Reflect with the 2024 Advent Reflection Guide: One Family of God
Click here to download our 2024 Advent Guide: One Family of God, available in both English and Spanish. As we wrestle with the outcomes of yesterday’s elections, we look to…
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
Advent Guide 2024: One Family of God
Come pray, study, act with us. Ven para rezar, estudiar, y actuar con nosotoros Download a copy of the 2024 Advent Reflection Guide Descargar la guía para la reflexión en Adviento 2024 en Español The Advent Season begins Dec. 1, 2024. Advent is a season to prepare the way of the Lord. We commemorate the…
Advent Reflection Guide: One Family of God
The following article was published in the November-December 2024 issue of NewsNotes. Download the 10-page guide produced by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. The guide offers reflections, small group questions, prayers, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading and concerns raised by Maryknoll missioners and affiliates who attend to the needs of migrants…
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
There are several key themes in today’s Gospel that speak to the “signs of our times” and give us, in Jesus, an example of how we are to respond. Mark tells us of the crowd that was traveling with Jesus, and that Jesus “stood still” at the cry of Bartimaeus, a blind man. The scriptures…
Tell Congress to Protect the Stateless
Click here to write to your members of Congress in support of the Stateless Protection Act of 2024.The US Conference of Catholic Bishops released an action alert in support of…
U.S. Elections Webinar Series: Faith-based Migrant Justice
In this webinar, presenters: Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka, immigration lawyer in El Paso, Texas, Maryknoll Sister Susan Nchubiri, program associate at MOGC, and Iqbal Ahmad, Fellow of the University of Notre Dame Kroc Institute discuss the much needed immigration fixes in policy and what can be done to uphold the dignity of migrants. This…
Register for the U.S. Elections Webinar Series
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…
Join Webinar on Afghan Refugees
Watch the webinar Afghan Refugees: Three years out from Taliban takeover. August marks three years since the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover that followed. The upheaval…
Announcing U.S. Election Webinars
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns will hold webinars on policy issues relevant to the United States elections, which are only two months away.
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Father John Northrop remembers his years of service in Cuidad Juárez.
Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Congress Requesting Strong Humanitarian Aid in the New Budget
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.
President Biden Limits Asylum
An executive order effectively closes the U.S. southern border to people seeking asylum.
Celebrate World Refugee Day
Write to Congress in defense of refugees worldwide.
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Sister Helen Graham recognizes World Refugee Day in the scripture readings.
Maryknoll OGC among 46 Advocacy Organizations Denouncing Executive Order on Asylum
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 45 other advocacy groups in condemning President Biden’s executive order setting a precedent for closing the border. The coalition has released a press release outlining their opposition.
Tell Pres. Biden to Reverse Asylum Executive Action
President Biden announced a new executive action today, June 4, that would close the U.S.-Mexico border under certain circumstances and prevent people from seeking asylum, turning away adults and families…
Maryknoll OGC Joins USCCB Letter to Biden asking for protections for longtime undocumented residents
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined members of the Justice for Immigrants (JFI) Campaign from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in a letter to President Biden calling for protections for longtime undocumented residents in the United States. Read the letter as a PDF.
The Plight of Refugees in 2024
Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, UN agencies and NGOs note a rise in the number of refugees around the globe are on the rise and further forces of destabilization that put people more at risk.