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For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. -Isaiah 2:3 

Israel needs your help to see righteous legislation go forth from Zion.  Israel has been entrusted with a mandate to bless the nations and there is an opportunity in the coming weeks for the passage of an important anti-prostitution bill in the Knesset translated as “The Prohibition of the Purchase of Sexual Services”. This bill criminalizes the client and can set a precedent for purity, creating a ripple effect in the nations of the earth. There is a strong correlation between prostitution and trafficking. The passage of this bill would be a significant blow to the lucrative trafficking industry in Israel which generates an estimated one billion dollars annually. It would hinder both the cover and ease which enable the oppression of women to operate freely. 

Prostitution is currently legal in Israel. It is estimated that there are one million visits to 10,000 prostituted women in Israel every month. This is in a country with a population of only seven million. Many of these clients “visit” more than once a month. 

Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute; lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of wickedness.-Leviticus 19:29

The Israeli government stands on the threshold of a historic opportunity, an opportunity to close the door to wickedness and bring a blessing to the nation of Israel. Your involvement is crucial.  On February 12^th, the bill will be presented to the Israeli Ministerial Committee, known as the Knesset Committee.  The decisions and recommendations of this committee have profound influence on the vote of the full Knesset.   Israel’s democracy is extraordinarily responsive to their citizens and the concerns of the global community; your voice is crucial.  Your impact will be most effective by joining us in the following three initiatives. 

Pray: Cover the ministers and 119 Knesset members in prayer, that they may defend the cause of victims who are being exploited and oppressed. We are asking you to mobilize prayer for this issue as it is the only foundation for justice to be established upon.

Social Network: spread the word. Raise awareness concerning Israel’s opportunity to address and effectively combat trafficking through the passage of this bill. Please tweet, Facebook or repost this blog and the link below.

Write: Israel takes human rights issues very seriously; therefore it is essential for public support to be raised on behalf of this issue.  For this purpose a petition has been drafted to be sent to the Knesset Committee. Your voice can play a significant role in the debate and vote of the Committee on February 12th.

If you would like to join us in this endeavor please read and sign the petition below:

 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/israel/

Catherine’s Story

The current trend towards pervasive hyper-sexualized behavior has flown under the banner of progress and freedom. Our western society has cast off conservative values to embrace a new expression of sexuality and freedom. Traditional views of purity are considered prudish while promiscuity is heralded as achievement. The rhetoric surrounding this movement beckons us to be open-minded, experimental, and tolerant. The pressure to conformity preys upon our most vulnerable primordial instincts – the desire for love and pleasure.

I find it interesting that people in our society wish to talk about dignity without morality; when in fact, no such thing exists. Freedom without morality is simply anarchy.

The torrent of injustice that cascades through the global sex industry threatens the very substance of our humanity. Veiled by seduction and masquerading as freedom, the injustice of sexual exploitation has become deeply entrenched within our world. Little by little, our sanctity and solidarity are breached. Little by little, our decency and dignity are shredded like a cheap cloth. This pervasive sexual brokenness exposes the depth of humanity’s wound like perhaps no other issue. The gaping sore of our sexual abscess requires healing that is beyond humanistic solutions.

A girl caught in the vortex of today’s sex industry faces challenges that are insurmountable in the natural. On the outside she has been ostracized from friends, family, and community. In most cases she has no education and cannot just pull herself up by the bootstraps. Emotionally, she suffers from a deep sense of personal shame and self-hatred. She has become psychologically ensnared in a pattern of thinking that alienates her from her true self and prevents her from experiencing love. Spiritually, she is heavily oppressed, with an inner barrenness. Freedom for these girls is much more than being rescued off the streets, or out of a strip club, brothel, or cage. Restoration in the lives of these broken individuals is ultimately not about human perseverance, but about God’s relentless love.

Tantamount to the tragedy suffered by women whose innocence is stolen form them is the tragedy suffered by the men who steal it. The men in the sex industry are the gatekeepers. They are the owners of the strip clubs, brothels, karaoke clubs, girly bars, and massage parlors. They are the bouncers, managers, pimps, and traffickers. They are the johns who drive the demand for sex that fuels the industry. And they are an emasculated representation of the male race. Blinded by their own lust for sex, money, and power, their lives are reduced to the basest form of cowardice. Strutting about as studs, pimps, and players, they ignore the overt exploitation of the girls they seek to dominate, unaware of their own sickness. One simply cannot purchase happiness from another’s misery.

