Nonviolence and the Web of Creation
The Earth can teach us how to be nonviolent and in right relationship with each other and all of Creation.
The Earth can teach us how to be nonviolent and in right relationship with each other and all of Creation.
Corporations and institutions like TIAA are pledging to achieve carbon neutrality but critics say net zero pledges delay meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases and provide cover to those unwilling to commit.
This is an excerpt from our two-page policy brief on climate change.
Pope Francis gathered religious leaders and scientists at the Vatican to issue an appeal to world leaders for urgent action at the COP26 UN Climate Talks.
Maryknoll missioners took actions to respond to the cry of the Earth leading up to the UN Climate Talks (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in November, 2021.
As Churches and church-based organizations we unequivocally reject this move and call on Secretary Blinken to both demand its immediate reversal and to insist on protection for Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns signed on to a comment to the Department of Homeland Security about proposed new regulations to exclude immigrants from access to core health, nutrition, and housing assistance programs.
This critical legislation calls for the suspension of security assistance to the Philippines until human rights violations cease and perpetrators are held responsible.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and more than 40 faith and civil society groups sent a letter to key members of Congress asking for their support of Amendment 152 to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to assess the humanitarian impacts of sanctions.
On World Food Day, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and more than 65 groups call for a more just approach to policy development and multilateralism by the United States.
In a letter laying out six demands, the groups reject TIAA’s promise to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as “greenwashing” and tell TIAA to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2025, and to immediately stop its acquisitions of farmland.
Immediate and sustained actions must be taken to mitigate the tremendous suffering and consequences of the occupation in Afghanistan and to ensure that future needless and costly wars are averted.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and more than 100 climate justice, farm and food justice, human rights and environmental organizations joined to reject “false climate solutions” from TIAA, the $1.3T financial giant which manages retirement accounts for about 5 million clients and pension funds around the world.
Este reflexión es parte del Guia de Reflexión del Adviento 2021. “Dichosa tú, que has creído, porque se cumplirá cuanto te fue anunciado de parte del Señor.” – Lucas 1: 45 En la primera lectura de este domingo, el profeta Miqueas proclama: “De ti, Belén de Efrata, pequeña entre las aldeas de Judá, de ti saldrá…
Este reflexión es parte del Guia de Reflexión del Adviento 2021.
“…porque Dios mostrará tu grandeza a cuantos viven bajo el cielo. Dios te dará un nombre para siempre:“Paz en la justicia y gloria en la piedad.” – Baruc 5: 3-4 En este segundo domingo de Adviento, las lecturas se centran en la preparación de la venida de Cristo mediante el arrepentimiento y el pedir la…
Este reflexión es parte del Guia de Reflexión del Adviento 2021.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns signed the following letter to President Biden by Catholic organizations urging him to rescind the use of the Title 42 health policy to rapidly expel migrants at the southern border.