Joanne Blaney: On a Mission to Restore Justice
Joanne Blaney discusses her work at the Popular Education and Human Rights Center in São Paulo.
Catholic News Service story on Larry Parr
Catholic News Service featured Larry Parr's ministry in El Salvador. The April 3, 2019 article was...
Fr. Charlie Dittmeier featured in La Croix International
Father Charlie Dittmeier, a diocesan priest and member of Maryknoll Lay Missioners, was featured...
Aim high: From flying missions to living mission
Marilyn Kott (class of 2015) was featured in the December 2018 issue of Checkpoints, the magazine...
Salvadoran TV features lay missioner’s soy project
Last year Maryknoll lay missioner Ann Greig was interviewed on Salvadoran TV about her innovative...
National Catholic Reporter covers Sending
The National Catholic Reporter's Peter Feuerherd reported on the Dec. 8, 2018 Sending Ceremony in...
CNS on the Class of 2018 and its Sending
Read Catholic News Service's coverage of the Sending Ceremony and Maryknoll Lay Missioners' new...
‘Maryknoll, miracles and medicine’
The Catholic Post, the diocesan newspaper of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, features Susan...
13 new Maryknoll missioners to be sent forth
Dec. 8 Sending Ceremony to launch 12 Maryknoll Lay Missioners and one Maryknoll Sister on their overseas missions
Maryknoll Leadership Statement on the Migrant Caravan
All four branches of Maryknoll call on U.S. leaders to 'respond with compassion and dignity worthy...
MKLM in National Catholic Reporter
Loan assistance programs help post-grad volunteers during years of service Maryknoll Lay Missioner...
MKLM in El Salvador – Rick Dixon
Jean Donovan’s Guitar This past December, Maryknoll Lay Missioner Debbie Northern (working at our...
MKLM in Tanzania
Greetings from Mwanza! The kids started a new school year at Isamilo International School in...
MKLM in Bolivia – Teresa Villaruz
Teresa Villaruz Bolivia – December 2017 “Hold Me” Greetings y’all! I officially just completed a...
Make Straight the Paths: Privilege, Inclusion, and Embracing the Future
From Maryknoll Mission Education Written by Kevin M. Foy, February 22, 2018 Sixteen years ago, the...
Susan Nagele in Kenya
Today, we share the work of Susan Nagele in Kenya through her recent newsletter. “Kenya held the...
Pope Francis calls for day of prayer and fasting for peace, especially for the DRC and South Sudan
“In the face of the tragic continuation of conflicts in different parts of the world, I invite all...
News from Joe Loney – MKLM Bolivia
We have a saying in Bolivia, if it does not rain much in January then it will really be a crazy,...
MKLM in Kenya – Project HOPE
“What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout” [Rumi] Greetings from H.O.P.E. Project!...
Meet a Missioner – Kathleen Flatoff – Kenya – Class of 2017
Today we continue our #MeetaMissionerMonday series by introducing one of our newest missioners,...
Learning from the masters of resilience
How does the human spirit remain hopeful when suffering seems to have no end?
Home of Hope welcomes the ‘least of these’
Missionaries of Charity home in rural Cambodia responds to new challenges during COVID-19.
A call for anti-racist transformation
Official statement by Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners
What Ederson de Jesus taught me
A young Brazilian man’s life and death are a window into Brazil’s inequality and systemic racism.
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.
Missioner doctors in rural Tanzania
A video featuring physicians Anne Berry and George Stablein talking about their experiences as Maryknoll lay missioners in Tanzania
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.
We’ve no salt left
A poem for George Floyd, for Ahmaud Arbery and for all — by a fed-up millennial
Making do during unpredictable times
While teaching during the COVID-19 crisis, returned missioner Steve Pohl applies what he learned in Bolivia from wrestling with shortages, grief, sudden changes, and the need to improvise.
Celebrating an unusual Ramadan
‘Breaking the fast’ and ‘feeding the hungry’ take on new meaning during COVID-19
Danos Hoy Nuestro Pan de Cada Día
A medida que la cuarentena de Bolivia afecta más a las personas sin hogar, Juan Gómez y Cortney Freshwater están proporcionando comidas diarias.
Online classes and food emergencies in São Paulo
Margarita Duran continues to teach immigrant children and encounters food insecurity in one of the main epicenters of the pandemic.
