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Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery That Can Happen Just Around the Corner, Say Advocates for Victims – The Tablet
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Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery That Can Happen Just Around the Corner, Say Advocates for Victims – The Tablet

Portuguese maritime police investigate one of two sites where hundreds of human trafficking victims, mostly migrants from Southeast Asia, were found near Lisbon June 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Miguel Pereira, Reuters) LONDON (OSV News) — Human trafficking doesn’t happen only in far away places where human rights are neglected. It happens around the corner. It’s…

Jesuit Priest Expelled After 30 Years Of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse
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Jesuit Priest Expelled After 30 Years Of Sexual, Spiritual Abuse

Topline Accusations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of adult women over a 30-year period have led to the expulsion of prominent Slovenian Jesuit priest Marko Ivan Rupnik, accused of abusing multiple women after he’d previously been excommunicated, but then welcomed back into the Roman Catholic church. Key Facts The Society of Jesus, an order…

“A scandalous industry”: Catholic Bishop on Human Trafficking in Southern Africa
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“A scandalous industry”: Catholic Bishop on Human Trafficking in Southern Africa

Factors behind human trafficking in the countries of IMBISA, he said, “are the issues we need to talk about as the church.” “All the causes point at poverty,” the Ugandan-born Catholic Bishop further said, adding that the victims of human trafficking are subjected to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual torture, thus the need for the…

Church takes up fight vs human trafficking – Inquirer.net
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Church takes up fight vs human trafficking – Inquirer.net

MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Church in the country has added its voice to the growing concern over human trafficking cases, as it launched a campaign against this vicious crime and marked the first Sunday of February as a National Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking. Today, therefore, marks the first observance of…

Sister Kanlaya aiming for a Zero Waste, Zero Human Trafficking world – Vatican News
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Sister Kanlaya aiming for a Zero Waste, Zero Human Trafficking world – Vatican News

In the heart of Bangkok, a woman religious inspired by a Buddhist monk is transforming a school into a 0 Waste facility, and at the same time offers jobs to refugees at risk of human trafficking. By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp After 50 years in religious life, Sister Agnes Kanlaya Trisopa launched herself into…

Joint efforts needed in fight against human trafficking: Women and girls most vulnerable
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Joint efforts needed in fight against human trafficking: Women and girls most vulnerable

Monsignor Janusz Urbanczyk, the Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), encourages common efforts in the fight against human trafficking, highlighting that women and girls are most vulnerable, particularly in situations of conflict and (Editor’s note: apologies; this sentence was incomplete in the original article.) Oct 14, 2022…

Holy See: Joint efforts needed in fight against human trafficking – Vatican News
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Holy See: Joint efforts needed in fight against human trafficking – Vatican News

By Benedict Mayaki, SJ Speaking on Thursday during a plenary session of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Monsignor Janusz Urbańczyk highlighted the Holy See’s concern about the “heinous crime” of trafficking in persons, particularly in situations of conflict and humanitarian crises. Recalling Pope Francis’ words, he said that trafficking “represents an unjustifiable…

Pope urges Italians to have more children, welcome migrants – Star Tribune
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Pope urges Italians to have more children, welcome migrants – Star Tribune

MATERA, Italy — Pope Francis traveled to southern Italy on Sunday to close out an Italian church congress that coincided with Italy’s national election, and delivered a message that hit on key domestic campaign issues including immigration. Neither Francis nor his hosts referred to the vote during the open-air Mass, though Italy’s bishops conference had…

Church and state must protect children from abuse – UCA News
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Church and state must protect children from abuse – UCA News

Inaction brings shame to the Church as well as a lifetime of suffering for the victims Church and state are frequently slow and silent about the abuse of children and action is frequently lacking in bringing the abusers to justice. Denials, cover-ups, intimidation of victims and witnesses, and pay-offs to parents and victims are the…

With the support of the Pope, they promote the training of transport workers to fight against slavery through campaigns that make complaint channels visible
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With the support of the Pope, they promote the training of transport workers to fight against slavery through campaigns that make complaint channels visible

  Thursday, August 11, 2022 | 2:42 p.m. Pope Francis expressed his support for the efforts to increase prevention, detection and fight campaigns against human trafficking and smuggling, within the framework of the second international meeting of Transport Unions in the Vatican, in which Gustavo Vera, director of the Executive Committee for the Fight against…