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Setting Free the Slaves: Systemic Change One Child at a time

by John Freund, CM | Oct 28, 2007 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change

There is little awareness in the developed world of the vast network of child slaves, some 200,000 in Thailand alone. ‘To see girls enslaved in brothels, it hurts,’ says Sompop Jantraka. ‘If you can protect one child, you protect future...

100 million child brides: stolen lives

by annaread | Oct 7, 2007 | Justice and Peace

In the next ten years, an estimated 100 million girls will be married before their 18th birthday. Here’s a preview of “Child Brides: Stolen Lives”, a special that will run on the American network PBS on October 12.

Vatican Calls Prostitution a Form of Slavery

by John Freund, CM | Jun 20, 2007 | Church, Justice and Peace

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 20, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers reiterated the Church’s condemnation of sexual exploitation and prostitution as a form of modern slavery. Given Vincent’s concerns about slavery this should be of...

Sr. Angela DC and Scotland Yard

by John Freund, CM | Apr 30, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family

18 April 2007 – Recently a rather curious news item appeared in the “La Stampa”, (a Turin newspaper): Some civil servants from Scotland Yard Police Force, London came to Turin to interview Sr Angela Pozzoli, a Daughter of the Charity, who for the past ten...

Trafficking in Women – Union of International Superiors General

by John Freund, CM | Apr 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses

The General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission has passed on notice of a Traffiking In Women Information and Workshop Kit which is being recommended by the Union of International Superiors General based in Rome “Trafficking” has been defined by the...
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