by Marj Humphrey | Jul 25, 2025
In the quiet shade of mango trees across Northern Uganda, Maryknoll lay missioners Marj Humphrey and Joanne Blaney met with parish leaders, teachers, and refugees who are putting lessons of healing, nonviolence, and restorative justice into practice. From remote village churches to camps along the South Sudan border, these open-air gatherings have become places of listening, courage, and renewal. Here, amid deep scars of conflict and loss, communities are finding new ways to mend relationships and move forward—together.
by Marj Humphrey | Jun 23, 2025
In 1995, the massacre in Atiak, Uganda, claimed scores of lives—but unlike tragedies elsewhere, it passed with little notice from the world. Thirty years later, Maryknoll lay missioner Marj Humphrey returns to the place that has haunted her memory, bearing witness to both the scars of the past and the quiet perseverance of those who remain.
by Maryknoll Lay Missioners | Apr 29, 2025
Marj Humphrey’s return to mission to East Africa earlier this year was covered in the Spring 2025 issue of Gonzaga Magazine, the publication of her alma mater.
by Marj Humphrey | Apr 8, 2025
In a region long haunted by the terror of violence, memories of war—stolen childhoods, ruptured families, and unspeakable loss—underpin daily life in northern Uganda. Yet voices rise—and not in vengeance. Here, survivors and peacemakers gather in quiet circles, daring to believe that healing begins by facing the past with courage and compassion. Missioner Marj Humphrey joins them in restoring dignity and reconciling relationships.
by Elvira Ramirez | Dec 22, 2024
We invite you to join us in walking with Josh Sisolak and Marj Humphrey as they go forth to love and serve in their respective journeys to Bolivia and East Africa. Together with them, and all our missioners around the world, let us renew our own mission!
by Jennifer Tomshack | Dec 11, 2024
Maryknoll lay missioners were commissioned to serve in Bolivia and East Africa during a Sending Ceremony in Ossining, New York on Dec. 7, 2024.
by Marj Humphrey | Dec 1, 2024
Starting in 1987, Marj Humphrey served as a Maryknoll lay missioner in East Africa for 20 years. Upon her return to the United States, she served on Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ board of directors, then as director of missions for six years until she retired. 2025 marks her return from retirement—and to mission in her beloved East Africa.
by Jennifer Tomshack | Nov 3, 2024
Returned missioner Marj Humphrey dedicated two decades to addressing health disparities in East Africa. At long last, she’s going back to continue advocating for justice there.
by Marj Humphrey | Mar 2, 2022
Paul Farmer’s death last week reminded Marj Humphrey of the significant impact he had on her and her Kenyan clinic.
by Vicki Armour-Hileman | Apr 13, 2021
For decades Maryknoll lay missioners have accompanied communities in South Sudan, as they have struggled to heal their divided nation.
