We are so grateful, beyond words, for your prayers.
The operation we were all praying for throughout this past night was a TREMENDOUS SUCCESS! The team in South Asia is finalizing release certificates with the government authorities and moving each former slave into safety and freedom. Please pray for this process throughout the next 24 hours - and check-back for further details tomorrow.

We can also rejoice that two other major operations were successful this week! In another location of South Asia, six people were freed from slavery in a rice mill. And in Cambodia, 12 trafficked women and girls were rescued from a violent brothel. I have posted further details on the Cambodia rescue below.

As always, your words of encouragement (simply use the “comment” function below) are a tremendous source of strength to our staff on the front-lines, and to those who are in the first moments and days of freedom.

CAMBODIA RESCUE
This week our team in Cambodia worked with the local authorities to bring rescue to 12 women and girls, all whom were trafficked into a brothel of particularly violent, sordid conditions. Praise God that each of these women and girls are now safely in aftercare shelters, and by an extraodinary work of God, ALL three suspects in this case have been apprehended into police custody.

IJM aftercare staff learned that many of the girls were beaten regularly.  The girls showed IJM staff the scars from beatings. Photos taken of the room in which the girls were held at the brothel reveal a windowless, dark, dirty, small “prison” from which they were not permitted to leave. A staff member said the room “looked fit for rats.” In addition, they were fed only one meal each day. Any other food was to be paid for by the girl to the brothel owner with money they rarely had.

These girls are now FREE. Join the IJM team around the world in praising God and praying for each of these girls, that they would be ushered into new lives of daily healing and restoration, met with care by our God of all love.