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Maryknoll Brother Ryan Thibert greets visitors outside the Salomon Klein Orphanage in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he serves in two local ministries. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

Being There: A Brother in Mission

By Ryan Thibert | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll Brother Ryan Thibert describes his mission journey, marked by listening, presence and companionship, especially for the abandoned.
Immaculate Heart Sister of Africa Margaret John Masalu, founder of St. Justin’s Centre, is shown with one of the children the center serves. (Courtesy of Erin Rickwa/Tanzania)

Bridges to Healing International

By Erin Rickwa | September 3, 2024
Maryknoll affiliate Erin Rickwa expands a project she founded to help high-risk children, Bridges to Healing International, to Tanzania.
Maryknoll Sister Norma Pocasangre (center) serves in pastoral ministry as part of a new mission recently started by the Maryknoll Sisters in the Central African country of Chad. (Courtesy of Norma Pocasangre/Chad)

A New Mission Presence in Chad

By Claudette LaVerdiere, M.M., NgocHà Pham, M.M., Norma Pocasangre, M.M. | June 3, 2024
Four Maryknoll sisters set out last year to launch the congregation’s new mission in the Central African country of Chad.
In a remote Indigenous community of the Amazon, Maryknoll Seminarians Lawrence Mutiso and Leonard Kabaka (left, right) take Communion to the homebound. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

Trial by Fire in the Amazon

By Deirdre Cornell | June 3, 2024
Four seminarians in Maryknoll’s overseas training program face arduous challenges in Bolivia, including TIPNIS, a remote area of the Amazon.
John Gauker delights in his children, Monica and Johnny; Phyllis is embraced by a woman who whispers, “I am a widow, too;” a photo shows the Gaukers and Maryknoll Father William Woods on the day of Monica’s baptism; construction workers attend a Mass for John. (Courtesy of Phyllis Gauker/Guatemala)

Martyrs of the Ixcán

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | June 3, 2024
Almost 50 years ago, lay missioner John Gauker died with Maryknoll Father Bill Woods in a suspicious plane crash in Guatemala’s Ixcán jungle.
Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia (center) celebrates Mass during the ordination to the diaconate of Charles Ogony (left) and Joshua Maondo (right) on October 21, 2023. The seminarians will be ordained Maryknoll priests on June 8, 2024. (Diane Mastrogiulio/U.S.)

Hearts on Fire

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | March 4, 2024
With hearts on fire and packed bags, three Maryknoll seminarians prepare for their ordination to priesthood on June 8, 2024.
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