Nuns on the Bus for immigration reform
Learn more about NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus summer tour, highlighting the need for humane and just immigration reform.
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
Judiciary Committee passes immigration bill; now moves to Senate floor
The following update is from our colleagues with the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Counter anti-immigrant advocacy
Speak out in support of humane immigration reform; don’t allow anti-immigrant voices to dominate the conversation.
Demand justice for Mexican teen killed by U.S. Border Patrol
No More Deaths has circulated the following alert to respond to the death of 16-year old José Antonio Elena Rodriguez.
Justice for Immigrants Advocacy Day
The USCCB’s Justice for Immigrants campaign will host an advocacy event in Washington, DC, May 20-21.
Send e-postcard to Congress for immigration reform
Send this electronic postcard your U.S. senators and representatives asking that they pass just and compassionate immigration reform legislation in the 113th Congress.
Immigration: Security along U.S.-Mexico border
The ongoing struggle for just and humane immigration reform in the U.S. will probably stretch out all spring.
Sign letter of conscience to Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack
From our colleagues at Pax Christi USA who received it from Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida.
Immigration coalition urges reform
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.
National call-in day for humane immigration reform
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…
First Sunday of Lent
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.
Feast of the Holy Family
Br. John Beeching works with Burmese refugees in Thailand.
National Migration Week 2013
National Migration Week 2013 will held from January 6-12 with a primary theme of “We are Strangers No Longer: Our Journey of Hope Continues.”
Human trafficking
Trafficking, sexual slavery, child prostitution … all are gross violations of human dignity and demand urgent attention.
Migration policy, advocacy in 2013 and beyond: New challenges, new opportunities
This year’s national conference for the USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) will be held in early December in Atlanta, GA.
Pax Christi USA Momentum and Teacher of Peace award ceremony
Momentum 2012The Challenge of Peacemaking with Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Pax Christi USA’s founding bishop-president, Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace and the 1991 Teacher of Peace and Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas and Pax Christi USA’s 2012 Teacher of Peace award recipient September 7, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.at Trinity University125 Michigan Avenue NEWashington, D.C. $50 contribution per…
Toward global solidarity: Maryknoll leadership statement on migration
The following statement was approved on September 6, 2006 by Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers General Council, the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic Congregational Leadership Team, and the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Association Leadership Team.
Take action: Tell Obama to stop Border Patrol violence
MIgrants continue to suffer tremendously as they search for a better life for themselves and their families.