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  • Maryknoll OGC Signs Letter to Senate Urging Against Foreign Aid Funding Rescission

    Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined the Interfaith Working Group on Foreign Assistance of the Washington Interfaith Staff Community to write to the Senate…

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  • Trump Administration Fights Legal Immigration Status

    The executive branch has waged legal warfare against the legal designations that protect people from deportation back to the dangerous countries they have fled.…

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  • Maryknoll OGC Among 200+ NGO’s Calling for UN-Coordinated Aid Distribution in Gaza

    Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns was among 200+ NGOs calling for an immediate end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme in Gaza and revert to…

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  • Maryknoll OGC Joins Amicus Brief to U.S. Court of Appeals on Behalf of Humanitarian Parole Plaintiffs

    Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 11 religiously-affiliated organizations that provide support to immigrants in writing to the U.S. Court of Appeals on the…

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  • Churches For Middle East Peace Welcomes Ceasefire

    The statement below, published June 24, 2025, addresses the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and U.S. use of force. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns…

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  • Sudan: War Crisis Continues

    Civilians in Sudan face unprecedented hunger and displacement as the United States cuts humanitarian assistance.

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  • U.S. Strikes on Iran Condemned by Church, Others

    Peace and international affairs experts criticized President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran in support of Israel’s war.

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  • Pope Leo’s Focus on Peace and Nonviolence

    From his first public words as pontiff to the recent response to the bombing of Iran, the new pope prioritizes nonviolent peacemaking and resistance…

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  • Maryknoll Missioners Testify to Global Debt Crisis

    Burdensome debt payments prevent more than 40 percent of countries in the Global South from responding to social and development needs. Maryknoll Office for…

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  • People’s Forum to G7: Turn Debt Into Hope

    Advocates met in Calgary, Canada, ahead of the G7 summit to discuss the 2025 Jubilee debt relief campaign.

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  • DRC and Rwanda Sign Peace Deal

    The U.S.-Qatari negotiated peace accord swaps war for resource mining.

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  • Faith Groups Affirm Commitment to Paris Climate Agreement

    As the U.S. federal government exits the Paris Agreement, faith organizations in the United States affirm their commitment to the 2014 international climate change…

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