June 2015 Newsletter page 2
It Takes a Village Sponsorship Translators A Picture of Fatima (top left on board) ~ translators Trinity High School, Garfield Hts., OH Fatima & friends See More about Fatima on page 1 St. Edward Thank you High Schools Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 translators: Trinity Barberton Beaumont Brunswick St. Edward St. Ignatius Archbishop Hoban Padua […]
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First Communions at COAR It couldn’t happen without the Village…. ….It Takes a Village Schools & Parishes Recognize COAR’s Importance Lenten Gifts from Schools and Parishes: St. Mary of the Falls School, Olmsted Falls, OH Incarnate Word Academy, Parma Hts., OH St. Francis of Assisi PSR & The Tuesday Club, Gates Mills, OH St. Michael […]
June 2015 Newsletter page 6
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson You are helping . . . COAR is clearly part of the solution to the crisis of children at the US border-–a problem that continues despite being off the front pages. As the Alliance for Prosperity plan proposes, fix the problems: build skills in the […]
COAR TEENS LOVE TO READ: Interview with Damaris
Damaris is an amazing young lady who loves to read. Her most common catch phrase is “you don’t have a book that I could read, do you?” Although she didn’t read as a young girl, she has developed this amazing passion which has made her into the fascinating, intelligent and reserved young lady that she […]
COAR TEENS LOVE TO READ: Interview with Gamaliel
The staff of COAR Peace Mission are absolutely thrilled to learn that many of our great COAR kids love to read. In today’s world of high resolution technology, it is so rare to find kids whose greatest wish is to sit under a tree on a lovely day – reading a novel. But, COAR has […]
The Sant’Egidio community in El Salvador joins in solidarity with COAR & peace
In the late fall of 2014, the Community Sant’Egidio in El Salvador reached out to COAR for the first time. They came to COAR to be in solidarity with our children and to share their message of Peace in a society that is being ripped apart by youth violence. There is probably no place on […]
New Era: Salvadoran Charities Begin to Donate to COAR
In the early 1980s, out of the violence and pain of the civil war, Father Ken opened his parish church to a few lonely, hungry and desperate chidren – war orphans. From that humble start, thanks to the immense charity from across the United States, COAR was born. Today, COAR quite literally is giving neglected, […]
Maybe Some Justice for the 4 Church Women?
At 1230pm on Wednesday, April 8th, 2015, former Salvadoran General Carlos Vides Casanova, walked onto the tarmac at the Comalapa International airport in El Salvador, a deported man – a man with an uncertain future. After 25 years in Florida, his deportation back to El Salvador was now a reality. Vides Casanova had been head […]
Surrounded by Gang Violence: Can Hope & Peace Be Nurtured?
March 26th, 2015, 1am: violence and bloodshed shatter the Salavadoran night in our neighboring town of San Jose Villanueva. This quiet, unimposing, hillside community just a few minutes from the Pacific coast to the south and COAR to the west, erupted in bloody violence as the Salvadoran National Civil Police entered the town that it […]