The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is pleased to announce the launch of Encounters, an email newsletter focused on challenges posed by the current economic growth paradigm and on the hopeful ways communities are responding to protect human dignity and God’s beautiful Creation.
The following article by Gabe Huck was published in the July 2014 issue of Celebration, a worship resource published by National Catholic Reporter.
Maryknoll applauds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its June 2, 2014 announcement to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants.
On May 28, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered a Dear Colleague letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry articulating concerns and worries about the high levels of violence and impunity that plague Honduras.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 17 other organizations in signing a statement expressing concern about the recent beating of Casa Alianza in Honduras.
China has seen a huge increase in industrialization and growth in exports since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns team members Susan Gunn and Eben Levey participated as election observers for the March 9 presidential run-off. The following is a report on their experience.
What is happening in Venezuela, rocked since early February by weeks of almost daily protests?
Ecuadoran social movements have successfully pressured their government to embark on a historic process to “remake the roots of Ecuador’s economy and thereby begin the transition into a society of free and open knowledge.”
On March 27, the Philippine government signed a historic peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), granting the southern Mindanao region political autonomy in exchange for laying down their arms and ending their demand for a separate Islamic state.
Why is there an Asia Pivot and why did President Obama declare the U.S. a Pacific power?
The following article was written by Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International and former director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (MOGC).
Sr. Meg Gallagher, MM attended the 58th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), held in March at UN headquarters in New York; its priority theme was “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] for women and girls.” Following are excerpts from her report.
The following is an excerpt from a letter sent by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, expressing the bishops’ concern about the U.S.’s immigration enforcement policies.
The following article looks at the paperless “information economy” and its connection to resource use.
Cathy Rowan contributed this article for the May-June 2014 NewsNotes.
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On April 11, Carlos Mejía Orellana, a radio journalist and staff member at the Jesuit-sponsored community radio station Radio Progreso, was attacked and stabbed to death in his home in the town of El Progreso.
