To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies
A Catholic catechist coordinates cross-border aid to 43 separate groups of people displaced by the brutal violence that followed a 2021 military coup in Myanmar.
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by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | Burma, catechists, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Maryknolls, Myanmar, News, Thailand | 0 |
A Catholic catechist coordinates cross-border aid to 43 separate groups of people displaced by the brutal violence that followed a 2021 military coup in Myanmar.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2022 | Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Japan, Maryknolls, Mining, New Mexico, News, religious sister | 0 |
Maryknoll Sister Rose Marie Cecchini never expected to spend so much of her ministry — and for such a lengthy period — helping the state’s tribal peoples deal with the literal fallout of uranium mining.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Archdiocese of New York, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Maryknolls, Military chaplains, News, saints and martyrs, U.S. Military, U.S. Navy, US Archdiocese for the Military Services, Vietnam War | 0 |
On the 55th anniversary of his death in Vietnam, Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno was remembered at a Mass celebrated in his hometown in a chapel that bears his name.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Maryknolls, News, Obituary | 0 |
Gerry Lee, former director of both Maryknoll Lay Missioners and the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, died July 24 surrounded by family at his cabin home in Cle Elum, Washington, of pancreatic cancer. He was 72.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 23, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, displaced persons, Maryknolls, News, South Sudan | 0 |
For thousands of displaced people who have found refuge inside a United Nations base in Malakal, a town in war-torn South Sudan, it’s a daily struggle to find food, water and medicine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 23, 2022 | abuse of nuns, Catholic News Service, Christian martyrs, Church in the Americas, Civil war, El Salvador, Latin America, Maryknolls, News, Religious Sisters, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
Representatives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops celebrated Mass Jan. 20 at the tomb of two Maryknoll sisters from the U.S. buried in El Salvador and called them “martyrs” and “models” for the Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 18, 2021 | Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, laity, Maryknolls, New York, News, religious | 0 |
Thirteen new Maryknoll lay missioners were officially sent into mission Dec. 11 to minister in six countries around the world: Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Kenya, Tanzania and the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Maryknolls, News, St. Paul-Minneapolis | 0 |
Marty Roers, a returned Maryknoll lay missioner who over the past 18 years has been a leader in global justice advocacy and mission education, is the 2021 recipient of the Bishop John E. McCarthy Spirit of Mission Award.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 16, 2021 | Catholic News Service, China, Chinese Catholics, Church in Asia, Hong Kong, Maryknolls, News, Religious Sisters | 0 |
It was 100 years ago — on Sept. 12, 1921 — when the Maryknoll Sisters assigned its first group of sisters to China, the order’s first mission.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 5, 2021 | Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Creighton University, Laudato Si, Laudato Si' Movement, Maryknolls, News | 0 |
It was after reading Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” that Emily Burke began wondering what she could do to help protect the environment.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Africa, Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Maryknolls, News, Nuns, Obituary, Religious Sisters, Zimbabwe | 0 |
Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin, who ministered in southern Africa for nearly 40 years and later became president of her religious order, died March 7 in Maryknoll, New York, at age 79. No cause of death was given.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2020 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Maryknolls, News | 0 |
Mass incarceration. Racial inequality. Excessive use of force by police. Maryknoll lay missioner Joanne Blaney says these complaints, so common in the U.S., are also frequently heard in Brazil.
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