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
USCCB News Release on National Migration Week 2014 | En Español Advocacy activities you are urged to do during the week: Tuesday, Jan. 7 – Send a JFI e-postcard for the national electronic advocacy day. Wednesday, Jan. 8 – Participate in the JFI National Call-In Day to Congress. Use the toll free number, 1-855-589-5698, to call your…
Barbara Fraser served as a lay missioner in Peru.
Justice for Immigrants (JFI), the immigrants’ rights campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has several resources available. Find them at the JFI website For the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe – Dec. 12 Homily notes | En Español Sample intercessions | En Español San Juan Diego prayer card (bilingual) Activities you can do (bilingual) | English | En Español Sample pulpit…
In early November 2013, a large coalition of immigration activists started a rolling fast, hoping to follow the examples of Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi to touch the compassion and sensibilities of our elected leaders to address the moral crisis of an immigration system that fails to comport with our national values, our creeds and belief in justice.
November 13, the feast of St. Frances Cabrini, will be the date of a national call-in day to the U.S. Congress, urging them to take action for just and humane immigration reform.
The following appeared in the November-December 2013 issue of NewsNotes.
Nationwide events starting on October 5 will culminate in a rally in Washington, D.C. on October 8, calling for dignity and respect for immigrants.
Written by Gabriela Romeri (writer/editor with Revista Maryknoll), Chelsey Clammer and Rae Bryant, and published originally on The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review website.
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.
