End Slavery
Slavery. Many people think it's a relic of the past. But as you're reading this, the number of slaves in the world exceeds 27 million people.
Today we're working to end modern-day slavery. The movie below is brought to you by The Amazing Change Fund and tells the story of modern-day abolitionists and gives you easy ways to get involved.
Check out this video and then become part of the campaign to end slavery in this world:
The Amazing Change
Today we're working to end modern-day slavery. The movie below is brought to you by The Amazing Change Fund and tells the story of modern-day abolitionists and gives you easy ways to get involved.
Check out this video and then become part of the campaign to end slavery in this world:
The Amazing Change
posted by Greg Devitt at 7:56 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for this Greg. Addressing modern day slavery is especially appropriate in 2007 which marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Many people swelled the ranks of that abolitionist movement but it was essentially a Christian-driven movement just as it was in 19th century America.
We may say freedom ought to be the birthright of every human born and I certainly agree with that wholeheartedly. We may say that all who value their own freedom should be involved in securing and maintaining the freedom of others, whether the ways in which they are involved be great or small. But I also must set down that I think the call to set others free is particularly incumbent upon every Christian believer, that it is in the bloodline and DNA of each Christian man, woman, and child. Because it is what Jesus was and is about and ought to be what those who have been set free by Jesus are about also.
William Wilberforce, MP, the great leader of the movement that saw the end of the slave trade in Britain in 1807, would have been struck with fire at the ugliness and wretchedness of 21st century slavery. It would have been impossible to have held him back from confronting, challenging and terminating modern day slave trafficking. No matter how long it took. And it took him 20 years of Parliamentary debate to see the slave trade in its coffin. Another 27 to see Emancipation in Britain, the complete end of slavery itself, and that would happen a year after his death, though he knew on his deathbed freedom was just around the corner for the slaves of the Caribbean, numbering almost one million persons.
Now we have a slave trade that imprisons a number that almost equals the population of Canada and certainly equals the combined population of several European nations. Christian, Buddhist, atheist or Jew we ought to act. But especially if we are Christian believers who thank God for our own liberty of mind and spirit and body, who remember every day and every week how Jesus liberated us, it is we above all people who have a history, a theology and an experience that demands our commitment to the abolition of the slave trade that exists around us and to the freeing of all slaves, all persons, everywhere and forever.
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