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April 24, 2013Orange your day - End violence against women in the workplace
The 25th of every month is an Orange Day to end violence against women and girls.
On the 25th of each month, join the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign and orange your day!
April 1, 2013
From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Women of faith are reinterpreting the traditional understandings of sacred texts of Christianity to challenge violence condoned and promoted within the church. What can we learn from such efforts about confronting all forms of institutional violence?
On 6 March 2013, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Young Women’s Leadership Development of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Presbyterian Women Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Interfaith Worker Justice co-hosted a parallel event at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The event explored Ecumenical Women’s talking point ...
March 31, 2013
Sung Yeon Choi-Morrow - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Sung Yeon Choi-Morrow shares her work confronting economic violence against women through the organization Interfaith Worker Justice at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Mary Ann Pedde - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Mary Ann Pedde shares her work confronting the institution of the legal system vis a vis violence against women at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Ann Rhee Menzie - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
The Rev. Ann Rhee Menzie shares the story of her work confronting institutional violence against women in the church at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Ola Leasi - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Ola Leasi, Presbyterian Women Aotearoa/New Zealand, presents her story of how culture can be violent towards women the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Biblical reflection - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Pamela Tankersley, of Presbyterian Women Aotearoa/New Zealand, presents an interactive look at John 8:1-11 at the the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Exegesis - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
The Rev. Carmen Torres, Presbyterian Women, and Alex Zareth, Young Women’s Leadership Development Field Staff for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) present an exegesis of the Biblical story of John 8:1-11 at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Scripture reading - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
The Rev. Laetitia Wells, Presbyterian Women, reads John 8:1-11 at the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 31, 2013
Opening - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Sheila Louder, Vice Moderator for Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), welcomes attendees to the parallel event From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Pamela Tankersly and Ola Leasi, from Presbyterian Women Aotearoa/New Zealand bring greetings and a song.
March 31, 2013
Commitments - From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence
Participants in From Hurt to Hope: Women of the Church Confronting Institutional Violence, the parallel event at the Commission on the Status of Women, discussed what they had heard in small groups and then shared their commitments on how they would follow up at home. Commitments included:
- Break the code of silence. If you know of sexual going ons, report it to the police. Be active. Call or write congress to give your opinion either for or against what they have voted for. Call radio stations to protest hate speech.
- The faith based communities and churches need to talk about ...
November 27, 2012
Opposing violence against women - a prayer
This prayer of the day for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was composed by The Rev. Sarah Henkel and offered at the White Plains Presbyterian Church. It originally appeared on Pastor Jeff's Blog.
It is reprinted here with permission and in the hope that others will use or adapt the prayer as we work for an end to violence against women.
Creator God,
You are God of hope and new life; God of healing and restoration. You are the beginning and the end, the One who walks with us through all of life and for ...
November 26, 2012
Going orange to end violence against women and girls
November 25 was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invites the world to join the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign on the 25th of every month by observing an Orange Day.
Several Presbyterian congregations took action and bore witness for an end to violence against women on November 25:
White Plains Presbyterian Church heard a sermon "The Way Things Are Is Not How They Have to Be" by the Rev. Jeffrey Geary and congregation members wore orange.
Worshipers at the United Presbyterian Church of West Orange ...