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“Corporations, governments and financial institutions must stop initiating new oil and gas exploration and replace fossil fuels with energy sources that are friendly to the planet and those of us who inhabit it,” said Archbishop Jorge Eduardo Lozano of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina), the general secretary of CELAM (the Latin American Episcopal Council), as religious leaders of different faiths called for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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By Lisa Zengarini
On the occasion of today’s World Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking, celebrated this year on the theme “An Economy without Human Trafficking”, the Latin American and Caribbean Church Network CLAMOR on Migration, Refugees and Human Trafficking has launched a new continental campaign with the slogan “Life Is Not a Commodity on Sale”.
World Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Trafficking in Persons
On February 8 of each year Catholics all over the world are encouraged to host or attend prayer services to create greater awareness about this on-going phenomenon. The date has been designated because it marks the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, the Sudanese slave girl who became a saint in 2000 and a universal symbol of the Church’s commitment against slavery. The theme chosen for 2021 highlights that one of the main causes of human trafficking is the dominant economic model of our time, the limits of which are exacerbated by the CO