The internet has become an essential part of everyday life, with live streaming used for video calls, sporting events and news updates. Yet there is a sickening and fast-growing issue where individuals, often from the West, use live streaming to pay to watch and participate in the live sexual abuse of children in developing countries, often involving children who are have been trafficked or coerced into performing these acts.
IJM's offices in the Philippines have been involved in cases of cybersex trafficking in 2011, and have already rescued children as young as 2 years old from this type of oppression. The Philippines is ranked as the top country producing and distributing videos of child abuse. This crime is escalating, and the links to the UK cannot be ignored.
On the 26th April 2016, International Justice Mission is joining with Christians in Government for a day of prayer and fasting. Join with us in the Chapel at Central Hall Westminster at 6-7.30pm to pray that governments, international law enforcement and internet providers would work closely together to bring an end to this crime.
If you cannot attend the event in London please pray where you are, whether alone or in a group, so that across the UK and the world we are united in prayer against this issue. Please join with us in praying that this exploitation would be brought out of the shadows and into the light. Pray that God would change the hearts and minds of both those who pay to watch this abuse and those who perform or arrange the abuse.
Read more: www.ijmuk.org/blog/filipino-children-young-2-rescued-cybersex-trafficking
International Justice Mission is a global organisation that protects the poor from violence throughout the developing world. IJM partners with local authorities to rescue victims of violence, bring criminals to justice, restore survivors, and strengthen justice systems. Inspired by God's call to love all people and to seek justice, IJM's team of Christian lawyers, social workers, investigators and other professionals protect the poor from violence without regard to race, religion or any other factor. www.ijmuk.org