Author: CEDAR Fund

The First World War, the Second World War, Syria has been in a state of war for many years… The fights between humankind have never stopped. Talking about peace and reconciliation is like a fairy tale. However, the Lord’s requirement is: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Luke 10:27). In this turbulent era, we must do our best to bring peace to the community. CEDAR promotes ‘Peace and Reconciliation projects, hoping that people of different ethnicities and religions can live peacefully in the same world. ‘love your enemies and pray for those who persecute

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” (Genesis 1:31 – 2:1) The public’s concept of poverty alleviation is to help the poor get over difficulties and improve their living conditions. From the perspective of Christianity, the Lord value not only human. This is because He see everything He created is good and everything in the world is His masterpiece. In this case, except human, the things we care is the place, animals and plants created by Him. Due to the gred of human, they abuse the resources on earth, the

  “It takes ten years nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man”, nurturing a child requires a lot of resources and responsibilities. Children not only grow up at home, but also at schools, churches, communities and etc., these places affect a lot on whether children can grow up healthily. In many poor countries, some children do not have parents, teachers, schoolmates and pastors in church. They are regarded as the lowest slave in the society and even as a “goods”. CEDAR meet children in different countries, some are people with AIDs, some are the victims of child marriage, some are refugees, some are children grown up under war. CEDAR’s work included improving children’s families’

‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’ (John 3:16) Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross and sacrificed for us, reflecting the Lord’s love for us and the importance he attaches to us. However, humans hate each other and even regard lower social status and poor people as goods, using various bullying methods such as coercion, abduction and deception to trade and sell people on the global market. Today, human trafficking and forced labour have become major global issues, growing at an alarming rate. According to the 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons by the United Nations Office