Eliminate Gender-Based Violence
Sign the petition below and demand the U.N. Security Council appoint a Special Representative who can help hold countries accountable for stopping repeated gender-based violence and assist survivors of rape and assault. Read full original post.
Read MoreTell Congress: End Global Hunger
Call on Congress to support legislation to combat hunger and create sustainable solutions to help families to provide food for themselves and their communities. Read full original post.
Read MoreTell Congress: End Global Hunger
Call on Congress to support legislation to combat hunger and create sustainable solutions to help families to provide food for themselves and their communities. Read full original post.
Read MoreTell the U.N.: The rapes must stop now!
Sign the petition below and demand the U.N. Security Council appoint a special representative who can help hold countries accountable for stopping repeated gender-based violence and assist survivors of rape and assault. Read full original post.
Read MoreTell Congress: End Global Hunger
Call on Congress to support legislation to combat hunger and create sustainable solutions to help families to provide food for themselves and their communities. Read full original post.
Read MoreStop Repeated Gender-Based Violence
Sign the petition below and demand the U.N. Security Council appoint a Special Representative who can help hold countries accountable for stopping repeated gender-based violence and assist survivors of rape and assault. Read full original post.
Read MoreGlobal Food Security for 2009
Support President Obama’s call for Congress to double U.S. support for food security programs. Read full original post.
Read MoreWomen Are Key to Fighting Poverty
Tell your legislator: Women are key to fighting poverty! Read full original post.
Read MoreSupport Global Food Security Act
Support President Obama’s call for Congress to double U.S. support for food security programs. Read full original post.
Read MoreBrownback co-sponsoring Global Food Security Act (S. 384)
Brownback co-sponsoring Global Food Security Act (S. 384) Read full original post.
Read MoreThe Human Face of Climate Change
The Human Face of Climate Change Read full original post.
Read MoreGender Oppression and Discrimination Facts
The Facts Worldwide True models of gender equality do not exist. Given the lamentable international picture, no one who studies the gender gap claims that any country in the world has yet achieved this model. – www.weforum.org At least one out of every three women in the world has been raped, beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise violently abused in …
Read MoreHow can our attempts to help a hurting person actually hurt them?
Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit about Paul’s admonition to the Galatians and how it relates to those of us who are reaching out to addicts and other people in need.
“Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.” (Gal. 6:1 NIV)
This passage and the verses that follow have some important principles to keep in mind as we seek to be people helpers and not “enablers”.
Read MoreLove Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation With the Gay Community
Andrew Marin’s life changed forever when his three best friends came out to him in three consecutive months. Suddenly he was confronted with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community (GLBT) firsthand. And he was compelled to understand how he could reconcile his friends to his faith.
In an attempt to answer that question, he and his wife relocated to Boystown, a predominantly GLBT community in Chicago. And from his experience and wrestling has come his book, Love Is an Orientation, a work which elevates the conversation between Christianity and the GLBT community, moving the focus from genetics to gospel, where it really belongs.
Why are so many people who are gay wary of people who are Christians? Do GLBT people need to change who they are?
Read MoreGlobal Report on Trafficking in Persons
On 12 February 2009, UNODC launched the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. Based on data gathered from 155 countries, it offers the first global assessment of the scope of human trafficking and what is being done to fight it. It includes: an overview of trafficking patterns; legal steps taken in response; and country-specific information on reported cases of trafficking …
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