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Today is ANTI SLAVERY DAY! Tonight we were invited to a charity event for @youcanfreeus - a wonderful charity that are working towards ending human trafficking. A terrifying 40 million people are still enslaved in our modern world #helpendthis #antislavery #antislaveryday (at London, United Kingdom)
Here at Timpanys we're all about buying with a conscience so we are one of the stockists for these 100% silk scarves by @youcanfreeus who are an international human rights organisation fighting human trafficking. Available to buy in the accessories section of our website NOW. With profits going to the charity. #antislaveryday #antislavery #youcanfreeus #buywithacause (at TIMPANYS)
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher.
Anti-Slavery Day, Tuesday 18 October 2016 http://www.antislaveryday.com/
Spa Road, Bolton. Didn't make the edit. This girl was watching me and couldn't figure out what I was photographing so she crept up to peek around the corner. Find the story of what happened here at www.thedarkfigure.co.uk and have a look at this weeks previous posts. #antislaveryday #modernslavery #humantrafficking #humantraffickingawareness #endslaverynow #sham #onyourdoorstep #everydayuk #documentingbritain #neighbourhoodwatch #filmisnotdead #photooftheday #personalproject #follow #photo
The Gospel task is to recover freedom as a gift of God
Freedom is the word used in our times to describe human flourishing. Freedom for the individual to be themselves in a safe and supportive environment. A great vision – enshrined in Human Rights legislation and aspiration.
The great paradox of our times is that the more we speak about freedom, the more we discover about oppression and abuse. Amongst the most shocking challenges is the worldwide prevalence of modern slavery. Fellow human beings trapped as sex slaves, forced labour, pressured organ donors.
Freedom has become a space for the powerful, the criminal and the self-centred to exploit others – not least because when a human being is reduced to the size of the individual, each potentially ‘free’ person is in fact vulnerable and weak.
The Gospel task is to recover ‘freedom’ as the gift of God. The calling to fulfil ourselves not by indulging our appetites, but by relating creatively and graciously to our ‘neighbours’ - a term which especially includes the needy stranger struggling in the gutter of this life’s busy rush (Luke 1025-37).
There is an opportunity through which we can witness to the Good News for us and for others. Sunday has been earmarked as Freedom Sunday. Resources are available to help our public worship and our private devotions to be focused upon freedom – for those trapped in exploitation and slavery, and for our own witness to an understanding of freedom rooted not in individual rights, but in the call to find fulfilment through service to others, especially those in need.
I hope that we can each try to make a commitment to freedom. Giving thanks for the freedoms we are privileged to enjoy, praying for a richer witness to freedom in our world, and trying to use resources for Freedom Sunday and further this vital work of the Good News of Jesus Christ for our times.
- Dr Alastair Redfern, Bishop of Derby
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