In May, the 13 churches in the Mexico City area that are part of the Evangelical Anabaptist Mennonite Church Conference (CIEAMM) issued a letter expressing their support of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a civil society movement that asks for an end to the violence in Mexico.
The letter expresses the church’s solidarity with the pain that has moved thousands of Mexicans to protest the “war” in which more than 50,000 people have been killed and 10,000 disappeared in the past six years. The churches support the call of the Peace Movement for a new strategy to combat drug trafficking and crime that works against corruption and impunity and that addresses the social issues at the root of the conflict.
The letter states that this support arises from a historic peace church perspective that it is the will of God that Shalom reigns over the earth. This Shalom is not merely the absence of conflict, but the result of right human and social relationships governed by love, justice, respect for life, integrity and human diversity, solidarity and tolerance.