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RUN Ministries is a live rescue and church planting effort〔(RUN Ministries homepage )〕 of Grassfire, a large conservative American citizen action networks claiming over a million active team members.〔(page on about/ Grassfire's website )〕 It was founded in 1990 by Eric and Becky Watt and currently operates in Iraq, Nepal, and Central Asia. Specifically in Iraq, RUN rescues women who have been sold into sexual slavery, often purchasing their liberation. It is a registered 501(c)3 tax-deductible US charity, presenting itself as:
RUN helps build long-term sustainable enterprises (cottage crafts) that financially under-gird and stabilize the work being done among previously unreached or under-reached peoples in order "to bring hope and dignity to those whose lives have been ravaged by spiritual darkness, governmental and religious oppression, and economic poverty." It further evangelizes these liberated persons and hopes to organize them into nondenominational (underground) Christian churches.
The parent nonprofit claims to be a division of Grassroots Action, Inc.,〔(Dun & Bradstreet/Hoovers information profile for Grassroots Action, Inc. )〕 a privately held for-profit Internet services company specializing in citizen action services, including petitions, activism services, and resource development. == See also == * 10/40 Window * 1926 Slavery Convention * Abolition of slavery timeline * Abolitionism * Anti-Slavery Society * History of slavery * Human trafficking * Indemnity * Indentured servant * Involuntary servitude * List of slaves * List of slave owners * Sexual slavery * Slave Trade Acts * Slavery at common law * Slavery in contemporary Africa * Slavery in modern Africa *Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement * United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery * Wife selling 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RUN Ministries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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