{"id":6735,"date":"2021-11-30T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/solidarity-church-against-violence-against-women\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T15:03:18","slug":"solidarity-church-against-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/solidarity-church-against-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"In solidarity: the Church against violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Louise Royer, Director of the Social Action Ministry Office<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe pastoral letter of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace on human trafficking was previously announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diocesemontreal.org\/en\/news-and-info\/latest-news\/canadian-bishops-invite-residential-school-survivors-indigenous-elders\" target=\"_blank\">here:<\/a><em> For Freedom Christ has Set us Free: Pastoral Letter on Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Canada.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;The letter draws attention to the inherently exploitative and abusive nature of the purchase of sex and insists that in order to protect the vulnerable, this practice must continue to be criminalized: \u201cTreating sex as \u2018work\u2019 masks the physical, psychological and sexual violence inflicted on the prostituted person. Prostitution involves selling something that by its nature cannot be bought or sold and is therefore inherently exploitative.\u201d The letter is the joint result of the Commission&#8217;s work monitoring the issue of human trafficking in Canada and abroad and of the contributions of the Commission\u2019s respective Chairpersons over the years and in the course of numerous international meetings, including those with the <a href=\"http:\/\/santamartagroup.com\/?utm_source=Cyberimpact&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Diocese-de-Gaspe---Infolettre-26-novembre-2021\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Marta Group<\/a> in Rome.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Quebec, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathii.org\/?utm_source=Cyberimpact&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Diocese-de-Gaspe---Infolettre-26-novembre-2021\" target=\"_blank\">CATHII<\/a> (Comit\u00e9 d&#8217;action contre la traite humaine interne et internationale), of which the R\u00e9seau des r\u00e9pondantes \u00e0 la condition des femmes is a member, has been combating human trafficking for sexual exploitation or forced labour since 2004. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathii.org\/sites\/www.cathii.org\/files\/Campagne%20de%20signatures%20CATHII%20nov21.pdf?utm_source=Cyberimpact&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Diocese-de-Gaspe---Infolettre-26-novembre-2021\" target=\"_blank\">petition<\/a> (in French only) concerning human trafficking in Quebec is currently available for signing.<br \/>\nSource: Eileen Perry, head of communications and the status of women &#8211; Diocese of Gasp\u00e9<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDecember 6 is a painful reminder of the femicide at the Polytechnique in 1989. Let&#8217;s stand in solidarity with <a href=\"https:\/\/polysesouvient.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">PolyRemembers <\/a>and its campaign for better gun control in Canada.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn the international front, Aid to the Church in Need<a href=\"https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/aid-to-the-church-in-need-launches-hear-her-cries-a-report-on-women-and-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\"> announced on November 24 <\/a>a new report on the abduction, forced conversion and sexual victimization of Christian women and girls. &nbsp;<br \/>\nThere have also been instances of violence against women within the Church. The diocese has an efficient and confidential process for filing complaints of abuse: (514) PLAINTE or (514) 752 4683; plainte@ombudsman-ecm.com&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Louise Royer, Director of the Social Action Ministry Office The pastoral letter of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}