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Category - Gender

  • 3 Mar 2009
    Women of faith advocate for equality at United Nations hearing

    Around one in ten women attending the 53rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is part of Ecumenical Women, an international coalition of churches and Christian organizations.

  • 27 Dec 2008
    Peace, goodwill and gender politics

    The Christmas message is one of deliveerance from fear, says Giles Fraser. But the approach the Pope has taken to 'human ecology' heads perilously in the other direction.

  • 8 Aug 2008
    Aid Agency says church must lead way in addressing gender injustice

    Gender inequalities which fuel women's vulnerability to HIV must be addressed by the church, aid agency Tearfund has said as the 17th International AIDS conference in Mexico draws to a close today.

  • 26 Dec 2007
    Central American Anabaptist Women Theologians tackle domestic violence

    Domestic violence and what the church needs to do to respond to this problem topped the agenda for the recent second gathering of Central American Anabaptist Women Theologians.

  • 22 Oct 2007
    Women - equal but different?

    The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has set out his view of women as 'equal but different'. Savi Hensman traces the patriarchal assumptions behind this position, and questions its claims to biblical authority.

  • 3 Aug 2007
    Religious leaders urged to combat gender-based violence in Africa

    African religious leaders have heard that gender-based violence is increasingly becoming a weapon of war in the continent's trouble spots, with some saying sacred scriptures are being used to justify violence in general.

  • 4 Jun 2007
    Father knows best?

    One of the many important life-issues raised by traditional Christian language about God is that of gender and paternity - human and divine.

  • 31 Oct 2006
    Sex and Gender

    Ekklesia has often been asked to comment on issues of homosexuality in the Church of England. Ekklesia has sponsored a number of events on homosexuality and homophobia.