The nations of Africa face numerous challenges, both internal and external, but the Brookings Institution’s annual Foresight Africa report highlights areas where the continent can overcome headwinds, at least to some extent.
As the final treaty governing the world’s largest nuclear arsenals expires without a successor, faith leaders and advocacy groups are calling on the United States to reject a new arms race and embrace a path toward disarmament.
In a definitive act of oversight, Congress restored billions in funding for global health and democracy, even as the traditional structures of U.S. foreign aid begin to dissolve. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Program Associate Fellow Mark Joyce reports.
The following is a summary of an article written by Maureen Meyer for the Washington Office on Latin America on Feb. 19, 2026.
The January 3 U.S. attack on Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro continue to have dramatic reverberations inside Venezuela and globally. The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (MOGC) has been following events together with partner organizations in Latin America and the United States.
On Feb. 10, a group of nineteen Theravada Buddhist monks completed a 108-day, 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace” from their center for meditation in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to share a message of peace, compassion and nonviolence. Stefan Andre Waligur, founder of Community of Peace in Louisa, Virginia, a Taize-style intentional community, wrote the following reflection on his experience accompanying the monks on their walk that day and participating in an interfaith service of welcome for the monks at the National Cathedral.
In early February 2026, Catholic bishops from the United States and the African continent met in Washington, D.C., to formalize a new era of spiritual and social partnership.
Eleven Catholic Bishops from the United States, Canada, and Latin America met in Tampa, Florida, for a biennial gathering aimed at strengthening continental unity.
A season of holy resistance by faith groups is in full swing in Washington, D.C., against current federal immigration enforcement practices and funding.
As U.S. federal immigration enforcement turned violent, a civic culture of “neighborism” emerged in the Twin Cities. Greg Darr, Vocations Minister for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, reports from Minnesota.
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 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.
Experts believe ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is possible with enough political will, funding, and access to tools for prevention and treatment.
