BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebrates the support given to 15 projects for peace and justice during this year’s Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz grant cycle. The Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz was established in 2018 and empowers small, grassroots groups around the world doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.
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Last year, women, girls and allies all across Mexico took to the streets to engage in massive demonstrations to raise awareness about the violence against women and girls in the country. At our most recent BPFNA board meeting, Vice President Veró Garibay-Bravo shared an update on what's currently happening with the women's movement in 2021.
Throughout history, women in every part of the world have made great strides, sometimes in spite of a significant lack of equality. With the help of women such as Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks, and Marsha P. Johnson, the gap in equality in areas such as gender, race, and sexual orientation has become more and more narrow. Currently, we are very fortunate that these women and so many more have made these strides, but we still have a long way to go - and part of it comes from the way we approach feminism even among each other as women.
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Gail here on behalf of your Board of Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, bringing you Advent greetings, a brief year end reflection and an announcement. I don’t know about you but this whole year has felt like the season of Advent. A waiting in the dark for light to be birthed once again. So from this year-long preparation, what do we want to remember from it?
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September 26, 2020 marked six years since that tragic night in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, which shaped the country and shocked the world: the disappearance of the 43 students from the “Raúl Isidro Burgos” Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa. Six years later, it continues to do the same. It is worth remembering and reflecting on what happened on that tragic night.
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On Saturday, August 29, God allowed me to enjoy the wonderful experience of listening to reflections and sharing worship with many brothers and sisters in Christ from the continents of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. A reflection that deeply moved me was made by Jesús Vera. He spoke of the massacre that occurred in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on August 22, 2010. The state in which I live.
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As is often the case in a crisis, this coronavirus pandemic has revealed the true character of many people. Although there are many negative and discouraging stories, there are also countless inspiring stories that have emerged in the past few weeks of people doing what they can to help others, including neighbors and friends, as well as complete strangers. One of those inspiring stories occurred in the city where I live: Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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In Comitán you do not have to ask for fresh products to be delivered to your home. From time immemorial, "the basket makers" have come to your house offering you products (fruits, vegetables, flowers, seeds, legumes, sweet herbs), which they themselves cut or collect, hours before, in their orchards and cornfields. In times of the pandemic, the basket makers have had some difficulties because the departure times of public transport are further spaced and the number of passengers has been restricted in order to guarantee, as far as possible, a healthy distance. Some communities initially took very strict measures regarding people going in and out, but being unable to make it economically, they have to be lax about mobility bans.
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Amid constant bad news and terrifying figures from the Covid-19 pandemic, reasonably hopeful experiences emerge, where community organizing and food autonomy, amid deprivation and distance, keep away the spread of the virus. This is the case of the Nahua, Otomi and Tenek communities in the northern mountain range (Sierra) of Veracruz and the Huasteca, in an area where the states of Hidalgo and Puebla also meet.
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As the COVID-19 outbreak spreads throughout the world, governments of different countries have adopted measures of confinement and suspension of activities to prevent its spread. This has given us a look into nature long hidden by smoke and pollution. However, international experts and environmentalists have warned that this "respite" to the planet is only temporary. John Sauven, CEO of Greenpeace UK, stated that no health crisis or economic downturn or other type of disaster will give us a safer and more environmentally friendly world.
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(Drawing created by Cristian Hernandez). "Sister, listen! This is your fight", women who saw us pass raised their fists, chanted the slogans, followed the rhythm of the drums, cried. Weeks before, the horrendous murder of the young woman Ingrid Escamilla at the hands of her partner and the disappearance and murder of Fátima Aldrighett (five years old), along with the mishandling of the stories by the media and the authorities in both cases were triggers for the outrage of the nation. “Enough is enough”. In a country where murders are no longer news, where 3,000 women die every year just for being women, these two cases aroused outrage at impunity, disgust at dehumanization, satiety over violence and injustice of the corrupt system in which we have lived for so many years.
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After losing its properties in 2014 and, therefore, its main source of financing, the Seminario Bautista de México (SBM) in Mexico City focused on redesigning its training program. Its leaders listened to the needs of the Indigenous churches and gathered information from the marginal zones around Mexico City where it has served several decades. At the same time they had to balance these needs in accordance with the school’s financial reality. As a result, they created a comprehensive training program that will bring quality education to sectors of the population who have been socially and economically marginalized by the dominant society and culture. These people have also been marginalized in educational, biblical, theological and pastoral formation by the churches and seminaries that are part of that same dominant culture.
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Embracing a world where peace, equity and justice prevail is to provide a stronghold amidst the tremors and earthquakes that bring death, despair and injustice in our communities. How we face these tremors will define our witness and our legacy for those following in our footprints.
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Join us in welcoming Rubén David Bonilla Ramos as our Spanish Editor for Baptist Peacemaker and Ximena Ulloa Montemayor as our 2020 Summer Conference Coordinator!
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My son has Asperger’s, which is one of the various autism spectrum disorders, and I think if your son or daughter has Autism, Asperger’s, Down Syndrome or any condition that makes him or her be different from the average, Is a great gift from God!
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The newly created Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz will support six projects in 2019. This fund gives grants to empower small, grassroots groups doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.
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When I decided to participate in the Immersion in Tijuana 2018 experience, I had no idea of what it will mean to my life. There were plenty of experiences lived in this immersion, yet I would like to highlight some that impacted my life the most.
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Recently we have been listening a lot in Mexico, thanks to the information disseminated in the media and social networks, about the phenomenon of the migrant caravan that began its journey through Mexico from October 2018, with the objective of reaching The United States of America.
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We've signed on to this Mexican-led effort in partnership with many of our friends and partner organizations in Mexico.
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In Mexico, we have been talking a lot about amnesty in recent months due to the "amnesty" policy which the new government led by the next President of the Republic Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to implement when they take office on December 1.
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