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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En el apogeo de la pandemia de coronavirus en abril de 2020, y con el apoyo de BPFNA y otros socios, CLA se acercó con ayuda y apoyo entre los refugiados de Sudán del Sur en el norte de Uganda. El objetivo del proyecto era sensibilizar a las comunidades de refugiados y de acogida sobre el COVID-19, proporcionar artículos de higiene para prevenir su propagación y proporcionar raciones de alimentos de maíz y soja para las granjas en el cierre. Aunque esperábamos llegar a más familias, pudimos marcar una gran diferencia para 120 familias. Logramos distribuirles 8000 kilogramos de mezcla de maíz y soja, 4000 kilogramos de azúcar y 4000 kilogramos de frijoles secos.
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Thamer Abou Mansour, 28, did not want to be the kind of refugees arriving in Europe. When everything exploded in Syria, he studied economics at Damascus and quickly realized it would never be a peaceful revolution. He fled his country in late 2012, as many young people, for fear of being conscripted and forced to kill. This week has come to Mexico, along with Hazem Sharif, 24, hopes to resume the life that was buried four years ago by the hell of war.
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June 20 is International Refugee Day. Globally, the contemporary situation shows an acute crisis. Millions of people now have had to flee and cross the borders of their country of residence by a founded fear of persecution, that could jeopardize their life, freedom or integrity, following wars or massive violations of human rights, widespread violence, or similar situations. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) released a report stating that there has been an increase of at least 10% in the number of refugees or displaced worldwide last month including our continent. In Mexico we have had influxes of refugees in different stages of our recent history.
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Medicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) has noted, through its project serving the Transmigrant population in Mexico, that high levels of criminal and armed violence that are lived in different countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America push each year tens of thousands of people to leave their country to find a less insecure place where their lives and liberty are not threatened.
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A year ago, our church received a refugee family from Homs, Syria. We‘ve housed and supported them, and for a year, been their American family. They are Sunni Muslim, we, Presbyterian Christian.
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The following story is part of the Vocation of Peacemaking series where we asked members and friends of BPFNA ~ Bautistas por la Paz to write brief essays on their peacemaking work. Each story is a wonderful reminder that there are as many ways to live a life of peace as there are people, and that we can act for peace in real and important ways wherever we find ourselves. This essay comes from Eh Nay Thaw, a member of Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky and a student at Centre College who frequent attends at the BPFNA ~ Bautistas por la Paz Summer Conference.
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The following are letters from Archbishop Malkhaz Songulashvili, from the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, who is in Lebanon visiting refugees, ministering to the people, and bringing food and medical supplies.
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Eh Nay Thaw, familiar to many of us as a Peace Camp attendee, was recently invited to speak at Centre College in Danville, KY. His speech is inspiring and moving, and we are grateful to be able to share it. (Eh Nay hopes to attend Centre as a student and is currently working to find the funds to make that possible.)
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