Sunday, June 01, 2025

Are You Willing To Help?


Aarón Méndez Ruiz

Hi,

The faces you see in this email are currently missing. Their whereabouts are unknown. Their families don’t know if they are alive or dead.

They’re the faces of people who have been forcibly disappeared because of their beliefs, or for speaking up for the rights of others.

When someone is ‘disappeared’, they have often been taken by their government or an illegal armed group. They have not been charged with a crime or given access to due legal processes. Sometimes the truth may never be revealed. This is why we must keep documenting evidence, raising their cases and calling for answers.

We won’t let their faces or their stories be forgotten. Thank you for remembering them, and others who are suffering for their beliefs.

Your gift will go twice as far because a generous supporter will match your donation pound for pound up to £10,000.

Pastor Aarón Méndez Ruiz (pictured centre) has been missing for nearly six years.

The pastor worked on the border of Mexico and the United States, running a migrant shelter.

It’s a particularly dangerous area where organised criminal groups operate, often moving things like drugs or arms across the border.

Pastor Aarón had already blocked an attempted abduction of Cuban asylum seekers from his shelter. But on 3 August 2019, the criminals returned – this time taking Pastor Aarón and his colleague, Alfredo Castillo de Luna.

The two men have not been seen since, and there’s never been any real investigation into who is responsible.

Will you help those who have been disappeared because of their beliefs, like Pastor Aarón, and others who are being targeted for their faith around the world?

Your gifts enable us to continue raising the cases of those who have been forcibly disappeared in places such as the United Nations, European Parliament and UK Parliament. Decision-makers can use this information to challenge those in authority in the countries where people have been disappeared.

Grace and peace,

Scot Bower
CEO

PS. Please make a gift, if you can. Don’t forget – your gift will be doubled by a generous supporter who has pledged up to £10,000.

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