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CHILDREN NEED LOVE AND CARE AMID ALL TRIALS OF LIFE

For centuries, slavery had been a plague of Africa and mainly central Africa. Imagine, in chronicles of the 11th century, we read already about the export of African slaves. Many missionaries realized that as long as slavery lasted, their preaching of Christ’s Good News of faith, hope and liberation would meet with great obstacles and serious opposition of the Arab slave dealers. They gave the anti-slavery campaign all they had; their talents and the prestige of their personality. Their campaign finally achieved its aims and this was their dream. Most of them did not live to see it but those who walked in their footsteps are the very people at the source of the abolition of slavery in Africa. But unfortunately, slave trade and all other forms of injustices have taken another shape in this 21st century where Africans are selling their fellow Africans, human trafficking is at its peak, innocent children are disappearing now and then and innocent blood is being shed each day. All these we