Online ‘marathon’ planned for day of prayer against trafficking
This is a poster for the global online International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking planned for Feb. 8, 2021, World Day of Prayer and Reflection against Trafficking. (CNS photo/courtesy preghieracontrotratta.org)
By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service • Posted February 5, 2021
ROME (CNS) Organizers of the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking are hosting a cross-continental “prayer marathon” Feb. 8 to pray for an economy free of exploited, trafficked persons.
Because of the global pandemic, the event will be online only; it will include a video message from Pope Francis which will be broadcast during the livestreamed event on YouTube.
Caritas: Access to vaccine not as equitable as it should be
A health care worker administers a dose of the Sinovac s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine to a person at a vaccination center in Santiago, Chile, Feb. 3, 2021. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)
By Junno Arocho Esteves • Catholic News Service • Posted February 5, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Caritas Internationalis called on world leaders to set aside national and political agendas that seek returns on their investments in the COVID-19 vaccine and instead focus on its equitable distribution, especially in poor countries.
In a statement released Feb. 5, the umbrella organization of official national Catholic charities around the world said that while the availability of the vaccine has brought much hope, it has also revealed “a wider gap in inequality.”
An image of Sudanese St. Josephine Margaret Bakhita, a Canossian Daughter of Charity, is carried in procession during a prayer service in 2017. (CNS/Reuters/Max Rossi)
Prayer marathons, informational seminars, survivor panels, and an international Twitterstorm are just some of the many activities taking place Feb. 8 for the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking.
The day coincides with the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Sudan, eventually gaining her freedom and becoming a Canossian Daughter of Charity. She is the patron saint of human trafficking survivors.
With women religious deeply engaged in anti-trafficking ministries all over the world largely through networks united under the international Talitha Kum umbrella network several organizations and congregations offer a variety of opportunities to commemorate this day of reflection against human trafficking.
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