Israel's occupation of Palestine: 50 years too long
Twenty Christian faith leaders ask President Trump to work toward the end of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
The work for climate justice will go on
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is very disappointed that President Trump has decided to remove the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
NAFTA renegotiations: Put people and creation at the center
The Trump administration announced plans to renegotiate NAFTA.
Resources from May-June 2017 NewsNotes
New programs at the Maryknoll Mission Institute, a film from the Interfaith Drones Network, an advocacy summit from Churches for Middle East Peace, and much more.
South Sudan: Shifting the Lens on Famine
For the first time in six years, the United Nations has declared that a situation of famine exists on the continent of Africa.
Israel/Palestine: 50 years of occupation
2017 marks 50 years of Israel’s military occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 10 years of Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
Maryknoll supports environmental defenders
In March, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns supported two delegations from Latin America who spoke at separate hearings at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C.
El Salvador votes for water over gold
After a 12-year campaign, Salvadoran lawmakers have voted to ban mining for metals. The following article was written by Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the International Allies against Metal Mining and originally published on Inequality.org.
Faith in action: Protect Haitians in the U.S.
The following action alert was published in the May-June 2017 issue of NewsNotes.
Global migration crisis: Border walls destroy life
On April 28, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 38 national faith-based organizations and 41 state & local faith-based organizations and congregations in a letter to all members of Congress urging them to oppose funding for a border wall and further militarized infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border. Instead, we ask Congress to appropriate funding that supports our shared faith principles and reorients the Department of Homeland Security’s strategies toward more sensible and humane solutions that are informed by and to the benefit of border communities.
Korea: Moving from crisis to peace
The following article is written by Irish Columban missionary priest Pat Cunningham, SSC, who lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Father Cunningham is an active member of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative and the Catholic solidarity movement for peace on the Korean peninsula which opposes the construction of a military base to host U.S. military ships and personnel on the beautiful island of Jeju.
Nuclear disarmament needed now
In March, UN member states held the first round of controversial negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban. One month later, amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns co-sponsored a conference on nuclear disarmament at the U.S. Capitol where leading voices for nuclear disarmament were heard.