Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

Welcome to the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. Our office serves Maryknoll missioners by providing analysis and advocacy on justice and peace issues that affect the communities where Maryknollers live and work.

Maryknoll missioners work in approximately 40 countries around the world. A commitment to protecting all life engages them in critical issues that affect communities they now call home. We emphasize global solidarity, plus the transformation of systems and structures that perpetuate injustice, oppression and environmental destruction as well as the identification of those that promote human dignity and ecological well-being.

U.S. Elections 2008
Loving our neighbor in a shrinking world
Voter's guide, Maryknoll Leadership Statement and Links on Election 2008

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From the Nairobi Climate Change Conference to the Bali UN FCCC: An African preface to an Asian mandate
Maryknoll leadership statement on Iraq war, March 2008
Ready, Aim, Foreign Policy: A report from the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, Center for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America
Policy paper on Iraq war from Center of Concern and Pax Christi USA, March 2008
The Story of Stuff
Global Climate Change: The most critical challenge in the 21st century
Reflections from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
(May 9, 2007)
Impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in countries
where Maryknollers work (PDF file)


The history of Maryknoll in Latin America is rich and deep. Our commitment to the promotion of social justice and peace in the region cost several of our missioners their lives during the years of oppression, including Father Bill Woods, MM in Guatemala (1976), Sisters Ita Ford, MM, Maura Clarke, MM and Carla Piete, MM in El Salvador in 1980. Some, like Father Miguel D’Escoto in Nicaragua, have served in very public roles in support of the poor. Read more...	As Asia’s population approaches four billion, or more than half of the world’s population, the continent presents startling contrasts of wealth and poverty. While its governments range from the autocratic to the democratic, Asia has the potential for exponential economic growth and significant advances in science, health and technology. But the cost of development must take social justice and environmental values into account. Read More ...

Our concern for Africa is shaped by long term relationsips between Maryknoll missioners and the people of the Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia. We honor their strength and wisdom and believe that African cultures and traditions often suggest solutions to seemingly intractable local and global problems. Read more...	For many U.S. residents, the Middle East might conjure an image of a deeply religious yet extremely violent society, a region in which life and death – and martyrdom – take on new meaning. However, the reality is far more complex than the daily news headlines. U.S. foreign policy likewise takes a narrow view of the Middle East. People in the U.S. are presumed to have a stake in the region’s political future since its oil powers the U.S. economy. Read more...

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