Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined 75 human rights organizations, faith-based groups, legal associations, and academic institutions in an open letter to Congress and the incoming US Presidential administration decrying sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC). As the House of Representatives is scheduled to review this legislation among its first orders of business, we…
Art Laffin offers the following reflection on the experience on March 21 of being arrested alongside twelve other members of Christians for Ceasefire while wearing pictures of the destruction in Gaza and singing hymns of peace in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office building. The following article was published in the November-December 2024 issue…
Prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC, more than 200 global bishops and Christian leaders, including Sr. Teresa Hougnon, president of the Maryknoll Sisters and Susan Gunn, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, call for world leaders to institute a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, halt of offensive arms sales to Israel, and prevention of a broader regional war.
Thousands of U.S. Catholics have signed an open letter to Pres. Biden calling for a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza as threats of starvation grow in the Palestinian enclave.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and other Christian groups stand with Muslims, Jews, and others in praying, demonstrating, and advocating for a ceasefire and sustainable, just peace in the Middle East.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joins 140+ global Christian leaders in call to world leaders for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a halt to arms sales to Israel.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined faith groups in four day visit to the Holy Land, held meetings with leaders on the topic of the ongoing Israel Hamas conflict. The trip was coordinated by Churches for Middle East Peace.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo calling for a suspension of all firearms exports to Israel and implement firearms exports controls that keep U.S. manufactured guns out of the hands of human rights abusers.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined over 70 national groups representing millions of Americans in a letter to Congress urging a vote in favor of S.Res.504, Senator Bernie Sanders’ resolution under Section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act (22 U.S.C. § 2304) requiring a report on Israel’s human rights practices and U.S. military aid to Israel.
Since March 30, Israeli forces have killed 118 Palestinians, including 14 children, and wounded 3,895 with live gunfire as protesters engaged in weekly demonstrations at the border fences separating Gaza and Israel.
Gerry Lee, Director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, joined a delegation of representatives of Catholic advocacy organizations to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in April. The following aricle focuses on the delegation’s 24-hour visit to Gaza.
Members of the Faith Forum on Middle East Policy issued a statement on the latest violence at the Gaza border fence on April 12, 2018.
The following letter was sent on December 15, 2014 to Secretary of State John Kerry and USAID administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah.
On Tuesday, July 22, the following letter was sent to President Obama (and copied to members of Congress); it was signed by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and several other members of the Faith Forum.
