State Department report focuses on global slavery

In a few days, the U.S. State Department will be issuing a report about the global human trafficking trade insofar as selling forced labor and prostitutes. As many as 27 million people, mostly women and children, have had their freedom taken from them. The issue is increasingly drawing the concern of religious leaders and organizations.

During 2010 alone, the State Department says 12.3 million people were subjected to some form of bondage. Meanwhile, the cable network CNN has been sponsoring the Freedom Project to raise awareness about the scourge of human trafficking.

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Woman returned from Qatar to Libya faces sure peril

In Qatar, a Libyan woman who claims she was gang raped by soldiers of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was deported back to Benghazi, Libya, according to United Nations officials on Thursday.

Her deportation again cast light on the human rights issues surrounding Gadhafi's regime as NATO continues its nightly aerial bombardment of Libyan military installations. The U.S. Government has expressed its concern for the safety of the woman.

The NY Theological Seminary is an institution dedicated to multiculturalism, diversity, social justice and religious tolerance. The mission of the seminary is to prepare men and women, from every background, for careers in ministry.