The Plight of Refugees in 2024
Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, UN agencies and NGOs note a rise in the number of refugees around the globe are on the rise and further forces of destabilization that put people more at risk.
Maryknoll OGC Joins 100+ Faith Groups Call for Global Health Equity as Nations Finalize Pandemic Agreement
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over 100 religious leaders and faith-based organizations globally in calling on leaders of the World Health Organization to secure equity commitments to protect all populations everywhere from future pandemics.
UN: 62nd Session of the Commission for Social Development
Maryknoll Sister Margaret Lacson reports some observations on the UN annual meetings to foster social development and justice.
Solidarity Economy: Serving the Common Good
There is a global movement to build a just and sustainable economy that prioritizes people and planet over profit.
Nuclear Ban Week: A Call for Global Disarmament
Archbishop John Wester amplified the call for nuclear disarmament in a sermon delivered on Nuclear Ban Week at Our Savior Church, New York City.
UN: Plastic Elimination Treaty Stalled
A UN conference aimed at creating an International Legally Binding Instrument for plastic waste reduction was hampered by divergent views on how to reach the destination.
UN: Climate Conference COP28 Confronts Fossil Fuels
Nearly every nation in the world has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
COP28 Outcomes and Next Steps
A first-hand account of what happened at COP28 and what comes next, from three representatives of Catholic organizations who were in Dubai for the UN Climate Conference.
COP 28 Midway Report
The following is a message from Lisa Sullivan, reporting from Dubai at the midpoint of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28.
Addressing an Ecological Urgency
James H. Kroeger, MM, shares an exposition of Pope Francis’ latest apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum, originally written for the World Mission magazine in Manila (Comboni Missionaries) 2023.
Follow us at COP 28
The 2023 report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that there are only six years left to make swift and dramatic action to avoid cataclysm
Committee for Food Security Takes on Inequality
The drastic decline in world food security and nutrition in recent years drives home the urgency of confronting the root cause – inequality. Maryknoll Fr. Ken Thesing reports from the UN in Rome.
Pope Francis Calls on COP28 to Deliver
Pope Francis wrote in his recent apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum about his concerns for the climate and hopes for action at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai in December.
COP 28 Two-pager
In advance of the 2023 UN Conference on climate change
Ask World Leaders for a Robust Loss and Damage Fund
Click here to sign the faith letter to world leaders asking for a robust Loss and Damage Fund. One great injustice of the climate crisis is the fact that poor…
Five Takeaways from Laudate Deum by Pope Francis
Key points from the follow-up to Laudato Si’
Five Takeaways from Laudate Deum by Pope Francis
Today, on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis released Laudate Deum (Latin for “Praise God”), an eagerly anticipated follow-up to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’.
Five Takeaways from Laudate Deum
Key points from the follow-up to Laudato Si’