Mumbai and the heart of darkness
October 20th, 2009 by Dan
I am sitting in a conference that is interested in planting a movement of the gospel in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). We just heard a report on the sex slave trade in Mumbai. Did you know that:
– 40,000 sex trade slaves ply their trade in a 2 square mile area in the middle of the city- and nobody in the police or government is trying to help them;
– pimps get over $200 million per year from this trade;
– girls are sold into this trade (mostly by their families) at age 10 or so;
– girls this young, because they are a flight risk, are held captive in hidden rooms and cellars, tied to their prisons, raped repeatedly, and tortured with among other things live electrical wires, until they are ‘broken’ and won’t flee;
– People who try to help them are targeted by the local mafia
This is not acceptable. This is monstrous, horrifying sin. This is the heart of satanic darkness. Pray for light to break this darkness. Pray for God to break this vicious cycle. Pray for the church to stand up and fight this. This is THE issue of our time.
Pray, and pray for a way to make this thing END.
