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Babluu Ekama Kyamba volunteers in a Nairobi slum with Mama Africa, a service organization, as part of a Maryknoll discernment program for the missionary priesthood. (Paul Jeffrey/Kenya)

Bearing Fruit in Africa

By Paul Jeffrey | June 1, 2026
Young African men begin their journey to the missionary priesthood as seminarians at the Maryknoll house in Nairobi.
Maryknoll Sister Esther Warioba, who professed her final vows last year, regularly visits 20 inmates in five prisons. The missioner, originally from Tanzania, offers a lifeline of support for international prisoners, many of whom are victims of human trafficking, as a volunteer for the nonprofit Voice for Prisoners. (Paul Jeffrey/Hong Kong)

Letters from a Hong Kong Prison

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | June 1, 2026
A Maryknoll sister in Hong Kong volunteers with Voice for Prisoners, a ministry that assists victims of human trafficking who were used as drug “mules.”
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Kathleen Bond, Maryknoll Sisters Azucena San Pedro and Euphrasia “Efu” Nyaki (center, wearing head covering) and staff Bruna Ferreira and Mylenna Kerollin host students at AFYA Holistic Health Center. The center was cofounded in 2000 by Sister Nyaki and the late Maryknoll Sister Connie Pospisil. “Afya” means “health” in Swahili, the language of Sister Nyaki’s homeland, Tanzania. (Courtesy of Kathleen Bond/Brazil)

Teaching Peace in Public Schools

By Kathleen Bond | June 1, 2026
Maryknoll lay missioners, Maryknoll sisters and the staff of a holistic healing center launch a project in public schools in João Pessoa, Brazil.
Franciscan Brother Octavio Durán presents the shoes St. Óscar Romero wore when he was martyred to Sister Tránsito de la Cruz (center), superior of the Missionary Carmelites of St. Teresa local community, and Sister Reina Mancía, caretaker of the memorial museum at Divine Providence Hospital in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Courtesy of Octavio Durán/El Salvador)

A Saint’s Final Footsteps

By Octavio Duran, OFM | March 5, 2026
Franciscan Brother Octavio Durán relates how he returned Archbishop Óscar Romero’s shoes to their homeland of El Salvador during a Maryknoll pilgrimage.
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