When Sister Rose Ann Barman gave a seminar on sex trafficking to community members in Colorado Springs in 2014, one of the people in attendence asked, “‘Well, what are we going to do about this?’” The Benedictine nun at Benet Hill Monastery wanted to do more than...
This month, Sister Teresa Ann Wolf, who served as the director of the Multicultural Center for several years, is at the Mexico border helping to provide temporary shelter and feed refugees and immigrants. Wolf presented information about the current border issues at the Watertown Public Library...
The Beauty and Challenges of the Autumn Season By Kathleen Coll, SSJ The autumn season is a favorite of mine. Usually, the weather here in the mid-Atlantic is mild with cool evenings, Autumn can also bring cold rainy days with colder days ahead. We need to remain...
Preying on the Vulnerable……Let Us Pray and Advocate by Sally Duffy, SC [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="645"] "Farmworkers picking & bagging lettuce" by yaxchibonam is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0[/caption] Labor trafficking advocacy can often get overshadowed by sex trafficking in discussions with state and federal legislators. This is...
Pope Francis joined religious and world leaders in calling for an end to human trafficking on 30 July, the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. He tweeted: “I invite everyone to work together with the victims to transform the economy of trafficking into an economy of...
Local Sister dedicates her golden years as a ministry to increase awareness and help eliminate Human Trafficking ...
By Jennifer Reyes Lay, Executive Director of AEHT In the 2019 General Assembly of Talitha Kum for its 10th anniversary, over 50 networks of women religious working to end human trafficking throughout the world gathered to set priorities for the coming years. In reflecting on the...
Chains. People locked "together with the weight of an ox-chain in the beating sun forced to walk the distance to damnation" to the slave market. That's a description from Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, about enslaved people and a type of caste system in the 19th-20th century...
ST. LOUIS: As people throughout the United States prepare to celebrate Independence Day this weekend, we are reminded of the many people in our own communities and throughout the world who are still not free due to the global crime of human trafficking. Alliance to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jennifer Reyes Lay (Executive Director) Alliance to End Human Trafficking Jennifer@SistersAgainstTrafficking.org | 267-332-7768 Survivor-Advocate Theresa Flores Hired as AEHT Program Director ST. LOUIS: Alliance to End Human Trafficking (AEHT) is proud to announce that Theresa Flores will be joining their staff as the new Program Director for...
