(Thanks to Martha Ann) Let’s
try to work with people of different faiths as the Pope is doing: Pope
and other religious leaders commit to eradicating human slavery.
Pope Francis said
human trafficking occurs virtually everywhere, from slums to the world’s wealthiest
cities, hidden behind closed doors or in plain sight on streets where women are
forced into prostitution. (Reuters/Landov) December
2, 2014
ROME — Declaring that
human trafficking is “a crime against humanity,” Pope Francis and the leaders
of other major faiths across the globe vowed Tuesday to work to eradicate
slavery by 2020. “In the eyes of God,
each human being is a free person, whether girl, boy, woman, or man, and is
destined to exist for the good of all in equality and fraternity,” says the
declaration signed by Anglican, Orthodox, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Muslim
leaders during a ceremony at the Vatican.
The meeting was sponsored by the Global Freedom Network, a faith-based
network that Francis launched earlier this year with Archbishop Justin Welby of
Canterbury, the leader of the 80 million-strong Anglican Communion, and Ahmed
Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al Azhar Mosque in Egypt, considered the
Vatican of the Sunni Muslim world. Among
the signatories to the document were two rabbis, an imam and a sheikh, two
ayatollahs, a Hindu guru, a Zen master, and an Orthodox patriarch---eight
different religious groups in all. Read
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