Climate change is at the center of the environmental challenges facing the global community. Maryknoll missioners around the world witness firsthand the devastating impacts of the changing climate, most egregiously on those who have contributed least to climate change, communities that are poor, powerless, and pushed to the margins by society.
We educate for environmental justice by first clarifying and deepening our own comprehension of these insights: that every creature has the right to be; the right to its habitat; and the right to make its own contribution to all of life. We believe that the global failure to protect our Common Home has become, in reality, a simultaneous assault on the poor and a form of environmental racism.
Maryknoll Leadership Statement on Pope Francis’ encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home“
MARYKNOLL REFLECTIONS ON LAUDATO SI: Ecological conversion: Called to hope, spurred to action
POLICY BRIEF: Climate Change and Care for Creation
WEBINAR: Climate Change and the 2020 Elections
ARTICLE: Maryknoll Missioners Take Climate Action
SPECIAL PROGRAM: Integral Ecology Program
NEWSLETTER: Encounters Where Faith, Economy, Ecology Meet
Join us in Washington, DC as we participate in the Relay of Hope: a global public action taking place May 24-28 in a call to end the debt crisis. We will gather in the United Methodist Building for breakfast, the lighting of our candle and reflection on turning debt into hope, before proceeding to the US…
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.
As the G7 Leaders’ Summit convenes in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17, 2025, a parallel gathering—the G7 Jubilee People’s Forum—will unfold in Calgary, offering a platform for global citizens to envision a more equitable world.
On March 18, church leaders in El Salvador presented 150,000 signatures of citizens to the Legislative Assembly on March 18, urging the restoration of the metal mining ban.
With an executive order and broad interpretations of a 1980 law, the U.S. government now claims authority to issue mining permits in waters outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Despite the United States’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, non-federal U.S. institutions, communities, and economic sectors remain committed to reducing emissions as part of a nationwide, collaborative effort.
After three decades of negotiations over the climate impact of shipping, nations reached a landmark deal to make ship owners pay for their emissions and transition to cleaner fuels.
Earth Day takes on special meaning this year, arriving as it does at the beginning of the Easter Season, and amid global mourning for Pope Francis. Choosing the name of…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns co-signed a letter with 31 other faith-based groups urging each Senator and Representative to oppose repeal of clean energy tax credits in the upcoming reconciliation process.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined an international multi-faith declaration on our spiritual charge to care for and protect our oceans. The declaration will be presented to the United…
For the second time in eight years, President Trump submitted the notification for the United States to leave the international accord that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.
Join a nationwide initiative to inspire community prayer walks for healing, faith, and creation care.
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.
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…
Register for the Catholic Pilgrims of Hope for Creation virtual launch party, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 9am ET.In the midst of the ecological disasters we see all around us, as…
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…
The UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, will be remembered as the moment climate advocates stayed strong in the face of weak commitments from wealthy, polluting nations. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. The global association of 198 member states that gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan…
Sara Kennel, climate advocacy intern, shares the outcomes of the UN conference on biodiversity. The following article was published in the January – February 2025 issue of NewsNotes. In the very last hours of the 16th bi-annual UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, a celebration ensued with enthusiastically raised hands, tears, hugs, and chants…
