{"id":6843,"date":"2022-02-15T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/christian-women-and-girls-minority-situations\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:46:45","slug":"christian-women-and-girls-minority-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/christian-women-and-girls-minority-situations\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian women and girls in minority situations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/a-little-known-phenomenon\/\">ACN Canada<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s about time that we start to address this little-known phenomenon,\u201d says Marie-Claude Lalonde, ACN\u2019s National Director. \u201cIn the six countries covered by the report, it is now much clearer that being part of a minority plays a direct role in the sickening violence inflicted on women. Because victims rarely report violence, either because of notoriously inactive police forces or because they keep quiet for fear of reprisals, it is extremely difficult to document this very real phenomenon.\u201d &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe report includes cases reported to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and other international agencies, as well as testimonies from women from six countries: Nigeria, Mozambique, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt. \u201cFor example, despite the trauma she has endured, Maira Shabhaz signed the foreword to this document. It takes courage and sheer determination, as she and her family still have to hide from the death threats she receives,\u201d says Lalonde. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn April 2020, at the age of 14, the Pakistani girl was abducted, tortured and raped. \u201cEverything was recorded and a film was made of it,\u201d she writes in the foreword. \u201cI was blackmailed. I was forced to sign a certificate showing that I had converted and married my kidnapper. I was told that if I refused, my family would be killed.\u201d She managed to escape from her kidnapper in August 2020. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cThis is just one of many examples,\u201d says Lalonde, \u201cand the fact that she is a member of the Christian minority is one of the elements that explains what happened to her and how her case was handled by the authorities.\u201d &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDuring the video conference on March 8th, one of the co-authors of the report, John Pontifex, Head of Press and Information for ACN UK, will speak about what led to the release of the report. &nbsp;<br \/>\nRegister now! &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo conference Hear Her Cries, <strong>March 8, 2022, 7 p.m.&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2014Register now through the Eventbrite platform:&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/inscription-entendez-ses-pleurs-262577846407?aff=erelpanelorg\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/inscription-entendez-ses-pleurs-262577846407?aff=erelpanelorg. &nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ACN Canada \u201cIt\u2019s about time that we start to address this little-known phenomenon,\u201d says Marie-Claude Lalonde, ACN\u2019s National Director.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","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\/6843","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=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}