22 September 2021
“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]
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[1] Christians Should Be ‘Outraged’ That Children Are Being ‘Trafficked in Our Own Backyard’
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[1] Christians Should Be ‘Outraged’ That Children Are Being ‘Trafficked in Our Own Backyard’
By Jeannie Ortega Law, Christian Post Reporter
FLORIDA — Human Trafficking is happening in our own backyard, and that knowledge should make anyone with a conscience “outraged,” said Kevin Malone, the president and co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, whose organization runs the nation’s sole accredited safe house for trafficked boys.
“People need to be outraged that this is happening to our boys and girls all over the country — that it is our own boys and girls,” Malone, a former general manager of the LA Dodgers turned activist, told The Christian Post during a candid interview about the horrors of child trafficking. “It’s happening internationally, too, but it’s in our own backyards. It’s our own kids. They are one or two or three degrees of separation away from being somehow connected to this.”
According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the definition of human trafficking is any situation in which someone experiences “force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control.”
Micah Washinski, the chief operating officer for the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, told CP: “We often think of the force, we think of the kidnapping, we think of the movie ‘Taken’ where the girl is kidnapped. I think most of America thinks human trafficking is happening that way. But that is not primarily where we see our kids being trafficked. It’s mostly through the use of fraud or coercion that comes into play, oftentimes with people that are known to them. So families are victimizing their own children, their own grandchildren through coercion.”
“Even adults [who are trafficked] don’t think that they’re useful in any other regard because they’ve been programmed to be used for their bodies as long as they can remember,” she added. “So now they’re at a place where they’re just resigned to it. They become objectified. So they’re an object, they’re not made in the image of God, they’re viewed as just objects to be used for whatever pleasures or reasons that these manipulators are using.”
As this CP reporter was being driven to the safe house in a remote location to meet some of the boys in the organization’s care, a team member of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking shared several stories of the horrors the boys experienced as children and young teens. Sadly, most of the boys have been raped multiple times before the age of fifteen. One boy was abused so badly he was hospitalized for weeks before being transferred to the safe house.
According to the International Labour Organization, Human trafficking is a US$150 billion a year industry worldwide, and Washinski said the U.S. is leading the demand.
Multiple reports have shown that hundreds of thousands of Americans younger than 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade every year. Statistics shared by the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking show that up to 36% of sex-trafficked children in the U.S. are males, with some studies showing that it’s as much as fifty percent.
“The U.S. is the number one consumer of trafficking victims worldwide,” Washinski said. “So we’re the buyers. We’re the ones that are buying goods and services that are being produced by trafficking victims, by labor trafficking victims, and we’re also buying sex at a rapid rate.”
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Teresa Tomeo Communications
Sept. 16, 2021
MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 16, 2021 /Christian Newswire/ — International speaker and author Kevin Wells is on a mission to bring awareness of the plight of children facing a future of poverty, human trafficking, and dehumanization across the world. He resigned from his job as a sports writer to now bring light to how people of all faiths can help children worldwide. “What we are now witnessing in Afghanistan is tragic and hopefully opening our eyes to how children, including young girls and women are suffering. The question is ‘How can the average American help?'”
Wells, inspired by Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, didn’t want to sit by the sidelines. He traveled and spent a month in Chalco, Mexico with The Sisters of Mary, a religious community founded by Fr. Aloysius Schwartz in 1964. The Sisters of Mary work round-the-clock to nourish, house, catechize and care for more than 20,000 teenagers at 17 different worldwide Boystown and Girlstown communities through World Villages, an organization also founded by “Fr. Al.”
Fr. Al, best known for his heroic virtue and service to the poor was declared venerable in 2015 by Pope Francis, the first of three steps toward being declared a saint in the Catholic Church.
“World Villages are the answer to helping children globally,” said Wells. “They are given the opportunity to have a bright future and be productive members of society.”
Wells’ relationship with World Villages developed after they asked Wells to pen the biography of their founder, Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, published by Ignatius Press. It describes “outside of the box” methods used by Fr. Al to rescue children and convert them to Christ and become evangelizers of the gospel.
Wells continued, “We need to replicate these efforts in more countries, but first we need to make people aware of how children are being harmed and how we can help. We can’t make this someone else’s problem. Children are our future.”
World Villages for Children works through 18 different schools in 6 countries: The Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, and Tanzania. They are feeding the children physically, spiritually, and provide healing opportunities for those hurting from many issues including past sexual abuse. Children are being healed, mind, body and spirit.
Kevin Wells is available to share practical ideas and bring light to ways to help children around the globe. He travels speaking to various groups and is available for interviews.
SOURCE Teresa Tomeo Communications
CONTACT: Christy George, 301-704-9041, cgeorge@worldvillages.org
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