Men must rise above the egocentric rationalization of their sexual dominance over women. A redeemed masculinity begins with a sacrificial love that doesn’t seek its own interests, but the interest of others. Our sexuality is something to be guided with discretion and great respect for our female counterparts. Dominating a women and exposing her economic inequality is not macho and does nothing to demonstrate manhood. Jesus set forth the kind of masculinity that is honorable—love expressed in humility and servanthood. As desperately as women must be freed from brothels, karaoke clubs, and cages, men must be freed from the self-centered lust that parades as manhood.

While the lamp of liberty fades in the winds of change, we must not remain silent. We must arise and fight to recover a freedom in society that is worthy of its citizens. The global swell of unrestrained perversity necessitates a wholesale countercultural revolution to invoke the kind of widespread change that restores our dignity and expunges every counterfeit. Amidst the fog of social corruption we must regain a moral compass to navigate our way to a new day—a day where a young woman is valued not just for her body, but for her humanity.

The last thing Somalia needs is military unrest. With droughts wreaking havoc on the entire southern half of Somalia, and neighboring countries willing to invade to “help” (the last time Ethiopia invaded Somalia, the casualties ranged in the millions), this is the exact wrong time for a militant Muslim faction to arise and assert tribal dominance. But arise one did: al-Shabaab.

Drought and famine alone do not cause people to flee, the Guardian points out. While Kenya has seen refugees from all of the Horn countries in decades past, recently only one population of farmers is fleeing across international borders: Somalia’s. The reason is that for the last 20 years Somalia has lacked a stable government, and al-Shabaab currently has control of much of southern Somalia.

Seeking shelter from the famine and military transcription by roaming al-Shabaab militias, refugees have gone generally to one of two places: Mogadishu, the bombed out shell-of-a-capital-city that has never really recovered from American-led war maneuvers in the mid 1990’s, and DaDaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. While DaDaab technically sits in Kenya, the border is nothing more than an imaginary line through the desert, one boldly crossed first by al-Shabaab militants when they raided DaDaab and abducted several aid workers, then crossed later by the Kenyan military in an effort to route insurgents allegedly hiding in 10 Somali towns.

To the West, DaDaab, a refugee resettlement camp that has swollen in population and, were it officially a city, would be Kenya’s third largest. Built to house 90,000 refugees, it quickly filled to five times its capacity when, at one point, 1,300 Somalis a day were streaming across the Kenya border.

Nighttime is a dangerous time to be a woman in DaDaab. With no shelter to speak of, and a scant military presence that cannot possibly patrol the farthest outskirts, rape and abuse is common.

But an even greater threat in this migration pattern, to Mogadishu or DaDaab, is the rise in human smuggling and trafficking. In the midst of the chaos, it is far too easy for criminal enterprises to deceive young women and girls into traveling to Kenya under the auspices of safety and protection, as was the case with the young women interviewed by the Guardian.

To understand the utter lack of protection, one must only look to Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu. Mogadishu is populated by the huddled masses that have streamed there (instead of Kenya) from the hinterlands to find any meager ration of food or medicine, perhaps the last in all of southern Somalia’s drought stricken regions.

Throughout the long months of the drought in the Horn of Africa that started last spring, al-Shabaab has seized what little control it can grasp, kidnapping and murdering westerners, raiding the offices of aid organizations, and even infiltrating refugee camps to “recruit” new members. Al-Shabaab has turned a natural disaster into a crisis as hundreds of thousands of people have fled from their homes in the pastoral, arid prairies. Now, there are no aid groups even in Mogadishu: last autumn, al-Shabaab scared off all of the aid groups when they abducted and killed several workers in the city.

Though al-Shabaab has largely lost its hold in Mogadishu, peace and victory seldom last long there. Somalia has lacked any unified government to speak of since conflict broke out in 1991. It would be inaccurate to say that Mogadishu is the nexus of the struggle against al-Shabaab; the terrorist group that has been tormenting aid groups and western visitors all along the border of Kenya and the coast.

But the battle for Mogadishu is the battle for a stable government, a rule of law that will extend protection to the hundreds of thousands of women and children sent fleeing from their homes and into the machination of highly sophisticated human trafficking networks.

This City in Focus comes from The Horn of Africa Region. To read an overview of this region click here.

