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Remaining CDC PEPFAR Programs Face Funding Cliff
As PEPFAR faces funding restrictions under shifting U.S. global health policy, millions of lives are at stake across dozens of countries.
IMF and World Bank Risk Deepening Debt Crisis
Eurodad (the European Network on Debt and Development) calls for urgent action at the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings to address the growing…
One Boundless, Borderless Fluid Being: The Ocean
Examining the legal tensions between deep-sea mining and the global framework for marine biodiversity protection.
Fallout from U.S. Minerals-for-Meds Demand in Zambia
Reports that the State Department is considering conditioning vital medical assistance on a critical minerals deal in Zambia have sparked severe controversy among U.S.…
In Defense of Life Over Lithium in Zambia
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 90+ organizations in the following letter to Secretary Marco Rubio on March 30, urging the U.S. not…
Peru: Court sides with Indigenous on Mining
Human Rights and Environment (DHUMA), the Puno, Peru-based legal aid organization founded by Maryknoll Sister Patricia Ryan and Aymara Indigenous activists, published the following…
Platform for Mining Divestment
From March 19–22, a landmark gathering in Rome marked a paradigm shift in how faith-based institutions understand their relationship with the earth and the…
First Global Conference to Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
Santa Marta summit unites governments, civil society, and faith actors to advance a just transition beyond fossil fuels.
Nonviolence missing from discussions of Church and Iran War
Condemnation of the United States’ and Israel’s war on Iran by Catholic leaders has received significant press in recent weeks. But much of this…
Joint Leadership Statement on U.S.-Israel War on Iran
The Maryknoll family issued the following statement on March 16.
Philippine Bishop Issues Call for ‘Church of the Poor’
In a seven-page pastoral letter, Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of San Carlos in the central Philippines issued a powerful call for the Philippine Catholic Church…
