{"id":395734,"date":"2026-02-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=395734"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:22:40","slug":"human-trafficking-taking-action-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/human-trafficking-taking-action-for-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Human trafficking: taking action for justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n\n<p>Greetings to everyone on behalf of the Focolare Movement worldwide, as we join in prayer for this digital pilgrimage. Together with all of you, we want to raise our voices to God to ask for an end to human trafficking and to affirm the dignity of every human being: <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-48721ae9d833fb162a34e8fed29fd861 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-53acd6ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"color:#114722;background-color:#f1f5c6;box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\">\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>O Lord, our God,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You love every one of your people. You have given us the gifts of the earth so that we may all live in peace as your children. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Today, a cry is rising up to you from those who have been violated, those who have been exploited in degrading ways, those who are victims of human trafficking.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Help us, Lord, to stand by these sisters and brothers of ours. Multiply the forces of good to encourage their hope in the possibility of a new life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Make the hearts of the indifferent sensitive. Grant that every citizen, even those who hold the fate of peoples in their hands, may grow in awareness of the need to fight this serious social scourge. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lord, we ask you that we may be able to spread the global appeal that is being launched today, so that Your will may be done on earth as it is in Heaven.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>United, let us continue to pray and act for justice. <br\/>Thank you to each and every one of you for being part of this chain of hope and of love that is stretching across the world.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Margaret Karram<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Video in Italian: activate subtitles and select the desired language. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tratta di persone: agire per la giustizia\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1dFJ0PZ1E3g?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>To review the Digital Pilgrimage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/tY-8zUHMrlg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/tY-8zUHMrlg<\/a><br\/>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/preghieracontrotratta.org\/?lang=en\">https:\/\/preghieracontrotratta.org\/?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:125px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message from Margaret Karram for the Online Pilgrimage of Prayer \u2013 for the 12th World Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking, 8 February 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":395733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2839,3166,2844],"tags":[4100,3660,3366,3349,3196],"class_list":["post-395734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiesa-2","category-margaret-karram-en","category-sociale-3","tag-di1-en","tag-giornata-contro-tratta-en","tag-margaret-karram-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395748,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734\/revisions\/395748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}