Brazil: Deforestation decreases
While unable to win the World Cup this year, Brazil has become the champion in another, more important area, becoming the country with the largest reductions in the rates of deforestation and carbon emissions.
Latin America united against Israeli attacks on Gaza
Latin American nations have had strong negative reactions to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, the term used for its recent military operation against Hamas, threatening to set back Israeli-Latin America relations that had been growing in recent years.
65 national religious groups, academics, ministers urge alternatives to U.S. military action in Iraq
The following letter was sent on August 27, 2014.
Israel-Palestine: Maryknoll urges immediate end to violence
On Tuesday, July 22, the following letter was sent to President Obama (and copied to members of Congress); it was signed by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and several other members of the Faith Forum.
Urgent: Stop cuts to refugee services; help unaccompanied children
The following alert is circulated by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Gaza in crisis, updated August 20
Fr. Jack Sullivan MM has prepared the following round-up of information about the current crisis in Palestine and Israel.
Free trade: Threat to food safety, security
Alex Bianco, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns’ Faith Economy Ecology project, contributed to this article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Detainees held in "iceboxes"
Brittany McKinley, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, contributed to this article which was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Migration: Crisis on two borders
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) recently published Mexico’s Other Border Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis between Guatemala and Mexico.
UN: Report on fifth biennial meeting on SALW
The following article, written by Sr. Claris Zwareva, was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Iraq: Urgent need for regional political solution
The following piece was submitted by Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International, and published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.
Thailand: Military coup disrupts democracy
The following article was published in the July-August 2014 NewsNotes.