October 28, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: dayton, ohio, university of dayton, human rights, civil rights, labor rights, international law, slavery, white slavery, sex slavery, exploitation, migrant workers, migrant labor, forced labor, sex trade, sex work, sexual exploitation, pimps, human trafficking, trafficking, conferences, modern slavery, slavery in America, slavery in America today, sweatshops, sweatshops in America, sweatshops in America today, Saipan, labor law, Midwest, Midwestern U.S., U.S. Midwest, modern sweatshops, Catholic Social Teaching, involuntary servitude, refugees, Gracehaven, human rights education, human rights studies
I put in more than a few hours at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, 1997-98, so I’ll promote a human rights conference they’re holding the weekend after next. The linked story is basically a news release about their “Dayton Human Trafficking Accords international conference,” November 9-10. Human trafficking is said to involve even the U.S., even the Midwest. ISTR horror stories involving Albanian and/or (former) Yugoslav refugees being enslaved in Europe also, at least during the ’90s.
October 27, 2009 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: bishops, Christianity, church denominations, church history, church jurisdictions, church patriarchates, church patriarchs, church provinces, churches, denominations, dioceses, Eastern Christianity, Eastern Church, Eastern ecclesiology, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, ecclesiastical provinces, ecclesiology, ecumenical councils, ecumenical synods, eparchies, great and holy council, history of Christianity, holy great council, Holy Spirit, jurisdiction, omophorion, Orthodox bishops, Orthodox Catholic Church, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Church, Orthodox dioceses, Orthodox Eastern Church, Orthodox ecclesiology, Orthodox jurisdictions, orthodoxy, patriarchs, religion, theology of church
As commonly used in reference to Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism – broadly considered (I can’t speak about other Churches) — in the Western world, the informal noun jurisdiction seems to indicate a particular ethnic, national, and/or patriarchate’s Church in a given country, region, or continent(s) … considered a part of The One Single Orthodox Church [or "The [...]
