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What?
Prayer and fasting every Friday at lunchtime. This specific
time is to help us be intentional about our prayers, corporate
in our attack, unified in our approach. Through fasting we want
to both identify with the victims of human trafficking in the
world and align ourselves with God's heart in prayer for the
abolishing of it.
How?
This is easy. Join our movement by making a verbal/or email
commitment to join us. You can do this alone or get together
with some friends! Send us your commitment to "prayer @ globalgirlnetwork.com"
and we'll send you a bi-weekly email to help give you direction
as you pray. A suggested prayer guide is given below.
Where?
Weekly, this could be anywhere and everywhere—church, park,
home, coffee shop—anywhere you'd like to meet with those who
are already praying or where you like to pray yourself.
Also, every six weeks we'd like to offer a specific location
around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland where we can have a
corporate gathering of prayer focused on human-trafficking. If
your church would like to host one, please email
Danielle at sixonefour@lightspeed.ca for details.
When?
Every Friday, though you could pick a different day of the
week.
Prayer Guide for May 16 & 23, 2008:
Scripture:
“But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are
snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They
are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one
says ‘Restore!’”
–Isaiah 42:22
Reflection:
Nigeria is bent on winning the war against human trafficking
and has taken up the challenge squarely. “A situation where
children, tomorrow's future and women are abused, sold into
slavery in this century is unacceptable and is being fought
with all the arsenals at our disposal.”
—Mrs. Carol Ndaguba, Executive Secretary of NAPTIP
(Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons) –allafrica.com
Update and Prayer:
ð This week, let’s pray for the following 11 countries
that have been highlighted as major source countries for
human trafficking:
• Belarus
• the Republic of Moldova
• the Russian Federation and Ukraine
• Albania
• Bulgaria
• Lithuania
• Romania
• China
• Thailand
• Nigeria (UNODC,
2006)
ð We pray for economic restoration, the elimination of
poverty and for just governments to be in place in these
countries.
ð Pray for a two-day seminar on trafficking in human
beings of African origin for the purposes of sexual
exploitation that is currently held by the French interior
ministry in Paris. They are hoping to strengthen cooperation
between European countries and their African counterparts.
ð Some 60,000 young African women are victims of sexual
exploitation in Western European countries such as Germany,
Belgium, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Britain and France.
“Currently, an estimated 30 percent of prostitutes across
France are originally from the African continent compared to
just below 10 percent in 2000, (OCRTEH) said in a report
recently, stressing that the problem could get out of hand
if not addressed with the urgency it deserved.”
Source: www.chinaview.net
ð Pray for the Central Office for the Suppression of
Trafficking in Human Beings (OCRTEH), the government-run
agency that has helped dismantle and disrupt over 25 African
prostitution networks in three years in France alone,
according to official figures.
ð If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the “Prayer
Guide ... for the Victims of Sex Trafficking” created by the
Salvation Army US and the Salvation Army Ethics Centre.
Downloads are available here:
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn.nsf/vw-sublinks/D94282A087B35EB780257194006FCE29?openDocument
Criminals find more
money in prostitution than drugs, trial told
Excerpted from: Montreal Gazette, Published on Tuesday,
November 07, 2006
“Luring young women into
prostitution has become so lucrative in Montreal, many
organized criminals choose that over dealing drugs, a Montreal
police detective specializing in sexual exploitation testified
Tuesday. As a backdrop to sentencing arguments for Alain
Jean-Pierre, 31, a metro police officer convicted of living off
the avails of prostitution, Det.-Sgt. Dominic Monchamp painted
a picture of a burgeoning business in escort agencies, massage
parlours, strip clubs and pornographic movies. He said
his specialized squad, set up in 2002 with 15 full-time
investigators, has since been reduced to eight members for the
entire province despite the rise of exploitation of
increasingly younger girls.”
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