We have selected the Horn of Africa as our first regional focus in 2012. The typical list of devastations that plague many parts of Africa ravage this region, and make people particularly vulnerable: poverty, poor education, unemployment, and HIV/AIDS. In addition, these countries cannot effectively control or track the flow of people across borders and suffer from a massive immigration crisis, generally into Kenya and out of the surrounding countries. Imagine a stretch of border 250 miles long that is so porous that roughly 200 people a week can simply walk from one nation to another undetected and you have the beginning of an understanding of the problem Kenya is facing with its African neighbors. And where there are people on the move, there is an opportunity for human trafficking.

But it gets worse. Currently the Horn is facing a food and water crisis due in part to the largest drought the region has experienced in 60 years. The famine of 1984-85 claimed the lives of 1 million people in Ethiopia and Sudan. The current crisis is not yet classifiably a famine, says the Guardian, but between Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Somalia, 10 million people are in danger. The regular droughts that in the past have come once every 10 years are getting closer together, recently spaced only 1 year apart. DaDaab, a refugee camp engineered to house 90,000 people, sits just across the Kenyan-Somali border. Because of the drought and threat of Islamic radicals, DaDaab has swollen far beyond its capacity to 450,000 people. At the height of the crisis last summer, Christian Aid reported that between 1,300 and 1,500 people were daily streaming into DaDaab’s three camps. Nick Guttman, head of Christian Aid’s emergency programs, reported that Ethiopia’s Kobe camp for refugees, engineered to house 25,000 people, was maxed to capacity just a month after opening last June.

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A big part of the problem is that the radical Somali Muslim organization al-Shabaab is looking to institute a strict application of Muslim shari’a law, a state-wide implementation of the rules and values of the Koran. In keeping with this agenda, al-Shabaab has rejected outright any influence from western powers, including intervention by aid organizations. In November, al-Shabaab raided the offices of many prominent aid organizations (including World Vision) in southern Somalia and cut off all aid including food and medical supplies critical to the survival of 160,000 children.

All of this amounts to a heightened vulnerability for women and children throughout the region. With dire and desperate circumstances comes a migration of people that otherwise would not be happening, and with so many people on the move it is nearly impossible to track who is where—or who is missing. Thousands heading to refugee camps to Arab nations provides an easy cover for smugglers and traffickers moving victims to major city centers. Displaced peoples rarely have the appropriate papers to begin with, and traffickers can easily inveigle trusting and desperate people with even the flimsiest promise of protection and hope.

Predator and Prey

When UNICEF conducted an investigation into human trafficking in Africa, they found that almost half of the women interviewed regularly experienced physical abuse. The climate and culture of gender inequality has subjugated women to a de facto second hand status which provides the basis for all manner of abuses and human trafficking. This continent-wide trend is only magnified within the sprawling refugee communities in DaDaab, where young girls face molestation and abuse each night on the outskirts of the camp, far from the protection of the scant police presence.

But if this seems at all ad hoc, think again. One Kenyan human trafficking expert told the Guardian that human trafficking in the Horn of Africa is a very developed network of professionals. The network includes representatives and allies in every agency and aspect of transportation, including “politicians, senior police officers, NGOs, senior immigration officials, airline officers and resettlement officials in various countries. The general flow of people in this region is from surrounding countries, into Kenya and more specifically Nairobi, where human trafficking victims are then either dispersed to tourism destinations or countries abroad.

Children for Sale

Places like Mombassa, Kenya, a coastal resort city just a few hundred miles south of Mogadishu, has become  a sex-tourism hot spot. The awful thing about human trafficking globally is that it can be a bit like the game whack-a-mole. As one area of the world gains notoriety as a “hot spot,” governing officials crack down through a rash of new legislation. Sex-buyers, particularly those in search for child prostitution markets, get the point. Before you know it, another region sprouts up as the new “it” spot. In the last 20 years or so, Thailand, Costa Rica, and the Philippines have all at one point or another ebbed and flowed. Now, Kenya is in the limelight.

A study conducted by the African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN), indicates that there is an increase in the numbers of women and children trafficked not only within the Horn countries, but also out to other nations such as Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, and even Arab countries like Yemen and Saudi Arabia which are just a short trip across the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea from the Horn.  The United Nations High Commission for Refugees reports that many refugees seeking asylum in nearby Yemen travel the frequented Ethiopia-Djibouti trucking corridor only to be swept up into the sex trade by organized criminal activity.

