April 2020

The February/March issue of the Newsletter from our colleagues at Contre La Traite des Êtres Humains focuses on concerns for minors during the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

As a practical theologian, Patricia moves into the world of the imagination as she reflects upon leadership in today’s global community in the light of God’s word.

Surprising as unplanned kisses, all you haven’t deserved
of days and solitude, your body’s immoderate good health
that lets you work in many kinds of weather. 

by Maryann Mueller for US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, April 2020.

On April 22 people around the world will celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day to demonstrate their support for protecting our environment. 

Now is the time to encourage all the young people you know to prepare short films (3 and a half minutes to a maximum of four minutes duration) on any aspects of anti-human trafficking awareness-raising.

L to R: Sr. Marie Josephine Fenando & Sr. Magdalena Eichenger,  RENATE Working Board meeting, Vilnius, November, 2019

This week’s news about RENATE members’ work at grassroots level,

The number of people across Europe identified as being victims of human trafficking rose by almost half between 2015 and 2018, according to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA).