OSMTH Charitable Donations
Simon LeFevre, Almoner General
Over the last few years, OSMTH has been fortunate to be able to build up the Order’s international reserve funds. The OSMTH Grand Magistral Council agreed, on 20 February 2021, to continue the limited international program of charitable donations, totalling 10,000 Euros (approximately 11,800 US Dollars), in 2021.
The OSMTH International Charitable Donations Program is designed to further the following Objects set out in OSMTH’s International Statutes, which are:
- to encourage and promote Christian humanitarian work and charity generally, but especially in support of people in the Middle East; and
- to encourage all that makes for the spiritual and moral strengthening of mankind in accordance with the first great principle of the Order embodied in the motto: "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory";
in ways which are consistent with current key International Policy & Advocacy Positions of OSMTH, which are:
- to support "Christians at Risk" in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East, by aiding the Christian diaspora and other threatened minority faith groups which find themselves in hostile environments, particularly by providing education and employment opportunities which allow them to remain in their ancestral homelands;
- to support religious and educational institutions, which seek to sustain a diverse Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East;
- to promote the preservation and restoration of historic buildings, particularly those associated with sites of Christian pilgrimage; and
- to advocate, through United Nations' and other civil society forums, for human rights and with an emphasis on peacebuilding and on clean water at an affordable price for all.
Take a tour of the five 2021 recipient organisations starting first with The Halo Trust.
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