In a recent pastoral letter, the Coadjutor Archbishop of Sevilla and the Apostolic Administrator of Cordoba, Juan Jose Ansenjo Pelegrina, called for “the eradication of child slavery” and said April ...

Almost thirty years ago, a boy named Iqbal Masih was shot dead near Lahore. He was twelve, the age most children should be in school, not running from factory owners and debt collectors. Iqbal had ...

When Iqbal Masih was four, his parents sold him into slavery. For the next six years, he was shackled to a carpet-weaving loom most of the time, tying tiny knots hour after hour. By age 12, he was ...

Following are letters from sixth-grade students in Jan Parmelee's language arts class at Steele Middle School in Muskegon. All Steele students have been studying the book "Iqbal" by Francesco D'Adamo ...

Pakistan’s government has awarded one of its highest civilian awards to a Catholic carpet maker who was assassinated for advocating against child labor. President Arif Alvi conferred the ...

In Pakistan, it was common practice for moneylenders to offer loans to struggling families in need of food and medicine in exchange for the services of their children, who were "bonded" to work off ...

The film is inspired, like the novel, by the true story of Iqbal Masih: he is sold for 16 dollars to a rug merchant and moneylender in Lahore, Pakistan. We have set the movie in Pandar, an imaginary ...