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
In a series of two-page briefs, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns addresses key global issues which are the focus of our work in Washington, DC, and at the UN. Inspired by the Gospel and Maryknoll missioners’ commitment to stand with vulnerable communities around the world, we offer these briefs as resources on the intersection…
Environmental leaders face intimidation and violence around the world for speaking out in defense of their communities, the water and the land. Central America, and Honduras in particular, remained the…
Sarah Bueter, a Maryknoll lay missioner in El Salvador, reflects on the murder of Honduran environmental defender Juan Lopez and her recent visit to his grieving community of Tocoa as part of an emergency delegation organized by the SHARE Foundation. 27 September 2024 It was only when I saw his photo up on the wall,…
October 4 is the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, and also the last day in the Season of Creation, the ecumenical season wherein we renew our commitment to…
The second of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns U.S. elections webinars, Faithful Stewardship of Creation, begins on Wednesday, October 9, at 6pm ET | 3pm PT. Click here to…
Lisa Sullivan, Integral Ecology senior program officer, and Sara Kennel, climate advocacy intern, cover the environmental concerns the next U.S. President must confront. This webinar, held on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 is part of our webinar series in anticipation of the United States 2024 elections. Check your voter registration at www.vote.gov See our policy brief,…
September 2024 Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 23 other organizations in a policy brief on biodiversity: Protecting the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to Halt Biodiversity Loss. The policy brief notes the importance of addressing biodiversity loss while also emphasizing the role of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ knowledge in protecting…
With the United States elections on November 5 around the corner, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns seeks to address some key policy areas that are at stake. For the month…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns will hold webinars on policy issues relevant to the United States elections, which are only two months away.
The month of September is celebrated as the Season of Creation by people of faith from around the world.
Progress made, but significant hurdles still remain, toward protections for the sea bed against exploitation by Deep-Sea Mining.
An update on the Sustainable Development Goals shows not enough progress made on the improvement targets.
The Season of Creation begins Sunday! People of faith from around the world celebrate September as the ecumenical Season of Creation, where we renew our commitment to care for our…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 63 other organizations joined at letter urging the Senate to reject these cuts and instead safeguard and invest in international climate finance as well as critical funding for peace building, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration and poverty-focused development assistance.
When Congress returns from recess next month, make sure they know to pass international climate finance in the 2025 budget.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 34 other faith organizations in a letter to the trade representatives negotiating trade in the Western Hemisphere asking for the removal of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms from existing trade and investment agreements.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 65 other organizations in a letter to the Chair and Ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senators Christopher Coons and Lindsey Graham, requesting funding for peacebuilding, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration, international climate finance, poverty-focused development assistance in the upcoming Fiscal Year of 2025.
Political maneuvering over the five-year-long bill may result in a deferred renewal.
