Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns will hold webinars on policy issues relevant to the United States elections, which are only two months away.
The following article was published in the September-October 2024 issue of NewsNotes.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is offering a series of webinars to educate our audience on issues of policy that are significant to the Maryknoll family as we near the 2024 United States elections. Our hope is to share insights from the lived experiences of missioners on topics of policy that will be of interest to faithful voters or concerned global citizens.
The webinars and details are as follows:
Peace, War, and Human Rights
Wednesday, October 2
6pm ET | 3pm PT
Dan Moriarty, Peace and Nonviolence senior program officer, will address the global peace and nonviolence issues that we hope the candidates will address.
Faithful Stewardship of Creation
Wednesday, October 9
6pm ET | 3pm PT
Lisa Sullivan, Integral Ecology senior program officer, will cover the environmental concerns the next U.S. President must confront.
Debt Relief in a Jubilee Year
Wednesday, October 16
6pm ET | 3pm PT
Susan Gunn, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns will share the need for debt relief to developing countries and the impact the presidency can have on the issue.
Faith-based Migrant Justice
Wednesday, October 23
6pm ET | 3pm PT
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka, immigration lawyer in El Paso, Texas,
Maryknoll Sister Susan Nchubiri, program associate at MOGC, and
Iqbal Ahmad, Fellow of the University of Notre Dame Kroc Institute
will discuss the much needed immigration fixes needed and what the next U.S. president can do to uphold the human dignity of migrants around the world.
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