What Would Jesus Say About A World Such As This?
Not a pleasant message for the up & coming valentines day but a crucial message indeed!
I was reading my mail and in reading this...
One In Three women worldwide will be beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
Up to 70 percent of women worldwide encounter violence.
As many as 6 out of 10 migrant women from Central America are raped on there journey to the United States.
Native America and Alaskan Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely than non-Native women to be raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S.
Between June 30 and July 3, 2013, 186 attacks on women protestors were reported in Cairo's Tahrir Square area.
The armed conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) continues to rage on, and civilians face a precarious humanitarian situation - with sexual violence against women widespread.
Survivors of sexual violence often face stigmatization and further abuses by members of their family or community, as well as a host of devastating health problems, including the risk of acquiring HIV and AIDS.
Sexual assault is a worldwide epidemic -with one in five women facing rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
From Amnesty International of the USA.
And that does not include the Pain and Shame Of Fistula.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/04/us-childmarriage-fistula-idUSTRE7731E520110804 As the complete pelvic bone growth would be at 21 years of age.
Laws to protect children are not a bad idea. The older the better for the protection of the children and their emotional wellbeing but..
But what would Jesus think about the way many children & women are being treated today?
How come the world is in such a mess?
