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03/09/2006
Ministry
Reaching Male Street Prostitutes to be Featured on EWTN 'Life on the Rock'
CHICAGO, Mar. 9 -- On March 16th at 8 P.M. (EST) John Green of Emmaus Ministries will be featured on EWTN’S “Life on the Rock” program. Green, a Roman Catholic Deacon of the Archdiocese of Chicago, will address the dramatic rise in street prostitution, as well as the urgent call to Corporal Acts of Mercy in our nation’s urban centers. According to statistics, men now account for nearly 45 percent of all prostitution arrests nationwide. Male street prostitutes often contend with homelessness, HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol addiction, generational poverty and criminality, and mental illness. “These men are among the most broken in our nation’s cities and a population that’s marginalized and abused, even within the homeless community,” says Green, who founded the outreach in 1990. “Emmaus is often the last hope of redemption for male prostitutes. Hustlers are frequently victims of violence, whether it’s the random violence of the streets, or the more focused brutality of abusive customers or sexual predators.” Serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer frequented bars where Emmaus teams do their outreach. Many young men do not live past age forty. Deacon Green notes that the majority of male street prostitutes don’t identify themselves as homosexual, but engage in homosexual acts in order to feed drug and alcohol addictions or to exchange for food and shelter. Unlike female prostitutes, male hustlers blend into the homeless population and general urban landscape. Emmaus Ministries is a work of Roman Catholics and Evangelicals together. The ministry has been featured in Christian media including on the Focus on the Family daily radio broadcast, the 700 Club, Moody Radio, and in New World, This Rock, Christianity Today, and Charisma magazine. EWTN is available in 104 million television households in 110 countries
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