From the clandestine violence of child-trafficking, hers is a voice of anguish, hope By James E. Copple In the small town of Lafilya, Abebech and her family struggled to survive the worst drought in memory. Theirs is an impoverished community of nearly a thousand people in southern Ethiopia, where social advancement is impossible, and a […]
By James E. Copple Human-trafficking lives in the shadows of our global urban centers. “Shadows.” That’s her word, and she is a 15-year-old Eritrean girl sold by her parents and trafficked via container-truck to Nairobi, where she lives in a small shack. And hers isn’t an uncommon story in East Africa, where famine and drought […]
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This five-hour, one way trip to several communities seemed like just one more humanitarian mission. For reasons I cannot totally explain, it became so much more.
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I spent most of the year in the developing world with particular reminders of Ethiopia, Swaziland, and Kenya. I observed for the first time a Church working underground in a hostile political and religious environment. I was both amazed and startled by the harshness of religious bigotry and the courage of people who have made commitments to […]
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