In an open letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, Maryknoll Office for Global concerns joined a coalition led by Back from the Brink: The Call to Prevent Nuclear War in a message in support of a House Resolution urging a reversal of the nuclear arms race.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined the Interfaith Working Group on Foreign Assistance of the Washington Interfaith Staff Community to write to the Senate and the Senate’s leadership on the Committee on Appropriations to ask for the rejection of the House bill that rescinded over $8 billion dollars of foreign aid, with the potential to cause irreparable harm and human suffering.
The executive branch has waged legal warfare against the legal designations that protect people from deportation back to the dangerous countries they have fled. Immigration Advocacy Intern Rehema Klueg reports.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns was among 200+ NGOs calling for an immediate end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme in Gaza and revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 11 religiously-affiliated organizations that provide support to immigrants in writing to the U.S. Court of Appeals on the side of Plaintiffs, immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who are challenging Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s decision to end humanitarian parole.
The statement below, published June 24, 2025, addresses the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and U.S. use of force. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is a CMEP member.
Civilians in Sudan face unprecedented hunger and displacement as the United States cuts humanitarian assistance.
Peace and international affairs experts criticized President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran in support of Israel’s war.
From his first public words as pontiff to the recent response to the bombing of Iran, the new pope prioritizes nonviolent peacemaking and resistance to war.
Burdensome debt payments prevent more than 40 percent of countries in the Global South from responding to social and development needs. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Program Associate Fellow Mark Joyce reports.
Advocates met in Calgary, Canada, ahead of the G7 summit to discuss the 2025 Jubilee debt relief campaign.
The U.S.-Qatari negotiated peace accord swaps war for resource mining.
As the U.S. federal government exits the Paris Agreement, faith organizations in the United States affirm their commitment to the 2014 international climate change treaty.
The U.S. budget proposal passed by the House of Representatives includes anti-immigrant policies. Immigration Advocacy Intern Rehema Klueg reports.
World leaders met in Nice, France, from June 9-13, to discuss sustainability of the world’s oceans. Maryknoll Sister Margaret Lacson and Maryknoll Father John Sivalon report back.
On May 29, the Bishops’ Conference of El Salvador released a pastoral letter urging, among other things, an end to the state of exception that suspends civil liberties and an end to the detention of migrants from other countries.
Advocates called for an end to the Korean war for the 75th anniversary of its start.
The Trump Administration announced it will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) early for about 500,000 Haitians living in the United States, exposing them to deportation as soon as Sept. 2. This comes three months after the Trump Administration revoked legal protections for thousands of Haitians who arrived legally in the country under a humanitarian parole program.
