Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Sexual abuse

Dec. 13, 2010 issue

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  Photo by Suzanne Lind/MCC

  Congolese women rally against mass rapes in war

  In solidarity with thousands of women who have been sexually assaulted in Congo, five Mennonite Congolese women joined an international rally of women calling for peace, demilitarization and the end of violence against women.

  This global group of women gathered Oct. 17 for the World March of Women in Bukavu, the capital of Congo’s South Kivu province, an area in eastern Congo where combatants rape women in their quest to control land rich in valuable minerals.

Nov. 1, 2010 issue

• Reconnecting after years of isolation in Bolivia

  Despite tragic stories of sexual assault, alcoholism and drug use among Old Colony Mennonite communities in Bolivia, many good things are happening there that offer hope for a better future.

May 17, 2010 issue

• Bolivia Old Colony women get support through cookbook

  Helen Funk had been broadcasting a radio program in Low German for several years when she decided to write a cookbook in the language as well.

April 19, 2010 issue

• Clergy sexual abuse a tragedy for all

  One of the life lessons that has stuck with me most I learned when I was 6. My father and I were driving in the car and listening to the radio in Washington, D.C., where I was born and raised.

• Building ‘dove’s nests’ to stop abuse

  After Julie Prey-Harbaugh was abused by a youth pastor, she healed by telling her story.

Feb. 15, 2010 issue

• Service laments rapes in Bolivia

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Aganetha, 27, a woman with learning disabilities, kept getting “water in my eyes” as her brother told a journalist about the rapes of his mother, sister and wife.

Feb. 1, 2010 issue

• Prayer service planned for Bolivia rape survivors

  WINNIPEG, Man. — An inter-Mennonite group of volunteers will sponsor a prayer and lament service for the women and girls who have been victims of sexual assaults and abuse in Manitoba Colony, Bolivia.

Jan. 11, 2010 issue

• Response tentative to rapes in Bolivia

  The story of Mennonite men drugging and raping women on Old Colony Mennonite settlements in Bolivia hit the news last summer, from local Spanish papers to The Guardian Weekly in the United Kingdom.

Jan. 4, 2010 issue

• Women: face of HIV/AIDS

  The toll on women and girls presents Africa and the world with a practical and moral challenge, which places gender at the centre of the human condition. The practice of ignoring gender analysis has turned out to be lethal.

Oct. 5, 2009 issue

• Bolivian colonist, accused of rape, dies

  An Old Colony Mennonite man in Bolivia accused of rape died Sept. 16 after being punished.

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