Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking in Women from Eastern Europe

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  • Маrk R. R. ELLIOTT Dr. Elliott is Professor of History and Coordinator of Studies is History at Southern Wesleyan University, Central, South Carolina., United States

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Trafficking in Women from Eastern Europe

Abstract

Trafficking in women is widely reported to be the third most lucrative branch of international crime after contraband weapons and drugs.  It preys on economically desperate women and is fueled by the lure of extraordinary profits and a very low risk of arrest.
Between 175,000 and 250,000 women and children are trafficked annually from post-Soviet states, including some 50,000 per year from Russia.  So many Slavic women have been ensnared that in much of Europe “Natasha” has become the generic term for prostitute.
With the positive exception of the Romanian Orthodox Church, most Christians in post-Soviet territories do not appear to have recognized the seriousness of sexual trafficking from and within the region.  And, while Western Catholic and Protestant responses have been commendable, a great deal more needs to be done.  Christians, East and West, must increase their efforts to comfort the afflicted and to afflict those who do such grievous harm to millions of women and children created in the image of God.

Author Biography

Маrk R. R. ELLIOTT, Dr. Elliott is Professor of History and Coordinator of Studies is History at Southern Wesleyan University, Central, South Carolina.

Dr. Mark Elliott earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1969 from Asbury College and a master of arts (1971) and doctoral degree (1974) from the University of Kentucky. For many years he has served as editor of the awardwinning East-West Church & Ministry Report, a clearinghouse for information concerning the status of Christianity and evangelical ministries in the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe. He is the author of scores of articles, books, and reviews, including the highly esteemed Pawns of
Yalta. Dr. Elliott is Professor of History and Coordinator of Studies is History at Southern Wesleyan University, Central, South Carolina.

THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS #5 (2005)

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R. ELLIOTT Маrk R. 2006. “Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking in Women from Eastern Europe”. Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology, no. 5 (January):171-91. http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/article/view/88751.

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No. 5 (2005): Theological Reflections: Euro-Asian Journal of Theology

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