In a quiet tone, Archbishop Francisco de Assis da Silva of Brazil addresses the horror of human trafficking.
People are facing a diminishing ability to be self-sustaining and to survive amid unjust systems, the archbishop said.
“We are humans,” he said. “We are not things. We are not only numbers. We are human beings, made under the image of God, and we need to be loved, and we need to be raised in a situation where lives matter.”
Anglican Communion News Service is presenting a series of YouTube portraits as the Anglican Communion’s primates prepare for their meeting in early October.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
