{"id":3874,"date":"2023-02-10T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2023-02-10T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:55:47","slug":"international-day-of-prayer-against-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/international-day-of-prayer-against-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 8, 2023 the Church observed the ninth International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking on the feast of Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947), who was abducted and enslaved in South Sudan at the age of 9. Eventually she escaped the worst fate when, at the age of 15, she was purchased by an Italian family. She came to Italy and found freedom.<\/p>\n<p>As a religious Sister of the Canossian Congregation, Josephine Bakhita gave witness to a life of Christian service. She was canonized by Pope Saint John Paul II and is the patroness of those trapped in servitude. Imposed by her abductors, her name Bakhita means \u201cLucky One.\u201d What some call \u201cLuck\u201d she recognized to be the gift of God which brings eternal blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the video message of Pope Francis for the Ninth International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking on the theme <b><i>Journeying in dignity<\/i><\/b>, which you can also read in English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/pont-messages\/2023\/documents\/20230208-videomessaggio-tratta-persone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>May those in need of the basic freedom to experience their personal dignity be helped by our prayer and action every day!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-menu-image dashicons-before\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-8e15f145b981792e380d002736cacd04 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:725px; max-height:725px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Videomessaggio del Papa per la Giornata contro la tratta di persone 2023 che ricorre l&#039;8 febbraio\" width=\"600\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgZBGV9jbUQ?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 8, 2023 the Church observed the ninth International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking on the feast of Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947), who was abducted and enslaved in South Sudan at the age of 9. Eventually she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/international-day-of-prayer-against-human-trafficking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}