Twenty years of impact
In 2005 a group of women gathered in Brisbane to confront the global tragedy of modern slavery, leading to the founding of ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Australia Against the Trafficking of Humans).
In 2005 a group of women gathered in Brisbane to confront the global tragedy of modern slavery, leading to the founding of ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Australia Against the Trafficking of Humans).
Australian Catholic Religious against Trafficking of Humans (ACRATH) is marking 20 years of working towards eliminating human trafficking and modern slavery through raising awareness, advocacy and companionship.
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Managing to keep the faith during a traumatic event that changed the course of his family was no easy task but the experience resulted in many ‘gifts’, Jesuit priest Father Richard Leonard told a gathering in Adelaide this month.
The Easter chocolate rush might be over but a group of St Aloysius College students is continuing its campaign to highlight the issue of child slavery in the chocolate industry.
Our family is not big on presents for Mother’s Day. I once made the mistake of saying that it was way too commercial and another symptom of the Americanisation of Australian society, or something like that.
Catholics have been urged to ‘pray, reflect and act’ to raise awareness and ultimately bring an end to the scourge of modern day slavery.
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