Thailand

Thailand is an economic powerhouse in Southeast Asia. The country is relatively stable despite its political turmoil in recent years. The economic prosperity attracts a massive foreign migrant population in the region. They try to apply for jobs in Thailand through employment agencies in their respective countries. However, the majority of these agencies are fraudulent and serve as a front for human trafficking. With ties to influential political and law enforcement in Thailand, these traffickers operate without restrictions and smuggle thousands of unwitting foreign migrants into the mainland. When they arrive at their places of work, they soon realize the trouble they are in. Instead of becoming housekeepers, cooks, or waitresses, the migrant women find themselves engulfed in Thailand’s sex trafficking trade. The men do not fare better. They find themselves in servitude and forced labor under inhumane conditions. 

Pray for God’s supernatural intervention to demolish everyone responsible for the human trafficking rings operating in Thailand. Pray for their networks to whittle and wither away (The Bible, Psalm 64: 6-9).

Thailand means “Land of the free;” however, many are in bondage. Despite a relatively stable and industrialized economy, slavery, sex tourism and trafficking, drugs, and organized crime are rampant. A constitutional monarchy since 1932, a new king ascended the throne at the end of 2016 and signed a new military-drafted constitution in 2017 designed to pave the way for a return to democracy after numerous coups. However, critics say the new constitution has only strengthened the sweeping, unchecked, and unaccountable military powers. A public protest movement was active during 2020 -2021 but declined in 2022 due to an increasing climate of fear and persecution created by the Thai government. Though Protestant missionaries have been working in Thailand for 200 years, 88 percent of Thailand remains unreached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.