Modern-day Slavery (Awareness Project Online)
Religious groups team up to fight sex trafficking - http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/religious-groups-team-up-to-fight-sex-trafficking/2012/09/26/fa2d2852-0817-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html?socialreader_check=0&denied=1
Law enforcement
is increasingly teaming up with faith groups to combat sex trafficking around
the country. Some are calling the faith-based push against human trafficking
the newest “Christian abolitionist movement.”
The issue drew
the attention of President Obama at former President Bill Clinton’s Clinton
Global Initiative on Tuesday (Sept. 25), where Obama said the estimated 20
million victims of human trafficking would become a major focus of his Office
of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
“Like that Good
Samaritan on the road to Jericho, we can’t just pass by, indifferent,” Obama
said. “We’ve got to be moved by compassion. We’ve got to bind up the wounds.”
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