The CWS staff in Latin America and the Caribbean invites you to join with us in prayer, whether in the work/office setting or as individuals.

We give thanks …

… for the recent visit of sixteen U.S. church leaders including CWS executive director and CEO Rev. John L. McCullough with leaders of the Cuban Council of Churches concluded December 2. We pray for normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba and for the resolution of three humanitarian issues “which cause unjustifiable human misunderstanding and suffering”: the 53-year-old U.S. economic embargo of Cuba, the imprisonment in the U.S. of the “Cuban Five,” whose sentences in 1998 “have been deemed unjust by numerous human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the United Nations; and the two-year incarceration in Cuba of U.S. citizen Alan Gross.

… because a group of youth participants of the CWS-supported children program made significant advance towards making the Sport Center of Malvín Norte a reality for their community. After the presentation to the House of Representatives last June, they met with authorities of the Ministry of Home Affairs and other local authorities to ask for the allocation of resources for this project that, once completed, will benefit more than 5000 youth and children from vulnerable neighborhoods of Montevideo.


We pray…

…the food and nutritional security of 2,400 fishing families of the Weenhayek indigenous people who live on the banks of the Pilcomayo River in South America’s Chaco region as they cope with a severe food crisis derived from a lack of fish this season due to natural and human causes. We pray that government authorities in Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia can develop a sustainable management plan for the Pilcomayo river basin with participation of indigenous and other civil society groups.