Tanzania turns away private investment in agriculture
Tanzania plans to end the investment program within the SAGCOT initiative, a high-profile public private partnership, due to concerns for smallholder farmers’ land rights and economic security.
Guatemala: My time with a migrant caravan
Sr. Dee Smith, MM, reflects on spending Holy Week with people traveling as a migrant caravan.
UN conference on women takes on gender inequality
Maryknoll Sister Marvie Misolas reports on the 63rd UN conference on women.
Climate change: Urgency grows at UN
The United Nations is stepping up high-level events to urge member states to take action to address climate change.
Climate action in a parish: Let there be solar light
The Diocese of Arlington’s Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish offers its experience of installing solar panels as a template for other churches to follow.
Supreme Court rules World Bank can be sued
A historic Supreme Court decision declares international organizations like the World Bank Group can be sued in U.S. courts.
Unnecessary trade
A new multimedia project by Local Futures highlights the variety of illogical and unnecessary trade deals that prop up the global economy and harm local environments and small-scale businesses and farmers.
Promoting nonviolence with the Catholic Church
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns was an organizer and participant in the second international meeting on nonviolence hosted by Pax Christi International and the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in Rome in April 2019.
Maryknoll’s 100 Years of Mission
Published in 2011, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, the first of the three branches of the Maryknoll Missioners.
Follow-up Workshop on Nonviolence at the Vatican
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns collaborated with Pax Christi International in organizing this important workshop April 4-5, 2019.
Trump Administration’s Latest Actions on Central America Will Fuel Migration, Not Address It
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joins over 40 U.S.-based faith, human rights, foreign policy, humanitarian, immigrant rights and border-based civil society organizations in a statement to express deep concern over the Trump Administration’s latest actions on Central America including the wholesale cutoffs of assistance to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
World Water Day 2019
Defenders of water and land are being killed at alarming rates.