Praying for an end to human trafficking

A young woman is branded with a barcode tattooed behind her neck.

A man shows his back scourged from beatings; a tearful girl with bruises over her body.

These were some of the images used during a virtual prayer service to observe the World Day Against Trafficking In Persons on July 30, to press home the fact that human trafficking is real and an international scourge.

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