As we begin to mark our 50th anniversary year at CAFOD, it is a time to reflect on what we have achieved, and how we have fulfilled our mission, both as an organisation and as individuals. In that spirit of reflection, we are asking all staff, volunteers, supporters and other friends of CAFOD to look back over their lives and recall the moment when they were first drawn into the fight against poverty and injustice.
Archbishop of San Salvador and human rights campaigner Oscar Romero (b.1917, murdered March 1980). During the 1980s, El Salvador was ravaged by civil war which in 1992 was ended with a United Nations-brokered peace agreement. c Equipo Maiz
For many of us, it was a news broadcast, a photo, a speech or an inspirational person. For some, it was a film, book or a story from the Bible. And for others, it was the personal experience of taking a trip abroad or seeing the kindness of others first hand. The events, experiences and people which have inspired us are as diverse as we are, but we can recognise in each others’ testimonies common bonds: the awakening of compassion for others; and the discovery of a world outside our own.
So please share with us your stories, and let us share them with the wider community of CAFOD supporters and partners throughout the world. Whatever age we are, whatever background we come from, and however different our stories are, we are united by our fire for justice. So let us share that fire, and celebrate our unity. To tell us what lit your flame, please email: flame@cafod.org.uk or leave your own story as a comment below.
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