Feast of All Saints
The following reflection was prepared by Fr. Dave Schwinghamer, who spent much of his mission life in Tanzania. He currently serves with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
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
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
The following reflection was prepared by Judy Coode who works at the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
Sign petition for specific, immediate action on immigration
El Paso’s Annunciation House, which has provided shelter for migrants for decades, has drafted this petition to President Obama, urging specific and immediate action on immigration.
Volunteers, donations needed for refugees
The following request for action and support was circulated by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, based on information from the Sisters of Loretto Nazareth.
29th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)
The following reflection was prepared by Cecelia Aguilar Ortiz, a former Maryknoll lay missioner in Thailand
26th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Fr. Paul Masson has served as a missioner in Chile and on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Resources, September-October 2014
A few resources from the September-October 2014 NewsNotes.
Migration: Where are Nicaraguan children?
A central cause of the recent dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied children immigrating into the U.S. through its border with Mexico is the high level of crime and violence in the principal “sending countries” – Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador (collectively referred to as the Northern Triangle) and Mexico.
Migration crisis in U.S.
The following article was written by Eben Levey, who worked with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns from September 2013 through August 2014.
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Br. John Beeching has spent years in Thailand, and share many beautiful reflections about living his Christian life surrounded by Buddhism.
19th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Sr. Ann Hayden has served as a missioner in Central America; she will wrap up her six-year term on the Maryknoll Sisters’ Congregational Leadership Team in the fall of 2014.
Urgent: Stop cuts to refugee services; help unaccompanied children
The following alert is circulated by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Demand that Congress REJECT rollbacks to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Urgent: Call the Senate and House today: Demand that Congress REJECT rollbacks to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Migration: Crisis on two borders
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) recently published Mexico’s Other Border Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis between Guatemala and Mexico.
Two actions to take to support migrant children
Two actions to take to support undocumented children at the border.
Pentecost resource: On fire for immigration reform
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice for Immigrants campaign offers On Fire for Immigration Reform: A Pentecost Resource.
May 29: Call in day for immigration reform
In solidarity with visits by the USCCB’s Committee on Migration to members of Congress, call your representative and senators and urge just and humane immigration reform.
Immigration: Concerns on enforcement policy
The following is an excerpt from a letter sent by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, expressing the bishops’ concern about the U.S.’s immigration enforcement policies.