United Nations Peace Keeping forces have also been rebuked about their involvement with local young girls in both the Congo and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In what may seem to be the normal way of life back home has often led to controversy as immigrants make their way to Western shores.
A multi-millionaire dollar Indian couple who made a fortune selling perfume had their property raided by police in Long Island, New York, to free two Indonesian women reportedly being held against their will.
As reported on America's network News broadcasting station ABC via “Night Line”, in southern California a young Arab girl was taken from an Egyptian family after serving as a “domestic servant”. This is a role she began in her native Egypt as a child, and was forced to continue in America. Today, she met a young Arab bachelor, and is a happily married woman. While this is a happy ending to this story it does not always turn out this way, and thousands of people around the world still find themselves trapped today.
Men are also held against their will at times. On June 6, 1993 the infamous voyage of The Golden Venture journey came to an abrupt end. Almost 300 Chinese immigrants paid $30,000 to set sail from Thailand before reaching their destination in the USA. The crew whom were mostly men were reportedly treated very cruel, and the woman (“Cheng Chui Ping” known as “Snakehead” or “Big sister Ping”) who helped arrange the voyage was later convicted of money laundering, and smuggling of illegal immigrants, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Most of those men were detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Today, The Department of Homeland Security), and then sent back home to China where they faced harsh penalties, but others appealed to the Bush administration for amnesty with ongoing adjudication procedures still in motion. But this demonstrates the reality of the world in which we live, and the plight many people face from day to day.
The preamble of this report began with Biblical quotations. When God informed ancient Israel of it's adulterous harlotry He was mainly referring to their politico-social alliances. He saw the course the nation was taking, and knew it was leading to a culture of moral breakdown. God sought to sew moral values in the fabric of the country's society, and He was comparing the nation to an adulterous woman, because they placed their political and social allegiance in unison with the surrounding pagan nations, as opposed to giving Him first place in their lives. This indeed would lead to an outbreak of sexual promiscuity as one of the consequences of removing Him out of their lives.
There is a saying among Christians, “You can be in the Church, but the Church may not be in you.” The Lord sought to create an analogy, so that the people could see how much they had fallen. Hopefully, education, legitimate job growth, and strict penalties against child endangerment will be taken seriously by local governments in an effort to fight a sustained battle against those who endanger, enslave, and exploit children, and entrap women against their wills for the purpose of sexual exploitation and monetary profit. To those who know of someone who needs help my prayer is you are not afraid to go forward to local authorities for the benefit of their freedom, if that method is available. Jesus came to set us free, and may you be free indeed.
