{"id":26406,"date":"2011-04-26T21:08:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/a-voice-for-the-voiceless-w\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:08:19","slug":"a-voice-for-the-voiceless-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/a-voice-for-the-voiceless-w\/","title":{"rendered":"A voice for the voiceless &#8212; women and children in China: Reggie Littlejohn speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy&#8221;<\/i> <font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">(Proverbs 31:8-9)<\/font><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Several weeks ago I focused my attention &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2011\/02\/chinas-war-on-women-and-girls.html\">our attention<\/a>&#8212; on the rights of women and children, especially unborn children, in China, by highlighting the work of Reggie Littlejohn. How can one be unmoved by the plight for another human being; in case, women and unborn children??? What about the preference for the poor? What about human dignity?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I met Reggie through my friend Suzanne Tanzi, the editor of <i>Traces<\/i> magazine, I was instantly drawn to her work for others. I recognized in her that Christ is working directly through the words and works for those who really have no voice in a country that forcibly holds a One Child Policy. China is among the most offensive countries when it comes to human rights abuses and our Chinese brothers and sisters need an advocate.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s an amazing interview with Reggie:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Open%20your%20Mouth%20--Littlejohn%20Interview.pdf\">Open your Mouth &#8211;Littlejohn Interview.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A recently published essay by Reggie Littlejohn:&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicforum.fisheaters.com\/index.php?topic=3438136.msg33447194#msg33447194\">China: Family Planning Official Stabs Man to Death<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The link above will take you another blog post which has links to Reggie Littlejohn&#8217;s work.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy&#8221; (Proverbs 31:8-9) Several weeks ago I focused my attention &#8212;our attention&#8212; on the rights of women and children, especially unborn children, in China, by highlighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/a-voice-for-the-voiceless-w\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A voice for the voiceless &#8212; women and children in China: Reggie Littlejohn speaks out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1898,2598,1778,2692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}