All of this amounts to a familiar story: when war, poverty, disease, and drought send hundreds of thousands fleeing from their homes in desperation, there are always those criminal enterprises who look to capitalize on their vulnerability. For the first part of this year we will take a deeper look into a few key cities in the Horn of Africa and learn how we can intercede on behalf of the poor and vulnerable.

The holidays hold an array of memories and emotion for the women in restoration with Exodus Cry. For some, the Christmas season is associated with the acute pain of neglect or violence. While for others it was the only time of year where some vestige of positive memory can be traced.

A sense of home and belonging is immensely important on Christmas. The deepest wounds surrounding this season are connected to family relationships and abuses. Therefore, the greatest healing comes through God’s covenantal love and spirit of adoption made flesh through earthly families receiving His daughters as their own. To be joyously accepted by a Godly family, given an identity as cherished daughter, valued and enjoyed for one’s unique personhood, and shown unconditional love is a wonder that works miracles for all of us – especially for those who have never experienced this accurate reflection of the Father’s heart.

At the heart of Christmas is celebrating Immanuel – God With Us. Surely Jesus is, has been, and will be with each one who has suffered the anguish of a broken family. Jesus put on flesh and came into a natural family as a vulnerable baby. He experienced our pains and our joys. He lived a sinless life and took the full extent of sin for all time upon Himself that we may be brought into His family forever. What a glorious value statement and promise from God on being with us and on becoming part of a whole family with Him.

During these next weeks, please keep our girls in prayer specifically through the following requests.

• May they experience God’s shalom and joy deep in their hearts, knowing they are beloved daughters.
• Pray that the Lord brings redemption on this season and opportunity for new memories during the holidays.
• May our girls be surrounded by covenantal friends and spiritual family members who overflow with unconditional love and support.
• Pray for God to raise up more families who would open their hearts and homes to adopt, both in the spiritual and the natural.

“Seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.” – Isaiah 1:17

Working in the anti-trafficking field, I am confronted with stories of execrable sexual abuse almost daily. I have found oppression to take many forms: emotional or psychological manipulation, physical bondage, verbal abuse, or even sexual exploitation and, worse, enslavement. Considering all the disturbing elements of these cases, one of the most prevalent is the absence of an advocate. Time after time, no one was willing to stand up against the exploitation of a little girl or boy.

Oppressors can be found in every walk of life. They range from priests of the cloth to human traffickers in Russia, and often, they are veiled behind a cloak of respectability. In most cases when one of these individuals is finally exposed, there is a track record of people who were aware of their abusive behavior and yet did nothing to stop it. My heart breaks when I consider how many of these atrocities could have been averted through the simple actions of an advocate—an intercessor.

In the book of Isaiah (chapter 59), we hear God’s revealing response to the injustices permeating Israel’s society. He “wondered” that there was no intercessor. “Wondered” can also be translated as “stupefied” or “appalled” and is only used twice in Scripture (Isa. 59:16 and Isa. 63:5)—both times to describe God’s shock that there was no one to bring justice, no one to stand up for the oppressed. Piercing through the cloud of Israel’s outward piety, God identifies the core of the nation’s malignant condition—social inaction.

Today many people consider the pursuit of social justice as an addition to their faith. But God considers it evidence of our faith (Jas. 2:20). As the Church, we are called to embody the heart of Jesus on behalf of the oppressed. “Pure and undefiled religion before God . . . is to visit orphans and widows in their trouble” (Jas. 1:27).

If we are to express God’s heart to those who are oppressed we must be aware of every aspect of this calling. We are not only to care for the oppressed, but to literally stand against their oppressors and “rebuke them.” God exhorts us to “REBUKE the oppressor” (emphasis added).

Too often we mistake silence as mercy. It is not. Silence and inaction provide the perfect atmosphere for injustice to permeate our churches, schools, workplaces, and homes. The apostle Paul charges us to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” (Eph. 5:11, emphasis added).

If we are to walk out the biblical mandate to pursue justice we will inevitably take a radical and assertive stand against those who seek to oppress others. Messengers of justice do not tolerate or coddle the oppressor. We do not make excuses for them or rationalize their behavior. Oppressors are not to be psychoanalyzed. They are to be stopped.

Our morally relativistic culture is painfully deficient of accountability, forming the seedbed from which oppressors are arising, en masse, many times without the conviction that there is anything wrong with the acts of injustice they perpetrate. Once they have reached the point where they can justify their oppression, their conscience is seared. Delivering an incisive rebuke will be as much for them as it is for the vulnerable ones they seek to exploit. The light of truth has the power to awaken any individual from his cave of delusion.

