Climate change: Urgency grows at UN
The United Nations is stepping up high-level events to urge member states to take action to address climate change.
Climate action in a parish: Let there be solar light
The Diocese of Arlington’s Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish offers its experience of installing solar panels as a template for other churches to follow.
Supreme Court rules World Bank can be sued
A historic Supreme Court decision declares international organizations like the World Bank Group can be sued in U.S. courts.
Unnecessary trade
A new multimedia project by Local Futures highlights the variety of illogical and unnecessary trade deals that prop up the global economy and harm local environments and small-scale businesses and farmers.
Promoting nonviolence with the Catholic Church
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns was an organizer and participant in the second international meeting on nonviolence hosted by Pax Christi International and the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in Rome in April 2019.
Maryknoll’s 100 Years of Mission
Published in 2011, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, the first of the three branches of the Maryknoll Missioners.
Follow-up Workshop on Nonviolence at the Vatican
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns collaborated with Pax Christi International in organizing this important workshop April 4-5, 2019.
Trump Administration’s Latest Actions on Central America Will Fuel Migration, Not Address It
The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joins over 40 U.S.-based faith, human rights, foreign policy, humanitarian, immigrant rights and border-based civil society organizations in a statement to express deep concern over the Trump Administration’s latest actions on Central America including the wholesale cutoffs of assistance to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
World Water Day 2019
Defenders of water and land are being killed at alarming rates.
Hanoi Summit: Short on diplomacy and treaty
On February 27 and 28, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump met in Hanoi for their second summit, a meeting which abruptly ended without an agreement.
Venezuela: Pain of hunger, fear of violence
The drumbeat for war has been growing louder in recent weeks. How alarmed should we be?
Geo-engineering: False solution to climate change
The following article debunks myths about geoengineering and the belief that it can create “negative emissions” with carbon capture and storage technologies.