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A LIFE LESS ORDINARY - MAY 2013

... being the hands and voice of God to chose who have no voice.

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LOVE IN ACTION - FEB. 2013

Read on to find out how Paz y Esperanza can use a little to go a life-changinly long way.
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ONE STEP CLOSER TO JUSTICE. WILL YOU JOIN US? - NOV. 2012

A national court in Lima finally admitted that there is sufficient evidence linking the Peruvian military with the deaths of over 92 people, incluiding women and children, in the community of Putis in 1984.
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES - AUG. 2012

It's been a year since Paz y Esperanza UK was birthed! Thanks to your generous donations, we have sent £6000 to Paz y Esperanza's inspiring work in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru…

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A JUBILEE JOURNEY - JUN. 2012

While the UK celebrated the Diamond Jubilee with bunting and brass bands, Paz y Esperanza Peru is expectant for a Jubilee of a radically different nature. Graham Gordon, Paz y Esperanza UK, reports…

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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - APR. 2012

Love hurts
Blanca has distant gaze and broken speech: "I was in loved when I married, impressed by his way of helping others, his apparent love for suffering families, but one day I realized he was cheating on me. I confronted him. I told him that the Bible says: 'No one can serve two masters; therefore he cannot serve two women either.' But he told me he was a servant of the Lord. That the other woman made him happy and I did not".

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NEW YEAR: FRESH HOPE - JAN. 2012

Looking back
From 1980 to 2000 Peru was plagued by internal armed conflict between the Shining Path guerilla movement (seeking to impose their Maoist ideology), and government troops.
Those who suffered the most were the Quechua speaking rural farming communities. Targeted one day by guerrillas demanding food, clothes and shelter, and the next by the army accusing them of being communist sympathizers, most fled to the highest altitudes to escape the frequent violence, destruction and murderous attacks.

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REFUSING TO STAY SILENT - NOV. 2011

Dr. José M. Vinces is a lawyer, cofounder and executive director of Paz y Esperanza Ecuador. For over twenty years his work has involved defending the rights of women and children victimised by sexual and domestic violence. Part of this work involves educating and equipping evangelical pastors and lay leaders, so that they may be salt and light in the fight against sexual and domestic violence, both in and outside the church.

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MARIA´S STORY OF HOPE - SEPT. 2011

María Quispe’s frame looked small and fragile. Marks and bruises covered her body, and when she walked her steps were difficult. Now, she sat quietly, ashamed, not wanting to talk, her eyes swollen from crying, frightened by my gaze.
Many blows had made her walking difficult. It was a door, and fragments of her own walls in the little room which she called home, which had left her body marked and bruised. They had fallen on her when her husband Germán had violently thrown her against them.

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