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The largest group of oppressed and enslaved people on earth
Galen C. Dalrymple writes on Patheos: The sins of Girdharilal Maurya are many, his attackers insisted. He has bad karma. Why else would he, like his ancestors, be born an Untouchable, if not to pay for...
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Aaron Blanton: Why wouldn’t we want to help?
Don Graham reports for OneLife: BIHAR STATE, India—Aaron Blanton rubs the sleep from his eyes as he slides from his bunk on an overnight train to Patna, India. The trip, scheduled at nine hours, has...
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Matt Papa: Here and now, leverage your life
Don Graham reports: BIHAR STATE, India (BP) — Ajay Kumar stands straight as a rod in a line of green-sweatered boys during a school presentation near Katihar, India. The show is serious business,...
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India construction worker: ‘We are treated like cockroaches’
Siddharth Kara writes for CNN’s Freedom Project about workers, including children, trafficked by labor contractors to complete massive construction projects in New Delhi, India: Construction, like many...
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Escaping India’s child rape industry
Galen C. Dalrymple writes at patheos.com about a trip to Bangalore, India, to research the sex trafficking problem: … When Mary was just 5 years of age, she would be awakened by her parents during the...
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Death of gang rape victim sparks widespread protests
A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest rally in New Delhi. CC Reuters/Ahmad Masood NC Naomi Wolf writes: The crime seems incomprehensible. A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is dead, 12 days...
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149 slaves — 34 of them children — freed at India brick kiln
An Indian migrant child laborer works at a brick kiln near Srinagar, Kashmir, India. An estimated 13 million Indian children are required to work. Click photo to view slideshow. (CC Xinhua / Javed Dar...
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A touch of hope
Touch is almost unknown among the untouchables on India’s streets. By Will Stuart A child died during the night. The next morning Auto T. Raja lays a clean white sheet on the floor of an empty room in...
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Must we engage social concerns?
Should biblical Christians engage social concerns? Is helping the poor or pursuing social justice for the oppressed an integral part of the Christian mission? Or should believers simply focus on an...
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A pastor’s dream comes true: Feeding his family
Harper McKay writes for CommissionStories.com: Paulus Maharaj* had a dream. It was a dream that brought him up close and personal to one of the dirtiest, smelliest jobs in the world — raising pigs. The...
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