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new4now ago

went off a different way looking up P

I found a newly formed group called The Santa Marta Group founded by Pope Francis in 2014

The Santa Marta Group is an alliance of international police chiefs and bishops from around the world working together with civil society in a process endorsed by Pope Francis, to eradicate human trafficking and modern day slavery

what I found interesting was the partners of this group

The Santa Marta Group is a growing global partnership that has members in over 30 countries. It includes: The Vatican

UK Home Office

London Metropolitan Police

UK Cabinet-level Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales

Diocese of Westminster

Interpol

Europol

FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)

National Crime Agency (UK)

US Department of Homeland Security

The Congregation of Adorers

I'm still looking it up, but what better way to redirect investigations away from the big guys

Still working on Papal Foundation, but not finding anything that hasn't been posted, but will keep it on the front burner

Gilderoy ago

Wow. This is highly intriguing. Thanks. Multiply this with the fact that Pope Francis is the world's foremost advocate of migrants and open borders, and it certainly makes such an association more than a little suspect regardless of its stated intentions----or maybe the group's **stated intentions **are what makes people like us most suspicious?

new4now ago

Founded in 2014 in the UK, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster heads the group

but yet I just found this

Archbishop Nichols Is A Shame For The Church https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/archbishop-nichols-is-a-shame-for-the-church/

This group has my attention a lot of angles to look up

think I will leave the Papal Foundation for others and see what I can find on this group

Didn't mean to take a right turn from your post, but think this might be something to look into

Gilderoy ago

Absolutely look into it. I'm looking to. Cardinal Nichols is a huge leftist and open borders proponent like Pope Francis. How can you seriously say you want to combat human trafficking if you want no controls on migration and actively work to facilitate hordes of undocumented people swarming across the globe?

new4now ago

Undocumented people , no papers, no one looking, easy to make disappear

There are four main elements to the Bakhita Initiative:

Bakhita Foundation

Bakhita Institute into Human Slavery

Caritas Bakhita House

Santa Marta Group

gonna try to grab whatever info I can find and then sort through it

this seems to be a relatively new organization

Gilderoy ago

Santa Marta Group was started in 2014 at Pope Francis' residence. Don't know if you saw what I wrote about the M_Rsection (Migrants and Refugees) organization also started by Pope Francis and under his personal supervision. So he has a special human trafficking task force (extrajudicial?) and a pro-open borders activist group under his own guidance, working at cross-purposes. Even Fr. Michael Czerny, the head of the M_Rsection office noted the difficulty of preventing trafficking among migrants:

“Traffickers can easily take advantage of the desperation of migrants and asylum seekers. Ending up in an irregular or undocumented status, they are at a very high risk of abuse and exploitation, including trafficking and enslavement. Therefore, the Holy See stresses the importance of ensuring adequate legal frameworks and reliable pathways to prevent migrants from becoming victims of human trafficking.”

You should read what else he says. He proposes this as a solution:

"We ought to recognize that we are facing a global phenomenon that exceeds the competence of any one community or country. In order to eliminate it, we need a mobilization comparable in size to that of the phenomenon itself.”

“The Holy See looks forward to participating in the high-level meeting to review the progress made on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, September 27-28, 2017 in New York,” Fr Czerny concluded.

new4now ago

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld

Have to take off, will check in when I can from phone, will continue when I get home