In a unified voice of sorrow and hope, the Maryknoll family calls on the leaders of the United States, Israel, and Iran to move beyond the cycle of violence and commit to the urgent task of diplomacy and peace.
As a member of the Energy & Ecology Working Group of the Washington Interfaith Staff Community, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns signs on a letter addressing the withdrawal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Catholic organizations at the United Nations raise concerns over recent “actions that violate national sovereignty in favor of resource extraction and economic greed.”
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns released a statement expressing grave concern over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalization of the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns expresses deep concern over the end of the New START treaty and entreats policymakers to negotiate a replacement, circumventing a potential arms race.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns welcomes the court decision to maintain deportation protections for over 350,000 Haitians living in the United States. We recognize this decision as an important affirmation of human dignity, and reaffirm our commitment to working with Congress and the Administration to secure permanent protections and a pathway to residency for Haitian TPS holders who have long called this country home.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joins with over 300 other organizations to call for an extension of TPS for Haiti.
With 54 other faith and civil society organizations, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns calls on Congress to prevent a new nuclear arms race.
As a member of the Haiti Advocacy Working Group, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns shared its concerns about the Gang Suppression Force with Ambassador Henry Wooster.
Ahead of the 24th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening, 116 organizations signed this statement led by CVT and the Center for Constitutional Rights reaffirming that it must be closed, without repurposing it for any future detention regime, and that there must be redress for individuals who were held and whose rights were violated.
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the UNFCCC means the United States is neglecting its moral responsibility as a global power and the largest historical contributor to the climate crisis.
“While we have long advocated for justice and the relief of suffering for the Venezuelan people, we believe that violence and unilateral military intervention are never the path to reconciliation,” the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns said in a statement released on Jan. 3, 2026.
Maryknoll joined 103 other organizations to call on Sec. Marco Rubio to support those suffering in Gaza and include UNRWA in Gaza’s recovery efforts.
Eighty-five U.S. Catholic leaders asked Sec. Marco Rubio to reconsider the decision to leave the Paris climate agreement and to rejoin negotiations happening now at COP30 in Brazil.
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 79 organizations in an open letter expressing grave concern about the Trump administration’s imposition of sanctions on three prominent Palestinian human rights organizations due to their engagement with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and efforts investigating potential war crimes committed by the government of Israel in Gaza.
Pope Leo’s first new teaching was released today, October 9, 2025. In it, our new pope pushes us to put our faith into action and leaves us with urgent questions to answer.
Sixty-two faith and civil society organizations, including the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, sent the following letter to Congress expressing our alarm at the Trump administration’s “unwarranted and illegal military strikes and extrajudicial killings of civilians” on boats off of the coast of Venezuela.
“Our sacred texts are clear: violence is never the answer,” say more than 100 faith leaders in statement denouncing political violence and attacks on free speech and nonprofit independence in the United States.
