Human Trafficking

man holding sign with the words "Slavery Still Exists"

Let My Children Go

Patricia Breen McNeil February 15, 2025

When Moses went before the Pharaoh, he proclaimed the words God had spoken to him, “Let my people go!” The heartbeat of God was for the freedom and protection of his children.

Love and Light

Christopher Heffron January 25, 2024

This magazine is our humble attempt to bring love and light into an often dark world.

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Hope in the Fight against Human Trafficking

Mark Pattison January 25, 2024

Millions of people worldwide experience human trafficking. Members of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking, an organization founded by Catholic sisters, discuss their ongoing work and advocacy for survivors.

Franciscan Peacemakers: On the Front Lines of Human Trafficking

Stephen Copeland May 25, 2022

The Franciscan Peacemakers have been helping women struggling with prostitution and poverty for over 25 years. Now some of the women they’ve helped are giving back.

The Remarkable Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe

María Ruiz Scaperlanda January 25, 2019

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s been featured in Time magazine and on CNN for her humanitarian work, but her faith, not fame, is what fuels her efforts to rescue abducted girls in South Sudan and Uganda.

St. Josephine Bakhita is represented in this statue by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz in this photo released by the Holy See Press Office Feb. 3, 2022. St. Bakhita, who was sold into slavery as a child, is the patron saint of the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, which is marked on her Feb. 8 feast day. (CNS photo/courtesy Holy See Press Office)

St. Josephine Bakhita—A Model of Faith

Christopher Heffron January 22, 2018

Her kidnappers gave her the name Bakhita, meaning "fortunate. " Her life in captivity wasn't quite so. Born in Darfur in 1869, Josephine Bakhita was taken by Arab slave traders when she was 9.