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Abdul Mannan Khan and his disabled son Abu Mosa Khan meet with Father Robert Terence McCahill at their home in Munshigonj district, Bangladesh, on Nov. 18, 2025. The priest visits villages daily to find disabled children and connect them with medical treatment.

Father Bob and his bicycle: How this 88-year-old priest serves Bangladesh’s disabled children

Dec 1, 2025

By Stephan Uttom Rozario

Father Robert Terence McCahill cares for poor disabled people in Bangladesh. Ths week marks 50 years of service for the... Read more

Fr. Gerard Hammond, M.M. of the Maryknoll Missionaries.

What it's like to be a missionary in North Korea

Aug 9, 2017

What can a missionary in North Korea do to preach the Gospel in a Communist dictatorship? Simply care for the... Read more

Maryknoll Fr. Gerard Hammond speaks at the 2017 Knights of Columbus Convention after receiving the Gaudium et Spes Award. Photo courtesy of the Knights of Columbus.

What a missionary to North Korea told the Knights of Columbus convention

Aug 2, 2017

Service to the poor on the peripheries of society was a theme of the 2017 Knights of Columbus States Dinner... Read more

Bishop Patrick Byrne, apostolic delegate to Korea from 1949 until his Nov. 25, 1950 death in a North Korean prison camp.

How an American bishop became a Korean martyr

Mar 26, 2017

By Kevin J. Jones

Bishop Patrick James Byrne was born in the United States, but he died on a forced march in the harsh... Read more

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the sixty-third session of the UN General Assembly, at a press conference Nov. 11, 2008.

Suspension of Nicaraguan Maryknoll priest lifted

Aug 4, 2014

Pope Francis has revoked the 'suspension a divinis' of Fr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, who was in 1984 barred from exercising... Read more