Inter Religious Task Force on Central America

On December 2, 1980—four US women (including Cleveland’s Jean Donovan and Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel) paid with their lives for deciding to stay in solidarity with oppressed and marginalized peoples, despite political turmoil in El Salvador.

Our organization was founded to carry forward their legacy. Since 1981, we have been promoting peace and justice in Central America by engaging Ohioans in education and action. 

• To follow our various faith teachings, commitments, and convictions which call us to promote justice and peace with the people of Central America.
• To advocate for human rights, self-determination, economic justice and peace based on nonviolent systemic changes, instead of militarized approaches in the region and in U.S. policy.
• To build bridges of solidarity, especially between faith communities, with the most consistently martyred and oppressed peoples in our hemisphere.