Welcome to the new COAR Peace Mission website!
For over 45 years, COAR Peace Mission has kept its doors open, even through civil war, because people like you chose to stand in solidarity with the community of St. Romero.
Whatever comes next, your support means COAR will be there with open doors and open arms.
Prefer to donate by check? Please make your check payable to COAR Peace Mission and send it directly to our Ohio office:
28700 Euclid Ave
Wickliffe, Ohio 44092-2585
What your support makes possible
- Safe housing and round-the-clock care for Children’s Village residents
- School tuition scholarships for children who couldn’t otherwise attend
- Fresh, nutritious meals for our residents
- Psychological, medical, and dental care
- Living wages for dedicated in-country staff
- Upkeep and improvement of COAR facilities
When we say “for the poor,”
we do not take sides with one social class, please note.What we do, according to Puebla,
is invite all social classes,
rich and poor without distinction,
saying to everyone:Let us take seriously the cause of the poor
as though it were our own –
indeed, as what it really is, the cause of Jesus Christ,
who on the final judgment day will call to salvation
those who treated the poor with faith in him:“Whatever you did to one of these poor ones –
the neglected, blind, lame, deaf, mute –
you did to me.”
– Óscar Romero, The Violence of Love, p. 162, Sept. 9, 1979.