On February 2, faith leaders gathered in the U.S. capital to pray. What difference will it make? What is the role of prayer, worship, and faith in ending social problems that I care about, like extreme poverty and modern-day slavery? U.S. President Obama, in his speech to the gathered assembly at the National Prayer Breakfast, called […]

Christina Kaili, Project Coordinator at the Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies (MIGS), says a new trend has appeared in human trafficking since 2010, called “marriages of convenience”. In these cases, women, mainly from European countries, come to Cyprus under false promises of a better life, but the traffickers force them, through violence and threats, or […]

Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows. They […]