INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND AWARENESS AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
INTERFAITH PRAYER VIGIL
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 – ST. BAKHITA DAY
THEME FOR THE YEAR 2024: JOURNEYING IN DIGNITY: LISTEN, DREAM, ACT
This interfaith prayer of this year’s International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking is an invitation to integrate the journeying for dignity centered on the four elements of nature. We can offer prayers, reflections, and rituals that honor and connect with the elements of earth, air, fire, water, and metal in listening, dreaming, and taking action in combating human trafficking.
For this year’s Vigil of Prayer, we are invited to listen, dream, and act to journey with each person with dignity. We know everything is interrelated and exploitation of people cannot be tackled without a respectful relationship with all creation. Hence, we invite you to reflect on the realities of human trafficking and the five elements of nature: earth, water, air, fire, and metal.
We listen to the Earth, the foundation of human dignity, to Water and its flow of compassion and empathy, to Air, the breath of freedom and justice, to Fire, the spark of resilience and empowerment and to Metal and its ability to cut through life. By understanding this connection, we can gain insights into how to combat trafficking and promote human dignity.
Listen, dream, and act for a world where people and the earth, the water, the air, the fire, and the metal praise the ONE!
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