Ep. 331 - The Church’s Role in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar are talking about human trafficking, a deeply troubling issue that must be recognized for its severity. More people are enslaved today than during the transatlantic slave trade, with an estimated 21 million victims being trafficked for exploitation. Traffickers profit from this exploitation, and it happens globally, every day. Addressing suffering is not enough; those responsible for the suffering must also be called out. The church has a responsibility to res...

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0:00.0	There was a big bus like five years ago in Irvine.
0:02.5	They were, they had prostitutes,
0:04.8	trafficked prostitutes from Japan,
0:06.8	and they were in a really nice apartment complex.
0:10.8	They had like eight or nine different apartments
0:12.8	that the traffickers were renting out,
0:15.7	and it was basically a brothel
0:18.5	in the middle of a middle upper class community.
0:21.6	I mean, you guys know Irvine.
0:22.9	It's a nice community cars.
0:23.9	There was a big bus this past week in Los Angeles,
0:26.2	where hundreds of people went down.
0:28.1	But to your point, Ray, you know, Tim Keller,
0:30.0	he had said, if you're helping suffering people,
0:32.6	but not calling out the forces that caused the suffering,
0:35.7	you're not fully doing justice. Right? So you're right,
0:40.1	right? We have to take it a step further. Why is this happening? Where is this happening? What can I do
0:46.3	to kind of be involved in this? We're talking about the church's role in the fight against human
0:50.7	trafficking. And I think that we have to start with, there's a responsibility to defend the oppressed.
0:57.0	No.
0:57.6	Do we recognize that?
0:59.1	All right.
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