OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY: RESISTING DISTRACTIONS
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at I Timothy with a look at a passage with advice to slaves (and masters), a statement on good teaching and a warning against the “love of money” – and how it all links together…
Some 85 child slaves rescued from Sudan’s streets and gold mines
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nearly 100 human trafficking victims have been rescued in a major police operation in Sudan, including dozens of children forced to work in illegal gold mines, Interpol said on Monday. Operation Sawiyan involved 200 Sudanese police officers who rescued 94 people, including 85 minors, from criminal networks in and around the capital, […]
BRAZIL: “FREEDOM BUT NO DIGNITY” – SLAVE DESCENDANTS FIGHT FOR LAND
KARLA MENDES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the descendants of Brazil’s slaves are fighting for land rights, 130 years after slavery was formally abolished…