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
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…
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…
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…
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns will hold webinars on policy issues relevant to the United States elections, which are only two months away.
Maryknoll Father John Northrop remembers his years of service in Cuidad Juárez.
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.
An executive order effectively closes the U.S. southern border to people seeking asylum.
Write to Congress in defense of refugees worldwide.
Maryknoll Sister Helen Graham recognizes World Refugee Day in the scripture readings.
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.
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 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.
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.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined Haitian Bridge Alliance and 480+ Immigration, Human Rights, Faith-Based, and Civil Rights Organizations in Sending a Letter to President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Mayorkas Urging the Extension and Redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and a Moratorium on Deportations.
Rule changes initiated by the US Department of State have resulted in backlogs for noncitizen religious workers seeking visas, resulting in onerous consequences for religious workers and their communities.
Annunciation House, a Catholic-affiliated non-profit organization in El Paso, Texas, that operates a group of houses of hospitality for migrants, is facing attempts by the Texas attorney general to shut it down on baseless accusations.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over 150 faith-based organizations in a letter to President Biden asking him to reconsider some of the reported changes in policy his administration is weighing that would negatively impact asylum seekers.
Annunciation house, which serves migrants in El Paso, Texas, has come under attack by the Texas Attorney General’s Office with baseless accusations.
