{"id":46390,"date":"2014-10-16T01:35:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T01:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/churches_unite_for_global_day_of_prayer_to_end_grave_crime_of_human_traffic\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T01:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T01:35:39","slug":"churches_unite_for_global_day_of_prayer_to_end_grave_crime_of_human_traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46390","title":{"rendered":"Churches unite for global day of prayer to end \u201cgrave crime\u201d\u009d of human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is being urged to pray for victims of human trafficking at services this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Sunday, a global day of prayer, action and worship backed by major Christian denominations in Britain, takes place on October 19.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers have produced a set of resources for churches with prayers, Bible studies, reflections, case studies and sermon notes to help mark the day.<\/p>\n<p>In a foreword to the resources, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, warns that human trafficking is a &#8220;grave crime&#8221; against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a form of modern day slavery and a profound violation of the intrinsic dignity of human beings,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is intolerable that millions of fellow human beings should be violated in this way, subjected to inhuman exploitation and deprived of their dignity and rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2014\/10\/churches-unite-for-global-day-of-prayer-to-end-%E2%80%9Cgrave-crime%E2%80%9D-of-human-trafficking.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is being urged to pray for victims of human trafficking at services this Sunday. Freedom Sunday, a global day of prayer, action and worship backed by major Christian denominations in Britain, takes place on October 19.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46390\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,40,74,389,635,168,144,119,114,184,177,151,112,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-sexuality","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}