States’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, non-federal U.S. institutions, communities, and economic sectors remain committed to reducing emissions as part of a nationwide, collaborative effort.
After three decades of negotiations over the climate impact of shipping, nations reached a landmark deal to make ship owners pay for their emissions and transition to cleaner fuels.
U.S. foreign aid cuts threaten to turn back global HIV/AIDS progress to the dark ages of the epidemic, researchers say in The Lancet.
Clumsy implementation of tariff policy subjects nations like Lesotho, Kenya, and South Africa to economic duress.
Two leading fair-trade experts, Lori Wallach and David Korten, look at what is broken in the global economy and what tariffs can and cannot do to help.
