Stop Human Trafficking and Exploitation. Protect, Help, Empower, and Restore Dignity (SHEPHERD) educates lay and religious leaders about human trafficking from a Catholic perspective, equipping them with needed knowledge and skills to combat forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation at the local level. If you are from a parish, diocese, school, or community group and want to respond to the Church's call for heightened commitment against modern-day slavery, then SHEPHERD is for you.
Email MRSShepherd@usccb.org to request the online SHEPHERD toolkit, sample presentation, and leader's guide to help you get started. We encourage you to use SHEPHERD resources to organize workshops, discussion groups, prayer sessions, community outreach, service activities, advocacy campaigns, and more!
Hear directly from SHEPHERD parishes and dioceses working to prevent trafficking and protect victims in their communities. Watch USCCB's St. Josephine Bakhita webinar.Our awareness must expand and extend to the very depths of this evil and
its farthest reaches … from awareness to prayer … from prayer to
solidarity … and from solidarity to concerted action, until slavery and
trafficking are no more. -Cardinal Peter Turkso
To learn more about the Vatican's anti-trafficking outreach
and educational activities, visit the Pontifical Academy of the Social
Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences' human trafficking website.
Select from 16 documentaries and feature films and then use the discussion questions to get the conversation started. Due to the nature of the content, these are recommended for older youth, young adult and adult audiences. Check out our SHEPHERD Movie and Discussion Guide.
The Stations of the Cross
began as the practice of pious pilgrims to Jerusalem who would retrace the
final journey of Jesus Christ to Calvary. Later, for the many who wanted
to pass along the same route, but could not make the trip to Jerusalem, a
practice developed that eventually took the form of the fourteen stations
currently found in almost every church. The
Human Trafficking Stations of the Cross is a resource for you to meditate on
the human rights violation of trafficking and its parallels to His suffering on
his last day. Through these meditations and prayers, we remember all of those
who are trafficked into modern day slavery and suffer at the hands of their
captors. Downloads of the stations are available in English and Spanish.
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