prostitution

Mother tells how daughter became victim of sex trafficking, lost her life
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Feb 10, 2019
Children are very vulnerable to being trafficked anywhere in the world.
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Sex trafficking is ‘rooted in structure of society,’ says speaker
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- May 17, 2018
The fight against human trafficking and sexual exploitation may need its own #MeToo moment, according to a leading trafficking opponent.
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In new film, girls rescued from prostitution are ‘heroes of the story’
- Global Church
- Apr 14, 2018
A new film documents the efforts of one religious order to help underage girls working as prostitutes, “the most vulnerable among the vulnerable,” in the African nation of Sierra Leone.
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Meet the priest who serves an unlikely community in Peru’s Amazon
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- Jan 20, 2018
Father Pablo Zabala is a 70-year old Spanish priest, who serves in a remote part of the world: the Peruvian Amazon.
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Human Trafficking: Sister tells of immersion in life of night, streets
- Global Church
- Nov 29, 2017
When Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti returned to Italy in the early 90s after her work as a missionary in Africa, she saw the same faces of the young women she had met now forced into prostitution by human traffickers. Since then she has made it her life’s goal to put an and to this modern form of slavery and fight for the dignity of women.
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Shelter to offer trafficking victims a safe haven, life and job skills
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- May 14, 2017
It is significant that Pope Francis has taken a special interest in a shelter in Baton Rouge for victims of human trafficking as the state seems to be used by many traffickers. According to recent statistics, the I-10 corridor from Texas to Florida has been identified as the busiest trafficking corridor in the United States. During the Super Bowl, which was played in February, Houston police made 214 arrests related to trafficking.
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