Brazilian TV features Kathy Bond’s online workshop
Lay missioner's teaching of shantala baby massage is highlighted by Com Você program.
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Spring 2020 issue of Voices of Compassion
Cover story features lay missioners combating climate change
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Heidi Cerneka quoted in Buzzfeed
On the perils for older detainees in ICE custody.
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Returned lay missioner reflects on COVID-19 isolation in Peru
With Peruvian borders closed because of the pandemic, 'an infinite abyss' has opened
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2019 Sending coverage in diocesan publications
Syracuse, Worcester and Hartford dioceses report on new missioners' Sending.
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Texas public radio features Heidi Cerneka on ‘Withholding of Removal’
'If asylum is the gold standard, withholding of removal is the aluminum standard.'
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Watch the 2019 Joint Mission Sending Ceremony
Maryknoll Lay Missioners and Maryknoll Sisters jointly celebrate and officially send forth five new missioners.
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Four new missioners sign the Maryknoll Lay Missioners covenant
Video of Covenant Mass
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Five new Maryknoll missioners to be sent forth
Dec. 14 Sending Ceremony to launch four Maryknoll lay missioners and one Maryknoll sister on their overseas missions.
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Meet the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Class of 2019
7-minute video introducing four new lay missioners who will be going into mission in Cambodia, Haiti and Kenya.
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Maryknoll Symposium on Dorothy Day now available for watching
Robert Ellsberg, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan, Patrick Jordan and Kate Hennessy speak at Dorothy Day gathering at Maryknoll
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Border ministry, Cambodia immersion, volleyball values and more
The Fall/Winter 2019 issue of Voices of Compassion magazine features compelling lay missioner stories
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Maryknoll advocacy office calls withdrawal from climate agreement ‘unconscionable’
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns sharply criticizes the U.S. government's Nov. 4 move to formally withdraw from the Paris agreement
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The Belleville Messenger on Heidi Cerneka
Lay missioner 'in the middle of one of the most contentious issues'
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Catholic Spirit features Maria Montello’s ministry in Cambodia
"Maryknoll missionary takes faith, desire to serve to Cambodia."
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Karen Bortvedt on ‘Among the People’ podcast
Karen Bortvedt talks about her lay mission service in Cambodia and her current work for Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
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Lay missioner nurse shares her story
Kathy Flatoff tells Catholic Life magazine how 33 years after first applying to Maryknoll, she became a lay missioner in Kenya.
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Gabe Hurrish featured in USCMA’s Encounter newsletter
'The Holy Spirit is a jolly joker,' says Gabe.
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CNS covers new Maryknoll Lay Missioners award
Catholic News Service on new Bishop McCarthy Award
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Joanne Blaney featured by USCMA
In its Encounter newsletter, the US Catholic Mission Association has published a feature on Joanne...
Let us work to be united in heart
On this World Day of Migrants and Refugees, in the midst of unprecedented upheaval, scripture calls us to compassion.
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Brazilian TV features Kathy Bond’s online workshop
Lay missioner's teaching of shantala baby massage is highlighted by Com Você program.
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From Peace Corps to ‘Catholic Peace Corps’
Seven Maryknoll lay missioners who got their start in the Peace Corps compare notes about their experiences in both.
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Theater that changes lives
Flávio José Rocha uses Theater of the Oppressed to work for change in Brazil.
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What’s fair?
Flávio José Rocha reflects on the parable of the landowner and laborers in light of his mission work.
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An Uzima Centre success story
Samwel Chacha — from orphan to frontline COVID nurse and medical student
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How we buried Mercedes
A Salvadoran funeral during COVID-19
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COVID-19 is causing setbacks for other global health efforts
The coronavirus pandemic is hampering global public health efforts to treat and control the spread of malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis in Africa.
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Moments of hope in COVID-era Bolivia
It is the simple moments of shared connection that give hope during these times of darkness and uncertainty
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Aiding asylum seekers in the midst of a pandemic
Carol Honerkamp Zuccarino has been volunteering at El Paso's Annunciation House for more than six months.
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Haitian reforestation project promotes sustainability
'Project Lorax' will provide sustainable development and a livelihood for 100 families, while planting 40,000 new trees.
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The good news of polio eradication in Africa
Lay missioner reflects on her part in the decades-long public health campaign to "Kick Polio Out of Africa"
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Denial, struggle and hope during Haiti’s pandemic
Despite uncertainty, fear and a sense of powerlessness, hope continues to anchor lay missioners in Haiti.
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In El Salvador, COVID-19 self-isolation is countercultural
Latin Americans value close family ties and togetherness, which make self-quarantining particularly difficult.
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We must take up our crosses — with love
Rich Tarro reflects on joy and grace in the midst of suffering.
