{"id":46204,"date":"2021-04-08T00:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T04:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=46204"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:17:49","slug":"a-hidden-army-of-astonishingly-heroic-nuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/a-hidden-army-of-astonishingly-heroic-nuns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Hidden Army Of Astonishingly Heroic Nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36419\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/logoinside2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/logoinside2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/logoinside2-255x51.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2021_13\/3461122\/210331-sister-rose-paite-4-ew-128p_acc4d44d1273ed54e71d4202d840915b.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Sister Rose Paite consoles a woman in the Guwahati Railway Station in Assam, India.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[At a time of so much discouragement with the course of the Church &#8212; from the abuse crisis to drops in vocations and attendance, to intramural divisiveness &#8212; a recent story explosively reminds us of its courage, power, and goodness.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em>From NBC:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">GUWAHATI, India \u2014 Sister Rose Paite stepped inside this sprawling city\u2019s main train station and scanned the crowd. She often visits public gathering places like this as part of her life\u2019s mission: to save children from being trafficked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In seconds, Paite was off. She had spotted a situation that alarmed her \u2014 a young girl, maybe 15 years old, sitting beside a much older man in a crisp button-down shirt. Paite walked up to them and began asking questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before walking away, the diminutive Roman Catholic nun warned the man, but she said he was dismissive.\u00a0\u201cThat girl, truly, will get into trouble,\u201d Paite said. \u201cShe is so vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Paite is not a lone crusader.<\/span> She\u2019s part of a vast but little-known network of Catholic nuns dedicated to fighting human trafficking across the globe. The organization, Talitha Kum, was formed in Rome in 2009 and now operates quietly in 92 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The group is made up of roughly 60,000 religious sisters. The work they do is often dangerous and daring \u2014 confronting pimps on darkened streets, patrolling dusty alleys that host brothels. The sisters also operate safe houses in several countries, providing refuge for women and girls fleeing their captors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/hidden-army-very-brave-nuns-fight-child-trafficking-n1262640\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mywabashvalley.com\/federal-executions\/william-lecroy-executed-at-u-s-penitentiary\/\">]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2021_13\/3461123\/210331-sister-lourenca-marques-ew-120p_dc57eb49258a8a65db255040487759d9.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Sister Lourenca Marques in Goa, India.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1617842612\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"A Huge Hidden Army Of Astonishingly Heroic Nuns\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[At a time of so much discouragement with the course of the Church &#8212; from the abuse crisis to drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}