Oppressors must be confronted with the essential truth that all human life is sacred and inconceivably precious in the eyes of God. They must be admonished that they are destroying a person whose life is made in the very image of God and created for an eternal purpose. To rob a person of this divine right is to rob God Himself.

There can be no confusion regarding the judgment that awaits those who oppress other human beings. To the oppressed, God says, “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you” (Isa. 35:4). But to the oppressor, God says “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea” (Mk. 9:42). In other words: What I will do to you is far worse than any retribution you could possibly face at the hands of the most ruthless person. It truly is a “fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb. 10:31). Those who oppress and exploit others have nothing to look forward to but the fiery judgment of God’s eternal wrath.

An Open Letter to Oppressors and Perpetrators of Suffering and Injustice

What you are engaged in is a violation of human life. You are causing severe, possibly irreparable, damage to the person you oppress. Through your heinous actions you have destroyed their spirit, their soul, and their body, robbing them of the freedom, sanctity, and dignity their Creator endowed them with.

I feel compelled to warn you that though I have many ideas of how to punish you, none can compare with the judgment God Himself has prepared for you if you persist in your oppression of others. Incredibly, you have a marvelous and almost unbelievable opportunity to surrender to God, to repent of and turn from your oppressive actions, and to receive Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who bore the wrath of God for all who turn from their wicked ways and accept and follow Him. For it is only through the cross of Christ that a just God is able to forgive sin without denying justice.

However, should you choose to continue in your current path, make no mistake, you will surely die and bear the full weight of God’s wrath, for He is righteous and just. And in your eternally reprobate condition you will suffer incomprehensible torment for the ages to come, without end. On the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men (2 Pet. 3:7), when “we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10), these very words will testify against you, and you will know for all eternity that your path of destruction was avoidable and that you alone are to blame for the judgment you bear.

Therefore, I pray for you, as Jesus instructed us to pray for our enemies. But I don’t pray that God would overlook your despicable actions. Rather, I pray, with trembling in my heart, that God, in His kindness, would lead you to repentance (Rom. 2:4), and that you would come to your senses before you stand face to face with the eternal Father of all those you defiled through your self-centered lust for power. He is the God who said, “For jealousy is a husband’s fury; therefore He will not spare in the day of vengeance” (Prov. 6:34). “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Gal. 6:7). I can only fathom what the bowels of hell hold in expectation for you, should you refuse God’s offer of mercy (see Isa. 14:9). But if you turn from your life of sin and oppression and call upon the living God, He will make you a new creation and give you His peace, for you were “created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Eph. 4:24).

If your heart is stirred to turn away from your oppression and accept God’s free invitation of forgiveness and you would like to receive further prayer and counseling, please email us at: info@exoduscry.com.

Benjamin Nolot was recently interviewed by Randy Bohlender on The Spirit of Adoption radio show. The full episode is below.

The term “iron fist” was often used to describe the rule of dictators like Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin as they terrorized Eastern Europe. A German official in the 1940’s, said he foresaw: “an iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.”

The iron curtain represented the isolation and oppression over Eastern Europe until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. However, there is still very much an iron fist rule in the East Bloc. Today its dictators are in the form of mafia and organized crime; those who intimidate to corrupt democracy and exploit the vulnerable––largely through young women and children being sold for sex.

As our team of 5 women set off for this region of the world, we felt the weight of the powers and principalities we would confront. Even stronger, we felt the excitement of joy and expectation, knowing our authority through Jesus would be sent out and we would see nations set free.

We faced the “iron curtain” reality in the concealment of exploited women and ignorance of the issue in the Polish and Ukrainian society. As widespread as awareness has become in the West, especially concerning key regions in Eastern Europe, it’s amazing to see how unaware these nations themselves still are. We must pray for a mighty tearing of this curtain and for a holy fear to turn many hearts. Our team was privileged to walk in His authority, see the fruits of His Kingdom, and prophesy of the fullness to come in Poland and Ukraine.

All throughout our ministry, we witnessed the power of a gentle touch as opposed to a steel grip. Even the hardest hearts softened quickly when confronted with a kind word and compassionate eyes.

Our team was shown such grace in the opportunity for street outreach to exploited women. We were invited to a safe-house, welcomed into an AIDS clinic and spoke to a group of graduating orphans about the dangers of trafficking lures.