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New 3-minute Maryknoll Lay Missioners video
Video about Maryknoll Lay Missioners' inspiring, multifaceted work in Africa, Asia and the Americas
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Why serve in South Sudan?
30 months into his service in South Sudan — and 30 years after first traveling to the country — Gabe Hurrish reflects on why he is there.
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Beating the odds with an immigration case
How Elizabeth’s life changed forever, thanks to a lay missioner's legal advocacy — and the prayers and support of many
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Protecting people living with disabilities in remote Bolivian towns
Maryknoll lay missioners in Bolivia team up to bring together needs and resources for creative new ministries with people living with disabilities.
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Promoting indigenous people’s education in the southern Philippines
Returned missioner Jet Birondo-Goddard continues to sow "seeds of peace" in her Maryknoll-inspired journey
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A returned missioner’s reflection on George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
Today's unspeakable tragedies rekindle our deep missionary longing to seek a more just world for all by “doing something.”
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Maryknoll Lay Missioners turns 45
The history of the U.S. Catholic Church's leading global lay missioner program
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Maryknoll’s first lay missioner
During the 1930s, Dr. Harry Blaber, a Brooklyn physician, served as a medical missioner with Maryknoll in China.
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Teen pregnancies increasing during pandemic
In East Africa, a setback for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
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Remembering the Aug. 3 El Paso massacre
Last year's racist mass shooting must be a call to action. Light a candle and do your part!
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Helping children with disabilities access healthcare in Tanzania
Maryknoll parish's community health program tackles health insurance and other obstacles that prevent children with disabilities from accessing care
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Elderly Salvadoran couple teaches about the joy of sharing
Lessons from a breakfast with Enriqueta and Eugenio, as they shelter from a tropical storm in El Salvador
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Ugandan immigrant in South Sudan empowers women
Meet Constance Langoya, a woman of constant strength
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Cortney and Juan’s pandemic meal ministry
During the strict Bolivian quarantine, lay missioners in Cochabamba have been providing daily meals to hungry and homeless people.
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Our commitment to anti-racism and the ‘Beloved Community’
A Maryknoll Lay Missioners statement
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Anti-racism action steps and resources
From Maryknoll Lay Missioners' Anti-Racism Task Force
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Life and death in COVID-19 Tanzania
On the surface, life in Tanzania looks normal, but coronavirus cases are multiplying.
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Choosing fertile ground for hope
Peg Vámosy reflects on how this pandemic offers us the opportunity for a fresh start on healing our broken relationship with all God's creation.
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Paulo, presente: Gratitude to an essential worker
Joanne Blaney shares the story of a member of her base community.
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Salim’s family and the struggle for survival
For poor but resilient families in Mombasa, Kenya, finding enough food to make it through the pandemic presents an enormous challenge.
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Following Jesus means being ‘all in’
Father Bill Vos reflects on 'laying down one's life' for others in global mission
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What does a meal mean to you?
Running a food ministry during the COVID-19 lockdown gave Juan Gomez a new perspective on a plate of food.
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A listener and a healer
On any given Saturday, Agustín is on the soccer field or on his patio, sharing with and mentoring the community's kids.
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An outpouring of solidarity in doubly harsh times
Communities in El Salvador are rallying to respond to COVID-19 and Tropical Storm Amanda
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Advocating for refugees in East Africa
At Jesuit Refugee Service in Nairobi, Dee Dungy speaks up for Sudanese, Somali and Ugandan refugees
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‘Great joy and relief’ at Supreme Court upholding DACA
Maryknoll urges continuing work toward permanent solution for 'Dreamers'
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A Father’s Day reflection
What God the Father can teach us about the vocation of fatherhood
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Learning from the masters of resilience
How does the human spirit remain hopeful when suffering seems to have no end?
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Home of Hope welcomes the ‘least of these’
Missionaries of Charity home in rural Cambodia responds to new challenges during COVID-19.
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A call for anti-racist transformation
Official statement by Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners
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What Ederson de Jesus taught me
A young Brazilian man's life and death are a window into Brazil's inequality and systemic racism.
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Turning walls into bridges
Today’s Maryknoll presence at the U.S.-Mexico border continues the legacy of hope built by a previous team that worked there from 1995 until 2009.
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Missioner doctors in rural Tanzania
A video featuring physicians Anne Berry and George Stablein talking about their experiences as Maryknoll lay missioners in Tanzania
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U.S. border closure is ‘inhumane, immoral, illegal and ineffective’
Heidi Cerneka on the May 12 decision by the U.S. government to close the door on asylum seekers indefinitely.
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We’ve no salt left
A poem for George Floyd, for Ahmaud Arbery and for all — by a fed-up millennial
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