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Spreading God’s Love and Hope for
Over 100 Years

The world needs missionaries. It needs you to share the light and the joy that you have found in Jesus.

– Pope Leo XIV

Missionaries know from experience that the Gospel of forgiveness and mercy can bring joy and reconciliation, justice and peace.

– Pope Francis

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Our Impact Around the World

A woman gives rice to a woman refugee with a baby wrapped in a sarong on her back

Fr. John Barth, M.M.

Asia

Assistance to Refugees and Migrants

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A refugee woman from Burma is sitting in a grass shelter holding her sleeping baby in her arms

Fr. John Barth, M.M.

Asia

Relief and Education for Burmese Refugees at Wat Prok Mon Temple

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Maryknoll Missioners helping in Africa

Fr. Lance P. Nadeau, M.M.

Africa

Food Assistance Kenya

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A group of Bolivian adults in a classroom seminar focused on spirituality for personal transformation

Fr. Gregory McPhee, M.M.

Latin America

Pastoral Counseling

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Children eat lunch at the soup kitchen at the Parish of Cristo Resucitado in Chile

Bro. John J. Nitsch, M.M.

Latin America

Parroquia Cristo Resucitado Curicó, Chile

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A woman and her two young children look directly at the camera

Fr. Joseph Fedora, M.M.

Latin America

“Hogar de Vida” AIDS Shelter for Women and Children

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Two orphans learning to become more independent at school in Tanzania

Fr. Hung M. Dinh, M.M.

Africa

Scholarships for the Orphanage Students

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Fr. Paul M. Sykora tutors 3 small children sitting at a table in Bolivia

Fr. Paul M. Sykora, M.M.

Latin America

School Tutoring Program

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A large group of migrant workers and new immigrants stand in prayer in a large community room in Taiwan

Fr. Joyalito Tajonera, M.M

Asia

Migrant Ministry to Foreign Migrant Workers and New Immigrants in Taiwan

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A woman helps a newborn baby being held in her mother's arms.

Fr. Edward Phillips, M.M.

Africa

Maternity Delivery Service

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A man in a field of crops clears weeds with a hoe.

Fr. John Siyumbu, M.M.

Africa

Sustainable Food Generation Project Using Modern Farming Methods

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A Calling of a Lifetime

Are you called to a life of mission, to live the sacraments and preach the gospel by feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and reaching out to outcasts?

A Calling of a Lifetime
A Calling of a Lifetime
Fathers Rodrigo and Okok posing for a picture
A Path With Us

A Path With Us

The mission of the Maryknoll Vocations Ministry team is to facilitate and accompany Maryknoll prospects interested in a lifetime commitment to priesthood or brotherhood during their process of discernment for mission. 

A Lifetime of Mission

Motivated by love and challenged by the Gospel – we reach across borders, geographical and situational, and build bridges of solidarity among the poor and marginalized that reflect God’s merciful love and compassion.

Maryknoll Father Mike Bassano helps an elderly woman.
A Lifetime of Mission

Responding to urgent needs

Students at the St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School, Kenya

Protecting Girls in Kenya

St. Charles Lwanga School provides education, shelter, medical care, recreation programs and basic needs…

A woman sits and prays with her eyes closed as she waits for medical care from the Eastern Deanery

Outpatient Clinical Services

EDARP (Eastern Deanery) plans to open an inexpensive Outpatient Clinical Service. One of their core targeted patient groups is their…

A Tanzanian man prays in church

Ongoing Education for African Clergy

The Africa Region will provide tuition assistance to Africa clergy and male and female religious at institutes of higher education…

Featured Maryknoll Stories

Maryknoll Father Joyalito Tajonera, who serves in Taiwan, ministers to migrant fishers as part of the Catholic Church’s worldwide apostolate providing pastoral care to seafarers. (Paul Jeffrey/Taiwan)

Fishing for Justice in Taiwan

Gerald Mustago left his home in the Philippines eight years ago to become a fisher in Taiwan, home to the world’s second largest…

Father Joaquín Álvarez Campos and Maryknoll Father John Spain (right) visit the tomb of Saint Óscar Romero in San Salvador’s cathedral. (Octavio Durán/El Salvador)

‘Guard This Treasure’

In the city of San Salvador, a street mural portrays a memorable Mass. One side of the painted altar shows images of devastation. On the other…

Heidy Sánchez, deported to Havana, Cuba, cries after talking to her daughter, a toddler, in Florida. Deportation protections have been ended for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. (OSV News/Mario Fuentes/Reuters/Cuba)

The Darkness of This Time

My commute each morning begins before dawn. Usually I welcome the darkness, which provides coolness, stillness and time for reflection…

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Your Prayers and Gifts are the Lifeblood of Compassionate Missions

Pictured: The Maryknolll founders Eucharistic chalice.

Explore Our Causes

We are grateful to those who support our many projects in service. Every prayer said on our behalf, every gift made, and every friend who has made sacrifices to keep God’s mission alive are the lifeblood of Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.

Your gifts establish churches, bring sacraments to rural villages, build schools, feed the hungry, provide clean water for drinking and producing income-generating farms, protect the basic, inalienable rights of all people, provide humanitarian relief while globally sharing the Gospel with all of God’s people.

Maryknoll magazine is the flagship publication of Maryknoll. It has chronicled our mission for 100+ years to serve the poor and suffering around the world.

La revista Maryknoll es la publicación insignia de Maryknoll. Ha sido una crónica de nuestra misión durante más de 100 años de servir a los pobres y que sufren en todo el mundo.

Magazine | Misioneros

Winter 2026 Cover - Uganda

Maryknoll Magazine

Maryknoll Magazine is the flagship publication of Maryknoll. It has chronicled our mission for 100+ years to serve the poor and suffering around the world.


Winter 2026 Cover - Uganda

Misioneros Maryknoll

La revista Maryknoll es la publicación insignia de Maryknoll. Ha sido una crónica de nuestra misión durante más de 100 años de servir a los pobres y que sufren en todo el mundo.


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Over One Hundred Years of History

For over 100 years, Maryknoll Missioners have modeled themselves after the compassion of Jesus in reaching out to those in the world who are the most in need. Grounded in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers partner with local churches to bring compassion, relief, and the message of God’s love to the poor on the fringes of society. To learn more about Maryknoll’s history, click here.

Pope St. Pius X

Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Founded

June 29, 1911
A modest farmhouse served as the Society's first home

Society’s First Home

December 4, 1911

First “Secretaries” Arrive

January 6, 1912
Thomas McCann becomes the first Maryknoll Brother

Thomas McCann becomes the first Maryknoll Brother

April 27, 1912
Mary Josephine Rogers sits with a group of women posing for a photograph.

Mary Josephine Rogers named Directress

September 15, 1912
Leaving for Maryknoll's new mission field in South China are Fathers Francis X. Ford (seated, right), Bernard Meyer (standing), co-founder Thomas F. Price (seated, center) and James E. Walsh (seated, left).

Maryknoll’s first mission: South China

Sep 7, 1918
Groundbreaking for new Society Seminary building at Maryknoll, New York

Groundbreaking for the new Society Seminary building

Jun 29, 1920
Missions open in Manila, Philippines
January 22, 1926

In January, the Congregation begins mission work and the Society follows eight months later.

Missions open in Manila, Philippines

Jan 22, 1926

Our Mission Center in Ossining, NY

Visiting the Maryknoll Society Center