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.
Maryknoll Leadership Statement: Trading in justice: The local impact of global economic decisions
WEBINAR: U.S. Trade Policy – Putting People and Planet First
PRAYER: Virtual Good Friday Way of the Cross for Economic and Ecological Justice
POLICY BRIEF: End the Pandemic Through Global Vaccine Access
SPECIAL PROGRAM: Integral Ecology Program
NEWSLETTER: Encounters Where Faith, Economy, Ecology Meet
PRESS STATEMENT: Faith communities call for a new trade model
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over 100 religious leaders and faith-based organizations globally in calling on leaders of the World Health Organization to secure equity commitments to protect all populations everywhere from future pandemics.
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Stephen Veryser compares our annual commemorations of Easter to the to the smell of fresh rainfall or the jar of perfumed oil poured on Jesus’ head in the Gospel readings.
Sign up for the live zoom event for the annual Good Friday Way of the Cross for Peace and Justice, sponsored by Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and other Catholic and faith groups in Washington, DC.
Maryknoll Sister Margaret Lacson reports some observations on the UN annual meetings to foster social development and justice.
The Brookings Institution published the 2024 edition of Foresight Africa, offering a positive outlook for the continent despite serious challenges.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over a hundred international, national, regional, state and local faith groups in calling on members of congress to pass the FOREST Act of 2023, which would prevent the importation of goods produced by illegal deforestation practices.
The bipartisan bill will prohibit the importation of products sourced through illegal deforestation.
There is a global movement to build a just and sustainable economy that prioritizes people and planet over profit.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution urging Tanzania to immediately halt ongoing forcible evictions of Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral lands.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined a group of twenty organizations in writing to Congress on the unprecedented levels of acute hunger in the island nation of Haiti due to increased costs of imports, drought, and government neglect of agriculture. U.S. assistance, from the Farm Bill and USAID, should go to existing local and small-scale farms and agricultural organizations to promote food sovereignty over food dependence.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, in coordination with seven other Catholic groups, delivered a letter to President Biden, Treasury Secretary Yellen, and Secretary of State Blinken bearing signatures from over a thousand Catholics, requesting that debt forgiveness and restructuring be part of COP28 climate agenda.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined Public Citizen, the AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and 200+ Organizations to urge Biden to Terminate Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Provisions in Existing U.S. Trade and Investment Agreements. ISDS is used by corporations to litigate against government over local environmental laws.
The drastic decline in world food security and nutrition in recent years drives home the urgency of confronting the root cause – inequality. Maryknoll Fr. Ken Thesing reports from the UN in Rome.
Unsustainably high debt obligations complicate the African continent’s efforts to confront climate change and promote economic and social development.
On October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis released Laudate Deum, a follow-up to his landmark encyclical Laudato Si’. Here are some points in Laudate Deum that stood out to us.
Church and community leaders in Latin America met in Panama to strengthen their efforts to protect communities from exploitative extractive industries.
Click here to sign the faith letter to world leaders asking for a robust Loss and Damage Fund. One great injustice of the climate crisis is the fact that poor…
Key points from the follow-up to Laudato Si’
