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Korean born Alfonso Kim spent his childhood in Argentina and now leads mass for parishioners in Japan. This film provides an intimate look at this Maryknoll missioner's journey to better understand Japanese culture and spread Christian teachings.

In rural Tanzania, education for girls is considered by many families to be an unaffordable luxury. Young women are expected to marry, raise children, keep a home, and work in the fields. At the Murigha Community School for Girls, founded by Maryknoll Sister Darlene Jacobs, a quiet revolution is taking place. Students learn practical skills and attitudes that transform them into independent, self-confident women. The institution also serves the Msange...

This film looks at Father Jose Padin, a Maryknoll missioner from Puerto Rico, as he serves a village in the Nissia Province of Mozambique. A trained counselor, he talks to civil war survivors about their experiences in an effort to heal psychological wounds and build trust and lasting peace among the Metangula community. Local development initiatives include building small scale corn mills and providing medicine to counteract a high child mortality...

The second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written, including the letters between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau written during the ten years before their marriage.

Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their...

This film joins Maryknoll Sister Ann Marie Braudis as she works with the Philippines' Cordillera people to defend land they regard as sacred against open-pit gold mining operations. They have practiced small scale, cooperative mining on Luzon for generations, but their water and soil are becoming contaminated by toxic chemicals from tailings ponds. The sister and her local interpreter Mercy DeLawan raise international support and awareness for environmental...

Maryknoll lay missioner Pete Byrne and former child of the streets Andres Zuniga volunteer at a home for street children in Lima, Peru. This film provides an intimate look at life inside Hogar Santa Maria where the boys learn security, predictability, and a sense of belonging. Byrne and a team of volunteers focus on caring for the human rights of children.