2 Timothy 3:1-8 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
Police in Italy have broken up an international ring that conspired to kidnap children who were at the center of custody battles.
The statement from police says those involved were special forces veterans and frequently put the lives of the children at risk. The kidnappers would charge tens of thousands for the abductions, mostly from northern Africa to Europe.
The group began in October 2012 by abducting a child in Tunisia and taking them to Norway. Police stopped the group’s second operation in November who intercepted phone calls of the group’s boat provider.
Investigators found plans for operations in Cyprus, Lebanon and Egypt. The four arrested members of the gang face kidnapping and human trafficking charges.
