At the beginning of the annual Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, the Revd Terrie Robinson said that churches across the Anglican Communion are uniquely placed to challenge and change how society thinks about gender-based violence.
A two-year Bible Study course for women offered by the Women Desk of Lahore Diocese, Church of Pakistan, together with the Catholic organisation Maktaba Anaweem has recently concluded with the awarding of Certificates.
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa will next week officially join an international campaign to end violence against women and girls known as the White Ribbon Pledge campaign.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori meets survivors of war, sexual violence and disease in the dioceses of Bukavu, North Kivu and Boga in the Anglican Church of Congo.