From Cambodia to El Salvador, Bangladesh to Tanzania, Maryknoll missioners accompany people and communities affected by poverty and extreme poverty.
Based on our belief that each person is both sacred and social, created in God’s image, and destined to share in the goods of the Earth as part of a community of justice and mercy, we hear the cry of the poor and we are called to respond. From the time of the Old Testament to today, we recognize poverty as a common result of unjust oppression of those forced to live on the margins, prohibited from participating in society. We listen to our suffering brothers and sisters and we hear echoes of God’s frequent warnings to the Israelites in the Book of Exodus, of their duty to care for those who are poor, powerless, and excluded by society.
Embracing this duty, we advocate for social and economic change, to eliminate the roots causes of poverty found in unjust economic structures. We promote the globalization of solidarity, the enhancement of inclusive human security, and development that is rooted in social justice and ecological sustainability.
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As new frontlines in the Sudanese civil war worsen the humanitarian crisis, U.S. and U.N. agencies cuts international humanitarian funding. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Program Associate Fellow Mark Joyce reports.
On June 12, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would rescind $8.3 billion in foreign aid. This rescissions package would eliminate or reduce funding for programs that…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined the Interfaith Working Group on Foreign Assistance in this letter to the leadership on the Senate Committee on Appropriations to ask for the rejection of the House bill that rescinded over $8 billion dollars of foreign aid, with the potential to cause irreparable harm and human suffering.
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.
Development and Peace, Caritas Canada, in collaboration with Caritas Internationalis, is launching the “Relay of Hope,” a global candle-lighting campaign aimed at illuminating the path towards debt justice and economic transformation.
Like Jesus, we are weeping … in the Holy Land, in Ukraine, in Sudan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Myanmar, in the United States, in schools, homes and public spaces around the world. But this week, even as we prepare to retell the story of his Passion and Death, we hear Jesus say:…
The Parable of the Prodigal Son, this Sunday’s gospel reading, is a story so familiar that it is easy to feel immune to both the breadth and depth of its message. It is the story of three people, a father and his two sons, and the actions and reactions of each of them in an…
This reflection was published as part of the Lenten Reflection Guide: A Jubilee of Hope. The devil showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant. The devil said to Jesus, “I shall give you all this power and the glory… All this will be yours, if you worship me.” But Jesus…
This reflection was published as part of the Lenten Reflection Guide: A Jubilee of Hope. Today’s readings call the community of believers to pious communal actions demonstrating penitence and prayer for God’s deliverance. The admonitions against hypocrisy indicate that it is not the actions that are criticized but the underlying motivation for doing them. Almsgiving,…
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined more than 40 members of the Interfaith Working Group on Foreign Assistance in this letter to Congress raising grave concerns about the sudden order to stop lifesaving foreign assistance work around the globe and the dismantling of USAID.
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.
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.
Burdensome public debt in the continent has induced African youth to migrate for employment driving greater risks of exploitation and modern slavery.
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.
Join us for prayer this Lent with reflections on the readings from Ash Wednesday, March 5, through Palm Sunday, April 13. The 2025 Lenten Reflection Guide: Jubilee of Hope from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns contains reflections, questions, prayers, fasts, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading and the experience of Maryknoll missioners…
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