Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about modern human trafficking, specifically sexual slavery. Presented from a Christian worldview, Nefarious covers human trafficking in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia, alternating interviews with re-enactments. Nefarious was written, directed, produced and narrated by Benjamin Nolot, founder and president of Exodus Cry, the film's distributor. Nolot travelled to 19 countries to collect the film's content. Interviewees in the film include Agape International Missions founder Don Brewster, former prostitute Annie Lobert, and Swedish Detective Superintendent Kajsa Wahlberg. Laila Mickelwait (pictured), Exodus Cry's Director of Awareness and Prevention, screened the film in several countries in an attempt to persuade governments to make laws similar to Sweden's Sex Purchase Act, which criminalizes the purchasing rather than the selling of sex. Nefarious has won a variety of film awards, including the Honolulu Film Award for Best Screenplay, the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Award, and the Indie Fest Feature Documentary Award of Excellence.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
497 BC:
The temple to the Roman god Saturn was dedicated in the Roman Forum; its anniversary was celebrated as Saturnalia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
1583:
Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Godesberg
1926:
A coup d'état by the Lithuanian military replaced the democratically elected President Kazys Grinius with Antanas Smetona (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_Lithuanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
1960:
A US Air Force Convair C-131 Samaritan crashed shortly after take-off into downtown Munich due to fuel contamination, killing all 20 people on board as well as 32 more on the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Munich_Convair_340_crash
1983:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb just outside Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods_bombing
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
neotenous: 1. Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult. 2. (informal) Babyfaced. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neotenous
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.  --Humphry Davy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Humphry_Davy