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The African Women's Struggle: A Personal Journey from the Congo to America
By: Médine Moussounga Keener | August 1, 2005
The African Women's Struggle: A Personal Journey from the Congo to America
Women, Poverty and the Micah Challenge
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2004
The memories of child prostitutes on the streets of Bangkok are still swirling in my head. Even as the Lausanne prayer team walked and prayed through the streets of Thailand, one prostitute begged them to take her home. How can we encounter such suffering with- out longing to make a difference?
Sexual Exploitation and Violence toward Women: Global and Local Concerns
By: Ellen Armstrong | September 6, 2004
Sexual Exploitation and Violence toward Women: Global and Local Concerns
Conquering Sexual Sin in the Ministry
By: Joyce Strong | March 5, 2004
As more women are being called by God and qualified to minister in the body of Christ alongside men, both sexes must get their acts together. Their hearts — and minds — must be changed.
Gender-Based Violence and Biblical Equality: Case Studies in Sierra Leone
By: Jo Anne Lyon | January 31, 2004
I was in Sierra Leone on an assessment trip with World Hope International and connected with a Washington Post reporter. We traveled together to various parts of the country—he was researching stories while I was doing assessments.
African Advocate Links AIDS to Position of Women
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | June 5, 2003
The spread of AIDS in Africa is related to a low view of women, an opinion confirmed in a Wall Street Journal article published on July 9, 2002... the article stated that the spread of HIV is related to “the emotionally charged, culturally entrenched ways that men and women interact sexually.”
The Worldwide Suffering of Women
By: Shari M. Kelly | December 6, 2002
It reads like a tragic novel: Nearly two-thirds of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women. Approximately 6,000 girls are subjected to female genital mutilation each day, and 30% of girls subjected to its most radical form die from the effects. Four million women are sold each year as slaves. In sub-Saharan Africa, 55% of [...]
Feeling Pain in the Body of Christ
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2002
History teaches us that failure to recognize and empathize with suffering is dangerous physically and spiritually. I wonder if something similar has happened in the body of Christ. Part of the body is hurting, but needed change is not being made.
A Painful Issue
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | December 5, 2002
The reality is overwhelming: women are suffering appalling abuses and tragic deaths around the world. But we don’t want to avoid this truth because it’s uncomfortable; noticing and identifying with this pain is important for Christians.
Six Gifts Women Bring to the Church
By: Nancy R. Heisey | December 5, 2002
As with the stories of many other biblical women and churchwomen throughout the centuries, in Hagar we can glimpse some of the gifts that women offer to the church and to the world.