Human Trafficking

Anti-Trafficking Committee of the Commission for Justice:

Mary Rita Boyle, SSJ                             Pat Madden, SSJ

Mary Elizabeth Farrell, SSJ                     Eileen Marnien, SSJ

Jude Gallen, SSJ                                   Kathy McShane, SSJ

Agnes Gunn, SSJ                                  Meaghan Patterson, SSJ

Mary Beth Hamm, SSJ                           Dot Urban, SSJ

Linda Klaiss, SSJ                                   Maureen Patricia Walsh, SSJ

 

The vision of our founders, the first six women and Jean Pierre Medaille, SJ, in the mid 17th century is still our vision today: a vision founded to meet the miseries or sufferings of the time. Today, that vision enables us to hear the cries of those trapped in the darkness of global trafficking.

At the heart of Catholic social teaching is the dignity of the human person. Prayer, awareness, and action will help overcome this evil which is a blatant violation of basic human dignity.

WHAT IS IT...It is Slavery!

Many of us have read about or have images of African slaves being brought to the western world in the early history of our country. We think of it as something out of the past, it couldn't happen today…but, it does! Human trafficking is slavery and it is happening TODAY!

Women, children, and men are recruited, abducted, transported and sold through fraud and deception. They are then forced into slave conditions for commercial sex and forced labor.

Millions of human beings are paid little or no money, locked away, and controlled by violence, intimidation, and fear. They are forced to labor in sweatshops, places of prostitution, restaurants, hotels, fields, and homes as domestics.

O Loving God: 
We pray for the eradication of the trafficking of women, children, and me;

We pray for the victims of trafficking who have been abused and forced to live in constant fear, that they may be freed;

We pray for those who are buying, selling, and holding other human beings enslaved, that they
may have a change of heart.

Compassionate God, hear our prayer and the prayers of the victims of human trafficking. Amen.

 

HELPFUL WEBSITES

Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking

Mt. St. Joseph Academy Senior Project on Human Trafficking

http://www.msjacad.org/pages/challenge/index.html

Polaris Project:  

http://www.polarisproject.org/polarisproject

Sisters of the Divine Savior: 

http://www.sdssisters.org/slavery

Stop Trafficking Newsletter: 

http://homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

http://www.nccbuscc.org/mrs/traffickingweb.shtml

 

RESOURCES

 

In order to better educate ourselves and others and to prepare for appropriate action, the Human Trafficking Committee of the SSJ Commission for Justice is providing the materials listed below:

Human Trafficking Brochure (English) – Awareness-raising brochure can be distributed in churches, etc.

Folleto que trafica humano (Espanol) -- el conocimiento que levanta el folleto se puede distribuir en iglesias, el etc.

Human Trafficking Cards Set of 8 -- Stories of trafficked persons and websites for further exploration
        

Human Trafficking Parish Resource Packet - A variety of materials that can be used in a parish

Parish Bulletin Announcement   Bulletin Insert    (Fall)

Parish Bulletin Announcement   Bulletin Insert    (Winter)

Parish Bulletin Announcement   Bulletin Insert    (Spring)

 

Overview of Trafficking Awareness Efforts - Brochure explains the efforts of the Sisters of Saint Joseph in raising awareness of human trafficking.  Includes list of videos/DVDs.

     

      

                          

 

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