Here’s an interesting experiment: next time you are in a group of people – Catholic or not – ask them to name two anti-slavery organisations. Chances are that they won’t be able to think of any. But if they can, you can be pretty sure that the work of Religious Sisters won’t come up. It’s a scandal, really. Sisters (and it is overwhelmingly Sisters as opposed to male Religious or secular clergy) are doing this work in at least 80 countries – including all the areas most plagued by modern slavery. If they were united in a single NGO, they would be by far the world’s largest.
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Sisters versus human traffickers
here’s an interesting experiment: next time you are in a group of people – catholic or not – ask them to name two anti-slavery organisations...
Luke de Pulford and Sister Lynda Dearlove
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