Theology Meets Culture!
Pinkard Scholars: Right Here… Right Now…
…learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow… Isaiah 1: 17 (NRSV)
Click here to watch the USCCB’s informative video on the problem of human trafficking.
Stop human slavery!
FACTS:
- 21 MILLION PERSONS ARE TRAFFICKED WORLD WIDE
- 5.5 MILLION ARE CHILDREN
- 161 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING, THE UNITED STATES
- $32 BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: WORLD-WIDE
- 1 PERSON IS CONVICTED FOR EVERY 800 CASES (on average)
Student Projects: Pinkard Scholars Respond
Click here to view student projects.
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Human Trafficking Responses and Resources:
Catholic
www.crs.org/slavery-human-trafficking
Presbyterian
www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/human-trafficking
www.pcusa.org/resource/human-trafficking
Baptist
www.namb.net/human_trafficking
Lutheran
www.elca.org/our-work/publicly-engaged/justice-for-women/social-issues
www.lirs.org/act/campaigns/endhumantrafficking
Episcopal
www.episcopalchurch.org/page/human-trafficking
The Johns Hopkins Protection Project