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.
Hope for Nuclear Disarmament
As the Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight than ever before, nations meet in New York to work toward banning nuclear weapons, and arms control advocates urge Trump Administration to follow up on “denuclearization” comments.
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.
Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Secretary of State Rubio urging Reinstatement of Foreign Aid
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined a letter with faith-based groups to newly-appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to request that he restore foreign aid programs, reopen critical refugee resettlement programs, and fully reinstate USAID. Read this letter as a PDF. February 14, 2025 Dear Secretary Rubio, Congratulations on your confirmation as Secretary of State. This…
Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Trump Administration Urging Renewal of Refugee Resettlement
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 1,051 faith leaderss and 176 organizations in writing to the Trump Administration asking for the resumption of refugee resettlement, restoration of humanitarian assistance, and assurance that the faith community can take care of newcomers according to their traditions. Read the letter as a PDF. February 13, 2025 Dear President…
Letter of the Holy Father Francis to the Bishops of the United States
Pope Francis addresses U.S. bishops, urging them to uphold the dignity of migrants. He criticizes policies that equate illegal status with criminality while acknowledging a nation’s right to security and calls for compassion, integration, and respect for fundamental rights. Read the letter as a PDF and on the Vatican website. February 10, 2025 Dear Brothers…
Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Trump Urging Improvement in U.S. Relations with North Korea
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 38 other faith and civic organizations in a letter to President Trump urging him to work on improving relations with North Korea, including by formally ending the Korean war. Read this letter as a PDF. January 29, 2025 Dear President Trump, The undersigned coalition of national organizations write to…
Maryknoll Missioner Speaks Out for PEPFAR in New York Times
Sept. 5, 2023 Be sure to read Maryknoll Fr. Rick Bauer’s guest opinion piece in The New York Times about witnessing lives saved from HIV/AIDS in Africa thanks to access to treatment and prevention generously given by the United States over the last twenty years through a program called PEPFAR. “As a pro-life man of faith, I…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Responds to Trump Day One Executive Orders
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the executive orders signed by President Trump on the first day of his second term, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns offered the following statement from its director, Susan Gunn. “The executive orders signed by President Trump make us ask how will the…
Resources
Webinar: “Guantánamo Uncovered” A conversation with the New York Times’ Serial Podcast and staff from the Center for Victims of Torture on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 7pm et. https://mogc.info/GU-1-9-25 Op-ed: Deportation plan must not raid churches, separate families, by Christian leaders published by The Arizona Republic. https://mogc.info/RF-Deportations Statement: “Rabbis Call on U.S. to Stop Transfer…