Holocaust and Trafficking

I posted this on a prayer network we are trying to starting in our town. Its a bit of a slow start. Only 8 people on board, 2 of them us, one is an email address we are using, 3 people using email address they hardly check and one lovely active lady. Lots of prayer needed to start a prayer network in a denominationaly divided town.

But anyway what really did strike me as I prayed in remember the Holocaust and our present human trafficking injustices is how similar they are and I wonder how history will remember how we as Christians dealt with human trafficking. So much gets ignored because we would have to so change our ways. I see it as so similar to Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery and the Holocaust and now.

"Just wanted to send out a prayer request to remind everyone to just pray about

1. that 10th Jan is Holocaust remembrance day and that it would be good to pray for all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust - the millions of Jews but also the Slavs, handicapped, and those who stood up to Hitler. And whilst I was praying this morning about it felt we also should pray about those who turned a blind eye to it all and that we are not like them

which brings me to

2. the 24/7 prayer community are praying from 10th Jan to 17th Jan in regard to Human Trafficking - which very much centres around the sex industry but also covers those who are involved in the chocolate and even the food industry, where we want more for less. And in this I felt whilst praying that so often we turn a blind eye to it because we really do not want to know. We can stand up against it when it is in the sex industry but to think that if we do not buy fair trade chocolate then we can actually be getting chocolate that has been grown and picked by children in slavery. This is not an exageration. And even some of the regular foods we get in our supermarkets are picked by illegal immigrants who have been trafficked over here with the promises that the streets are paved with gold.

Dear Jesus please help us to love and care for all and open our eyes to the injustices of this world."