World AIDS Day 2012
Every year on December 1 we renew our commitment to ending the spread and affiction of HIV and AIDS.
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First Sunday of Advent
The first Sunday of Advent 2012 falls on the 32th anniversary of the martyrdom of the four North American churchwomen in El Salvador. This reflection is prepared by Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International and former director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
Middle East Notes November 1, 2012
Read previous weeks’ Middle East Notes Please note: Opinions expressed in the following articles do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. This week’s Middle East Notes focus on the growing reality of an apartheid Israeli State and the present Palestinian majority in the area controlled by Israel. Also included…
Middle East Notes October 25, 2012
Read previous weeks’ Middle East Notes Please note: Opinions expressed in the following articles do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. Earlier this month, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over a dozen other Christian groups in signing a letter to Congress which urges a closer review of…
Human trafficking
Trafficking, sexual slavery, child prostitution … all are gross violations of human dignity and demand urgent attention.
Middle East Notes September 27, 2012
This week’s articles focus on the two-state/one-state debate; procrastination on a peace plan; the use of the Oslo Accords to promote apartheid; responses and reactions from Palestinian, Israeli, and U.S. American Jewish sources to the Romney video comments on the Palestinians; “warehousing;” a peace-less status quo; and other issues.
Water
“Water and life are inseparable,” writes Rev. Donald Pelotte, SSS, in his paper God’s sacred gift of water. Water is a human right, in that, to the extent one has the right to live, one has the right to water. Fresh water’s growing scarcity is one of the greatest calamities facing humankind. Alarming concerns, such as…
Climate change
Sr. Ann Braudis reports from Durban, South Africa and the December 2011 UN Climate Change Conference Tell Obama to take strong action at UN climate change meeting Durban, South Africa Congressional attacks continue on the EPA Reports from MOGC staff at the Copenhagen conference, December 2009 Scientists acknowledge that climate change includes the melting of…