Hondurans need protection
We call on Congress to step in immediately and create a permanent solution for Honduran TPS holders.
Migration
Maryknoll missioners have worked with migrants and people on the move for decades. They have served Burmese refugees in Thailand, Filipino and Thai workers all over Asia, Burundian and Rwandan refugees in East Africa, and have accompanied Guatemalans, who, after years in Mexico, returned home to start anew in a more peaceful country. Our faith compels us to stand in solidarity with migrants.
In the United States, we are profoundly affected by the contribution of migrants in our society, and we have a responsibility to treat them, like all the rest of God’s creation, with dignity and respect. Maryknoll missioners work in ministries serving migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. In our work on U.S. migration policy, we focus on access to asylum and humanitarian protection, refugee aid and resettlement, and access to citizenship.
Maryknoll Joint Leadership Statements on Migration: Toward Global Solidarity (2006) and Statement on the Migrant Caravan (2018)
Policy Brief: Justice for Immigrants and Refugees in U.S. Policy
U.S.-Mexico border: ‘This is not a war zone’
Catholic bishops from eight dioceses in Texas, Arizona, and California issued a statement criticizing President Donald Trump’s announcement on April 4 that he would deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Modern Slavery at Sea Presentation
On March 21 and 22, 2018, the Maryknoll office for Global Concerns led a one-hour presentation on human trafficking entitled “Modern Slavery at Sea: Connections between Migrants and Our Faith, Food, and Economy” at Maryknoll, New York. Click here to watch the presentation. Click here to download the handout. Image: Fishing boat in Thailand by Flickr/SeaDave
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Maryknoll Sister Miriam Frances Perlewitz in Bangladesh reflects on the need for a clean heart and steadfast spirit when facing life’s challenges.
UN: Ten acts for safe global migration
Civil society organizations at the UN concluded their consultations on the proposed “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” in December with a 15-page report entitled “Ten Acts for the Global Compact.” The report lists actions needed to ensure that human mobility, envisioned as a normal and inescapable fact of life, will be safe and provide migrants with opportunities for human development. The following are excerpts from the report which has been given to UN member nations participating in negotiations scheduled for February to July 2018.
Protecting Dreamers through the courts
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined the legal effort to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program alive by writing about the lived experiences of Maryknoll missioners in an amicus brief supporting a case on behalf of 42,000 DACA recipients in the state of New York.
Maryknoll joins legal effort to keep DACA program alive
Read Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns’ part in an amicus brief for a successful case in New York to stop the end of the DACA program.
Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers
Tuesday, Feb. 27: Prayer vigil and action in Washington, D.C.
Tell Congress to protect immigrants NOW
Congress has only days left to take action for immigrants.
Maryknoll Missioners stand with immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and Africa
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns issued the following statement on January 16, 2018.
Maryknoll decries the United States’ decision to rescind TPS for El Salvador
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns strongly objects to the announcement made by the Department of Homeland Security on January 8, 2018 that more than 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been living and working legally in the United States with Temporary Protected Status must leave within the next 18 months or face deportation.
World Day of Peace
Pope Francis’ message for the World Day Peace on January 1 calls on the world to view global migration not as a threat but as an opportunity to build peace. The following article was published in the January-February 2018 issue of NewsNotes. CLICK HERE to download our two-page flyer
Ecumenical Advocacy Days
Plan now to attend Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD) in Washington, D.C., April 20 – 23. The theme is “A World Uprooted: Responding to Migrants, Refugees and Displaced People.” More information is available at www.advocacydays.org, or contact the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
Life and death along the U.S.-Mexico border
Stories from migrants on the Mexico-side of the border and volunteers offering water on the U.S.-side.
Slave-free seafood label campaign
Catholic organizations press for positive change in the lives of those who work in the international fishing industry.
World Day of Peace Message 2018
Pope Francis’ message for the World Day Peace on January 1 calls on the world to view global migration not as a threat but as an opportunity to build peace.
The moment has come for defending immigrant communities
We need Congress to deliver a clean Dream Act and save TPS families before the end of the year.
Defend our Immigrant Communities Day of Action
Join 15,000 people to demand that Congress take action on a clean Dream Act and permanent status for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.