The situation in Ukraine is especially dire. Statistics say that every one in three people in Ukraine has AIDS and that this country has the fastest growing AIDS epidemic in the world. This is evident as 90% of a local church congregation we visited had contracted the disease.

Despite this tragedy, we saw the Lord stir up zeal in the church. A Ukrainian pastor asked for training teams and materials to help the congregation start an outreach and an aftercare program in their region. Other church leaders in Ukraine invited us to speak at national conferences on the issue of trafficking and God’s heart for justice. We connected with leaders from Israel, Ireland, Poland and Ukraine––many wanting to screen Nefarious in their countries. The Lord definitely sparked a fire in hearts among His church.

God has done quite a work during this significant time in Eastern Europe!

An article by Benjamin Nolot was recently published in Relevant Magazine. Below is a teaser of the article:

While filming Nefarious: Merchant of Souls—a documentary on the global sex trade—I traveled to a small village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I had heard that the village was a hotspot for child sex tourism, but I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived.

When the dust around my vehicle settled after the long trip down the bumpy dirt road, I saw a white Western man standing in front of a dilapidated shack. The man, probably in his late 40s, was bartering for sex with a child outside of a shanty brothel.

My film crew and I quickly exited our vehicle and approached the man. When he saw us, and noticed the equipment we had in tow, he sprinted toward the main highway. We gave chase, catching up to him just as he saddled the back of a moped taxi.

Adrenaline pumping, emotions swirling, I grabbed him by his shirt and stared straight into his eyes. The look on his face was one of sheer cowardice and it seemed there was a film of perversion glossed over his eyes. After I raised my voice, demanding he never return to the village again, I let him go.

As we walked back to our vehicle, I pondered what I had just faced. Who was this man? What was his story? How did he end up in this village, on the other side of the world, paying for sex with a child?

Then it occurred to me—this man didn’t wake up the day before and decide to fly to the other side of the world for a lustful, perverse transaction.

When first considering human trafficking, it may not seem like the issue has anything to do with you or I. To us, human trafficking seems like a troubling issue that poor souls somewhere out there—somewhere far from here—face.

Yet, when we begin to question the injustice, we must consider the condition of our culture. What kind of culture is producing so many men who are eager to buy women and children for sex, contributing to a $32 billion annual human trafficking industry? The same culture that produces and perpetuates a $100 billion per year pornography industry.

Boys growing up in this culture form an objectified view of females at an early age. Ninety percent of them will view pornography between the ages of 8-16 with the average age of initial exposure being 11.

When a young child’s fragile mind is exposed to the graphic images in pornography, it distorts his view of girls, sex and relationships. He begins to see them as inanimate objects, devoid of humanity—a thing to be conquered rather than a person to love.

By the time many reach adulthood, they have been disinhibited by their exposure to the graphic images in pornography. Consequently, a man will only fantasize for so long before he begins to rise up and demand the living embodiment of his masturbatory fantasy. As a result, we have an entire generation of men mongering for sex and willing to pay for it.

To read the full article by Benjamin Nolot, click here>

July 15th and 20th two separate operations were carried out by the Chinese police. Each resulted in a major bust of human trafficking rings and the rescue of abducted infants.

The first operation uncovered a professional child trafficking ring where the leader, a Vietnamese woman, smuggled infants and young children from Vietnam to Southern China. The babies were drugged with sleeping pills and transported by the Beilun River. The police takedown ended with the rescue of eight infants, ages 10 days to seven months, and 39 people detained.

In the second case, authorities of over 14 provinces and independent regions dispatched approximately 2,600 officers in an effort to eliminate a large cross-region trafficking organization. 81 abducted infants, ages 10 days to four months, were recovered and 330 suspects arrested.

Together, the two police crackdowns were successfully concluded with the rescue of 89 infants and the arrest of 369 trafficking ring suspects. The babies are now in the custody of hospitals and health care facilities for medical care and observation until such a time as their parents can be identified.

These operations were a collaborative campaign of the Vietnamese and Chinese police to combat cross-border child trafficking. This joint effort will continue through September 15th.

Governments and authorities are beginning to take notice all over the world. Where complacency reigned, vigilance is replacing it. Praise God that He is opening people’s eyes to the truth behind sex slavery. Light is shining and exposing the darkness. The Lord is revealing that He still has control over all.

As we stand together in prayer, we will loose the heavens like never before to eradicate the malignant sex trade. Many are recognizing the truth and it’s time we stand with them, taking up our weapons of the Spirit and fighting back by crying out the name of Jesus!

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