Slavery today

Around 27 million people are enslaved today. In a day of immediate news and open protests of all sorts of issues, that figure is probably as surprising and staggering to you as it is to me. Human trafficking is a primary portion of this number. It has close to the same influence and revenue of drug trafficking. Over one million of these each year are children, and usually they are trafficked as sex-slaves and mail order brides.

O come, O come, Emmanuel,

And ransom captive Israel

That mourns in lowly exile here.