On 11 March 2011, the earthquake of magnitude 9 occurred off the Pacific coast of Tohoku in Japan. This earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40m and brought catastrophic disaster to the Pacific coast of the Eastern Japan.
“The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges” was this year’s priority theme.
The Ecumenical Women's Forum (EWF), an association of 11 church women’s organizations in the Philippines, of which Women of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines is an active and founding member, expressed its solidarity with all women in the world in celebrating International Women Day on 8 March in Quezon City.
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.