NightLight International works to prevent commercial sexual exploitation and help its victims escape from it by providing alternative employment and other assistance. CEO Annie Dieselberg founded the organization in 2005 after years of missionary work in Thailand with her husband, an evangelical pastor. In Bangkok, NightLight operates as a business and as a nonprofit; in the […]

Read a Jan. 3, 2014, Religion News Service story about efforts to end the sex trade in Thailand and how American evangelicals in particular are working to help women break free of it.

Nancy K. Kaufman is chief executive officer of the National Council of Jewish Women. She has written about the group’s work, with others, in combating human trafficking in the U.S. since the early 1900s. Contact through the council’s New York headquarters.

Read a Feb. 5, 2014, essay by Nancy K. Kaufman, chief executive officer of the National Council of Jewish Women. Her organization and others have worked since the early 1900s to protect immigrants and other vulnerable people from traffickers, she says, and the effort continues.

Read a Jan. 2, 2014, story from National Catholic Reporter about how Catholic bishops, organizations and individuals around the country are voicing concerns over the natural gas industry practice known as fracking.

Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis is a Roman Catholic sister in the Dominican order who has been deeply involved in environmental work for decades. In 1980, she helped create Genesis Farm, an Earth literacy center in Blairstown, N.J., and she serves as its director. In 2007, the environmental magazine Grist named her one of the world’s top […]

Read an Oct. 16, 2013, article in The Atlantic about Roman Catholic nuns from a variety of orders who have become deeply involved in environmentalism.

Read a Nov. 4, 2012, Q-and-A at Patheos.com with religion professor Bron Taylor, who suggests that theology sometimes gets in the way of climatology.