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Father Daniel Kim, M.M. conducting mass
Fr. Daniel Kim, M.M., celebrating Mass in Hong Kong.
Brother Ryan Thibert, M.M.
Brother Ryan Thibert, M.M.
Father William Mullan at Mass in Guatemala
Father William Mullan at Mass in Guatemala
Brother Wayne J. Fitzpatrick, M.M.
Brother Wayne J. Fitzpatrick, M.M.

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

Mission Rosary

Inspired by the World Mission Rosary

The colors in this section reflect the World Mission Rosary, a prayer for the Church’s mission around the world. Red represents the Americas, yellow represents Asia, and green represents Africa. Each story below reflects that mission in action.
A woman gives rice to a woman refugee with a baby wrapped in a sarong on her back

Asia

A Hand to Hold: 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

Asia

Refuge and Learning: Relief and Education for Burmese Refugees at Wat Prok Mon Temple 

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Maryknoll Missioners helping in Africa

Africa

Bread for the Journey: Food Assistance in Kenya 

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Exaltación de la Santa Cruz, Chipiriri

Latin America

Gathered in Faith: Christian Base Communities 

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Classroom of adults

Latin America

Healing Hearts: Pastoral Counseling in Bolivia 

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

Latin America

A Parish for All: Cristo Resucitado Parish Ministry 

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

Latin America

A Home to Heal: Hogar de Vida Shelter for Women and Children 

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Two orphans learning to become more independent at school in Tanzania

Africa

A Future Reclaimed: Scholarships for Orphaned Students 

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

Latin America

Every Child Can Learn: The School Tutoring Project 

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Priest standing at lectern.

Asia

Far From Home, Not Alone: Migrant Ministry to Foreign Workers and New Immigrants 

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

Africa

Safe Arrivals: Maternity Delivery Service 

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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

Fr. Dennis Moorman, M.M. leads a procession of people in the street.

Parish Evangelization Program

Where there are two or more, there is the grace of God and the faithful are generally blessed to have a place to worship under this…

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…

Children singing in the Taichung Diocese, Taiwan

St. Cecilia String Orchestra

Music is a wonderful connector for human beings and in Taiwan, Father Anderson has seen this come to life through…

Featured Maryknoll Stories

Maryknoll Lay Missioners Stephen and Loyce Veryser, with their three children, serve as a family in mission in Tanzania.

Finding Love in Mission, Again and Again

Maryknoll Lay Missioners Stephen and Loyce Veryser, with their three children, serve as a family in mission in Tanzania.

Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers sponsors wells and water storage systems for parishes in a drought-stricken region of Kenya.

Water Flows in Kibwezi

Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers sponsors wells and water storage systems for parishes in a drought-stricken region of Kenya.

A young woman in Chicago who now works for Maryknoll reports on joining archdiocesan efforts to minister to and advocate for immigrants.

Lighting Candles of Hope

A young woman in Chicago who now works for Maryknoll reports on joining archdiocesan efforts to minister to and advocate for immigrants.

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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

The cover of the Maryknoll Magazine Fall 2026 issue featuring Father Victor Mutobera, Maryknoll’s newest priest.

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.


MISIONEROS
ES UNA REVISTA DE LOS PADRES Y HERMANOS MARYKNOLL

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
Three women, the first

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