Luis CdeBaca is ambassador-at-large for the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. He is a former prosecutor and received an award for his work as lead trial counsel in the largest slavery prosecution in U.S. history, in a case involving a garment factory in American Samoa.

Read a column about Diwali gift-giving by author Arthur Magida, posted at Beliefnet.com.

Read an Oct. 28, 2005, Associated Press article about Pope Benedict XVI condemning human trafficking for sex and calling for the humane treatment of women migrants.

Read a Dec. 15, 2005, Washington Post article about a focus on johns and pimps in the battle against prostitution.

Read a May 22, 2013, article in The Guardian about the Catholic Church’s fight against proposed budget cuts in the United Kingdom’s legal aid system. The church says the cuts would limit assistance for victims of human trafficking.

Read a story, posted at Beliefnet.com, about how Hindus in America celebrate Diwali.

Read a May 23, 2013, article about the human trafficking problem in Wisconsin and commentary on the film, Not Today, that portrays the violence and devastation of the lives of those forced into the slavery.

Bishop James Stanton of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas has been active nationally and internationally in the Anglican debate over the role of gays in the church. He was involved in the founding of the American Anglican Council, which works to oppose the ordination of sexually active gays and lesbians. 

The Rev. Jack B. Rogers is a lifelong evangelical and former leader of the Presbyterian Church (USA). In March 2006, he published a book, Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, describing how he has changed his position from opposing gay ordination to supporting it.