The newspaper article ‘Faiths Unite on Slavery Fights’, published in December 2014, presents the Pope and religious leaders pledge to work together to end slavery by 2020.
Pope Francis and leaders from other churches and religions signed a declaration pledging to work together to help end modern slavery in the world by 2020. Pope Francis urged governments, businesses and all people of good will to join forces against this "crime against humanity.”
The article shows many individuals from other nationalities, with different beliefs and religions, coming together for the common good of humanity. This particular idea of men being united to be one is represented in the papal encyclical Nostra Aetate, ‘The Church exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religious, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life.’ This line taken from the encyclical presents that mankind should have a desire to work towards the common good through a positive spirit of dialogue and collaboration. In doing individuals will be empowered to recognise, pressure and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men.
According to the article, tens of millions of people are in chains because of human trafficking and forced labor, and it is leading to their dehumanisation and humiliation. Pope Francis stated that, “Every human person is born with the same dignity and freedom, and any form of discrimination that does not respect this truth is a crime and very often an abhorrent crime.” The declaration underlines that modern slavery, in the form of human trafficking, forced labor, and prostitution, as well as organ mutilation and trafficking – is a crime against humanity. This idea is evident in the encyclical, Nosta Aetate, ‘The Church, reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against men or harassment