Results for human trafficking
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Good Friday Meditation: Body. Broken. Exploited.
Originally Posted: 04/05/2012 - 11:15pm | Type: Blog -
Today, I reflect on this body of Christ. It beckons me and I’m reminded once again that the violence and death that happened on that dark day lingers still. Here I am meditating on th ...
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Restoring Dignity
Originally Posted: 03/16/2012 - 2:47pm | Type: Blog -
A nonprofit in New York City founded by a young social worker leverages a network of resources to provide aftercare and safe housing for women who are victims of sex trafficking. “To ...
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40 Ideas for Keeping Lent Holy
Originally Posted: 02/27/2012 - 9:30am | Type: Blog -
40 Ideas for Keeping a Holy Lent from House for All Sinners and Saints church in Colorado, that God's Politics contributor Nadia Bolz-Weber serves. 40 Ideas for Keeping a Holy L ...
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Shutting Down "Satan’s Marketplace"
Originally Posted: 01/27/2012 - 2:33pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Stewart Burns In “’Humankind’s Most Savage Cruelty’”, I describe how it will take every weapon in the arsenal of nonviolence to end the g ...
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BackPage and "Baby Face": Stop Human Trafficking
Originally Posted: 01/26/2012 - 1:36pm | Type: Blog -
In his column for the New York Times, Nicolas Kristof tells the story of a 13-year-old girl in Brooklyn he calls “Baby Face." She had been sent into an apartment building by a pimp to meet a customer. ...
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The Selling of America's Children
Originally Posted: 01/13/2012 - 5:09pm | Type: Blog -
The church is realizing the need to deal with Human trafficking Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far has the L ...
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Sojourners Observes Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Originally Posted: 01/11/2012 - 5:23pm | Type: Blog -
Sojourners has long been committed to the fight to end this abhorrent evil, and the current issue of Sojourners Magazine seeks to engage the topic head-on. Click through to explore our coverage and involvement i ...
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Passion 2012 Calls Us to Rise Up Against Modern-Day Slavery
Originally Posted: 01/12/2012 - 11:26am | Type: Blog -
A pervasive criticism of modern Christians, both from outsiders as well as concerned Christians, is that people of faith are not taking seriously Jesus’ call for us to serve “the least of these.” Thankfully, we ...
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Light in the darkness – an interview with Daniel Walker, author of "God in a Brothel"
Originally Posted: 12/07/2011 - 1:50pm | Type: Blog -
Author Daniel Walker sits down with Sojourners' James Colten to talk about his new book, "God in a Brothel," the scourge of child slavery and the sex industry worldwide, and the church's res ...
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Lawyers' Surreal World and the Fight Against Selling Children
Originally Posted: 10/27/2011 - 9:24am | Type: Blog -
When three dozen prominent interfaith clergy (including Jim Wallis) signed an ad in the New York Times saying that the best way to stop the sex trafficking of children on Backpage was to shut down tha ...