FREEDOM DAY!

In the third and final extract from articles for the forthcoming IMPACT e-zine, this article looks at slavery past and present, in the lead up to Freedom Day:

The film Amazing Grace will help us to understand the efforts that Christian campaigners like William Wilberforce made to abolish the transatlantic slave trade, but we must not forget that Christians also made efforts to maintain slavery.The work of Christians who sought to liberate people from slavery isn’t over. In the 21st century modern day slavery continues. Worldwide there are 12.3 million victims of forced labour, and 2.4 million people are trafficked each year, 1.2 million of whom are children. People are trafficked into many different situations including prostitution, begging, forced labour, military service, domestic violence, forced illegal adoption, and forced marriage.

You can read the full article in the March edition of IMPACT, which will be distributed to those on the CPF e-mailing list on Monday 12th March. It is free to add your name to the mailing list and you can do this by emailing us at cpf-online@excite.com. Please put 'CPF' in the title of the email.