May 1, 2025 — Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker: a reminder for the Pastoral Orientations against human trafficking

“Isn’t this sure­ly the fast worth choos­ing: releas­ing those unjust­ly bound, undo­ing their heavy bur­dens? Let­ting the oppressed go free, break­ing every yoke?”

Isa­iah 58

Sis­ter Mir­jam BEIKE, U.N. RGS Rep­re­sen­ta­tive at the UN in Gene­va for the Sis­ters of Our Lady of Char­i­ty of the Good Shep­herd, who worked 30 years with sur­vivors of traf­fick­ing in Ger­many and Alba­nia, presents the “Pas­toral Ori­en­ta­tions on Human Traf­fick­ing” below: