Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation in Jubilee 2025
Join a nationwide initiative to inspire community prayer walks for healing, faith, and creation care.
Peru: Justice for Indigenous Protestors Killed by Police
Human rights organizations in Peru win in court on behalf of the victims of a massacre at political protests more than two years ago.
Justice for Immigrants Says, “Protect the Persecuted!”
Our friends at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops prepared the following action to urging the protection of refugees.
Lenten Reflection Guide: A Jubilee of Hope
The guide, inspired by the 2025 Jubilee Year campaign for debt relief, offers reflections, small group questions, prayers, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading. Lent begins this year on Ash Wednesday, March 5.
United States Cuts Short Deportation Protections for Haitians
Haitian advocates call on the Trump administration to reverse its decision to terminate protection from deportation for half a million Haitians in in the United States.
Letter from Pope Francis and Reply from U.S. Catholic Bishops
Pope Francis took the unusual step of publishing an open letter to the Catholic Bishops of the United States to thank them for their work for migrants and refugees and urge their steadfastness in their defense of the dignity in the face of political pressure and initiation of a program of mass deportation. The letter and the response from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ President that came the day after, are below.
Africa: 2025 Is a Critical Juncture
The Brookings Institute’s Foresight Africa report concludes that 2025 a critical year to address the urgent issues facing the fastest growing continent. The following is an excerpt from the report.
African Migrant Laborers Need Jubilee
Burdensome public debt in the continent has induced African youth to migrate for employment driving greater risks of exploitation and modern slavery.
Maryknoll Leaders Tell G20: Turn Debt Into Hope
More than 120 global faith leaders, including the leadership of the Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners, took the first step in the Jubilee 2025 Turn Debt into Hope campaign on Feb. 26 when they sent the following letter to the G20 finance ministers meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
Maryknoll Leadership Joins Letter to G20 Finance Minister Negotiators Urging Debt Relief
The leadership of the three Maryknoll entities, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, Maryknoll Sisters, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners, joined 120 global faith leaders in a letter to G20 finance ministers on the global debt crisis urging them to champion debt cancellation, debt reform, and establish a UN Debt Convention.
Resources
The following was published in the November-December 2024 issue of NewsNotes.