Passage of the Day - February 18, 2013

Psalms 82:3

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

I am going to move on to the third item on my list – Russian orphans.  For quite a while now, we have been investigating why Russian orphans and the human trafficking problems around the world, and in Russia in particular, have been placed on our hearts.  Throughout Scripture, God takes up the cause of the orphan.  We, as Christians, should heed this cause as well.  Everyone has a different role to play, and my family is trying to find its role.

There are over 730,000 orphans in Russia today and 300 are discovered, on average, every day.  http://doorwaystohope.org/orphans

These are the children who aren’t a part of the 2,750,000 annual abortions statistic.  http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_abo-health-abortions . This is double the number of abortions in the United States and Russia’s population is about 2/3 of that of the United States.  No other nation comes close, statistically.

Of course, the orphans in Russia do not have good living conditions, are tossed out at 16 and typically get mired in drugs, prostitution, and suicide.

Unfortunately, since the return of Passage of the Day, the Russian government has made it very difficult for Americans to adopt Russian orphans.  As I agree with the notion that Russian Christians should step up and start adopting these little ones, it is a task we Westerners should not ignore.

I plan to delve into this in the time ahead.

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