Responding well to violence against women
Rebekah Rankin writers about "Jesus: The provider of hope, safety, and compassion".
*Please be advised that this post deals with themes of violence and abuse against women.
Over one in three women globally will, at some point in their lives, experience gender-based violence. If that feels like an abstract number, think about it this way: how many women or girls are in your church, school, workplace, neighbourhood, among your family or friends? Now apply the one-in-three statistic.
Elaine Storkey, former LICC Executive Director, described it as a ‘global pandemic’. This is an unfortunate reality of our workplaces, neighbourhoods, regular haunts – even our churches.
This article is from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity section on Connecting with Culture, Understanding Culture.