HOPE Project helps families with emergency food
In Mombasa, Kenya, the pandemic is putting many additional pressures on families surviving day by day.
Hope is abundant
Steve Veryser reflects on his discernment into mission and how God ‘caught’ him.
‘Meet a Missioner Monday’ interviews
Karen Bortvedt Estrada interviews lay missioners every other Monday at 11 am EDT.
Feeding the family
Vocational school in Mombasa rallies to support its students and families during the COVID-19 crisis
‘Everything is connected’
A reflection for Laudato Si’ Week (May 16-24, 2020) from El Salvador
Missioners together
COVID-19 is separating people from their families—an occupational hazard familiar to all missioners
‘Being a missioner in a time of pandemic’
Recording of the April 29, 2020 live panel presentation with three Maryknoll lay missioners
Give us this day our daily bread
As Bolivia’s quarantine hits those who are homeless the hardest, Juan Gomez and Cortney Freshwater are providing daily meals.
How East African nations are grappling with COVID-19
An analysis by Susan Nagele for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
This Mother’s Day, ‘do not let your hearts be troubled’
Tawny Thanh reflects on the readings for this Fifth Sunday of Easter, Mother’s Day
Combating gender-based violence in Tanzania
Video interview with Liz Mach on protecting girls from female genital mutilation, child marriage and other forms of gender-based violence
Celebrating the Day of the Cross in El Salvador
Do it right, or the devil will come and dance in your home!
Waiting out COVID-19 restrictions in South Sudan’s Peace Village
Stranded in a remote area of South Sudan, Gabe Hurrish encounters the Toposa people.
Protecting Tanzanian girls from abuse
Liz Mach helps Tanzanian diocese fight female genital mutilation, child marriage and other gender-based violence.
Missioners make many masks
Lay missioners in the Tanzania region have been helping prepare for COVID-19 through several initiatives that sew protective face masks.
Heidi Cerneka rings alarm about detained migrants’ COVID-19 risk
Two of her clients released from ICE custody after lawsuit
Lessons from the good Toposa shepherds
Fourth Sunday of Easter: Susan Nagele preaches on the Good Shepherd.
Detained migrants at great risk of COVID-19
Immigration attorney Heidi Cerneka urges release of nonviolent detained migrants
Finding God’s presence in the simple moments
Board member Anita Klueg offers a video meditation for these COVID-19 times
Quarantine quandaries
Rick Dixon worries about civil rights during El Salvador’s state of emergency and reflects on the unsatiated eucharistic hunger in his parish.
A letter from João Pessoa, Brazil
Missioner family adjusts to sheltering-in-place by moving ministries online
‘Were not our hearts burning within us?’
Becca Muder reflects on the ‘Road to Emmaus’ story
‘COVID-2050’: A threat to take seriously
An Earth Day 2020 reflection: What if we took environmental destruction as seriously as COVID-19?
What’s the next right step?
A report on the ‘Discerning Through Service’ retreat at the U.S.-Mexico border
Spring 2020 issue of Voices of Compassion
Cover story features lay missioners combating climate change
A seat at the table
Board member Bob Carlsen has felt the pull of the Maryknoll spirit since grade school.
Millennials in mission
Five Maryknollers reflect on what it’s like to be a young adult lay missioner
Praise be to you! — Laudato si’
A prayer of commitment to our covenant with creation
Combating climate change
Maryknoll lay missioners accompany the most affected, teach sustainable practices and raise awareness
Heidi Cerneka quoted in Buzzfeed
On the perils for older detainees in ICE custody.
The sitch on the stitch
Maryknollers in Haiti sew protective face masks for their community.
Love in the time of quarantine
Finding new ways to “love thy neighbor” during Bolivia’s COVID-19 lockdown
My Holy Week journal
Spending an unusual Holy Week in Mombasa, Kenya, during COVID-19
Rediscovering the spirit of the resurrection
In the midst of the pandemic, communities are coming together to live out the message of hope in the resurrection
South Sudanese perseverance
Having suffered for generations, South Sudanese are mentally prepared for this coronavirus.
7,000 bars of soap
In an informal settlement in Kenya, bars of soap and an emergency fund to help families through the pandemic
Stopping a Cambodian holiday during COVID-19
This week’s Khmer New Year is the most important holiday in Cambodia.
The narrow place
COVID-19 renews the question: How can a loving God let so many people suffer and die?
