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Mar 8, 2022 · Women and girls also face persecution from family and community in the name of religion—including forced marriages and conversions, sexual and domestic violence and abuse, enforced dress codes...
Mar 6, 2020 · Open Doors’ research into gender-specific religious persecution finds little to celebrate and much to alarm us. It exposes the high level of persecution faced by Christian women, in many societies in which Christianity is a minority faith.
May 31, 2022 · While Christian men experience persecution that is typically visible, severe and focused, Christian women experience persecution that is hidden, violent and complex. According to the report, there are three key areas that make the persecution of Christian women distinctive from the persecution faced by Christian men:
Mar 8, 2022 · Women face distinctive and severe forms of religious persecution—including rape, abduction, forced marriages, forced conversions and forced renunciations of faith. In Iran, government officials raided the house of human rights activist and author Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee .
Mar 3, 2020 · SANTA ANA, Calif. — Christian persecution watchdog organization Open Doors has released the 2020 Gender-Specific Religious Persecution Report, which studies global patterns of persecution...
Mar 8, 2023 · Violence against women – whether in China, Iraq, Myanmar, Africa, Afghanistan or the Americas – is a tragically familiar tool of those seeking religious dominance. Through forced birth control...
Mar 9, 2024 · Sisters of Strength: The Stories of Persecuted Women in the Middle East. 03/09/2024 Middle East (International Christian Concern) – Where religious and cultural tensions run high, Christian minorities face unique struggles in the heart of the Middle East. Amid these struggles, women bear the burden of being both believers and females in a ...
