It was part of International Justice Mission’s (IJM) annual Freedom Sunday which encourages churches to unite in prayer for the issue.
CEO of the Christian charity, David Westlake, told Premier it’s a very critical issue as 40 million men, women and children are trapped in brutal slavery today.
“If I can put that a little bit into context, in the next hour, in the next 60 minutes, 120 children will be sold, and they’ll be sold into sweatshops and brothels and factories.
“And of course, we know that children belong in families, and playgrounds and schools.
This is a critical issue 120 children in the next hour, and an hour up to that, and the hour after that, and every hour of every day, people made in God’s image that he wants to restore to wholeness and to give them a future and a hope.”
More than 100 churches took part in Freedom Sunday.
Sheila from a church in Yorkshire said: “My prayer is that I do justice to this important subject, the work of IJM and that the Lord’s voice will be heard. At almost 80, this is a huge privilege for me to do this and to raise awareness of this powerful, effective ministry.”
In Ghana, traffickers sit in the congregations of churches in fishing villages around Lake Volta- the lake in which children as young as three are forced into hard, dangerous labour and face a daily risk of drowning.
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