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
People of faith across the country will engage in constant prayer, fasting and expansive action for 40 days starting when Congress returns from recess on September 9 and lasting until October 18.
Interfaith Immigration Coalition Grassroots Webinar: Fast Action for Immigration Reform InitiativeMonday, July 29, 4 pm (Eastern) Right now is a pivotal moment in the movement for immigration reform. As people of faith, we must engage our communities in prayerful action in solidarity with those whose lives are directly impacted by our unjust immigration policies, and…
Attend the July 24 briefing on immigration presented by Nuns on the Bus.
Nuns on the Bus will hold a Congressional briefing on immigration on July 24 — urge your member of Congress to attend.
Fr. John Northrup wrote this reflection in 2010; it is also published in A Maryknoll Liturgical Year (Year C), available from Orbis Books.
On June 27, the U.S. Senate passed S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.
Fr. Jack Northrup is a Maryknoll missioner serving in El Salvador.
Learn more about NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus summer tour, highlighting the need for humane and just immigration reform.
The following update is from our colleagues with the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Speak out in support of humane immigration reform; don’t allow anti-immigrant voices to dominate the conversation.
No More Deaths has circulated the following alert to respond to the death of 16-year old José Antonio Elena Rodriguez.
The USCCB’s Justice for Immigrants campaign will host an advocacy event in Washington, DC, May 20-21.
Send this electronic postcard your U.S. senators and representatives asking that they pass just and compassionate immigration reform legislation in the 113th Congress.
The ongoing struggle for just and humane immigration reform in the U.S. will probably stretch out all spring.
From our colleagues at Pax Christi USA who received it from Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida.
The Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC), a coalition of 35 national faith-based organizations, including the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, published the following requests for action from the 113th Congress, which will be seated in January 2013.
Mark your calendars! Tuesday, January 22: National faith call-in day for humane immigration reform [From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition:] We’ve been praying and working for immigration reform, and now is our chance to make it a reality. On Tuesday, January 22, let’s welcome the new Congress by making sure they know that people of…
Debbie Northern worked in El Salvador for eight years as a Maryknoll lay missioner. She now works as the training and education programs manager for the Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
