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
First-hand insights into the current events in both Ngorongoro and Loliondo, as well as other areas facing land dispossession by the government of Tanzania.
The document, signed by the 37 bishops of Tanzania, rebukes the government’s undemocratic deals with the United Arab Emirates for not considering the resulting harm to the people. In particular, it mentions the Maasai communities of Loliondo, “whose cultural and social rights have been violated.”
The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. On September 20th in New York,…
Half a million individuals, hundreds of cities and states, and even countries around the world have taken the same pledge to: end expansion of any new coal, oil or gas production; phase-out existing production of fossil fuels in a manner that is fair and equitable; and ensure a global just transition to 100% access to renewable energy globally
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 26 other organizations in calling on Congress to reject language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would allow military contractors to skirt responsibility in reporting greenhouse gas emissions, or for the military to avoid greenhouse gas reduction initiatives altogether.
For International Indigenous People’s Day this week, we join Pope Francis in raising up the voices of our “Amazonian brothers and sisters” at a crucial moment. Today and tomorrow, August…
In a letter co-signed by 19 Catholic groups, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns brought to the Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s attention the proposals by the Catholic Church sponsored Panamazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) in advance of the Summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO)
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 51 other organizations in writing to the Senate Subcommittee on State Foreign Operations to request robust funding for the Fiscal Year 2024. A similar letter went to the House counterpart.
Environmentalists await a verdict from the first climate lawsuit of children versus their government to go to trial.
REMAM has urged Panama’s National Assembly to reject a deal with a Canadian copper company’s subsidiary.
Sign the petition to Congress: Help end hunger, expand food access, and address climate resilience in the 2023 Farm Bill
Join the Vatican in signing the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty and ask Congress to pass the Fossil Free Finance Act.
Celebrate World Environment Day by taking concrete steps and registering for informative virtual events
Under the pretext of conservation, Indigenous Maasai pastoralists are being systematically expelled from their land.
This week we celebrate the 8th anniversary of Laudato Si’, the extraordinary ecological encyclical in which Pope Francis calls us to “hear the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” Join Catholics throughout the world in responding to his call to care for our common home.
May 25th marks the 60th anniversary of World Africa Day. Maryknoll missioners in Tanzania, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and most recently, Chad, invite us to celebrate the diverse beauty and…
Call on G7 leaders meeting in Hiroshima to protect the future of our planet. Leaders can protect the planet by enacting the “Climate Peace Clause” and taking real steps toward…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 32 other religious and humanitarian groups in calling on the White House for a Root Causes Initiative that uses diplomacy to “combat corruption, promote respect for human rights, worker rights, and the rule of law, and encourage inclusive governance.”
