COAR Kids Love Visitors: Even If No One Speaks Spanish
COAR kids love to meet with visitors from the US and especially with their sponsors. COAR has been very lucky to have hosted delegations from colleges, high schools and parishes from around the country. Since few US visitors are bilingual, our official COAR delegations usually stay in-country for about 1 week. During the week, US […]
COAR Students Celebrate the Life and Martyrdom of Oscar Romero
On May 22nd, 2015, COAR’s 900+ students celebrated the life and sacrifice of Oscar Romero. The following day, in San Salvador, 250,000 stood in the baking hot sun – happily – awaiting the message from Pope Francis that Oscar Romero was finally Beato Romero! Back at COAR, there was a lovely Holy Mass. Friday was […]
Salvadoran Father in US Counsels Kids to Seek Legal Route to US: Border Too Dangerous
With an election year close at hand, it is helpful to remind ourselves of the people behind the stories. We will briefly describe the case of legal immigrant Carlos Leveron and how his story fits into the national narrative on Immigration. But, to begin, some facts to consider: In the past 5 years, there has […]
Oscar Romero “Smiles Down upon El Salvador” during his Beatification
May 23rd, 2015, over 250,000 Salvadorans flooded the streets surrounding the Divino Salvador del Mundo monument in the capital city to celebrate the beatification of slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. The Archdiocese had constructed a temporary stage in front of the monument. Throngs of people lined the streets emanating outward like roots of hope from […]
Sports and Recreation at COAR
COAR, like most schools today, realizes the importance of promoting healthy physical exercise, as well as, traditional academia. What have great minds said about exercise? President JFK said “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity”. President Thomas […]
June 2015 Newsletter page 1
Paradise Down donates another free year of Down Syndrome services to Support COAR child Several years ago, COAR welcomed our first child with Down Syndrome. She is a wonderful girl with a bright and lively spirit who only wants to please. Thanks to the efforts of our Salvadoran director, a local non-profit organization called “Paradise […]
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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 […]
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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 […]