Our Work

• In Africa, our work address transnational issues of great concern to the world: deep and endemic poverty; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the call for the cancellation of illegitimate and overwhelming debt that worsen poverty; just trade agreements; the rights of women and children; and environmental degradation.
• In Asia, Maryknoll personnel act as partners in diverse apostolates – in parish ministry, health work and education. Missioners work with persons with HIV/AIDS and with special needs. They support those living on the margins – the displaced, refugees, foreign workers – as they seek to promote peace, social justice and the integrity of creation.
• Our commitment to the promotion of social justice and peace in the Latin America region cost several of our missioners their lives during the years of oppression, including Sisters Ita Ford, MM, Maura Clarke, MM, and Carla Piette, MM, in El Salvador in 1980. Among the particular concerns of Maryknoll in Latin America are poverty, migration and refugees, health care, the rights and dignity of women and children, the growth in gang violence, mining concessions, just trade agreements, debt cancellation, small and subsistence farming and other work accessible to the poor.
• Maryknoll Sisters maintains a small Middle Eastern presence, engaging respectfully with other Christian denominations and with Jews and Muslims. Our goal is to promote the welfare of the region’s 187 million people.