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What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.


Renita D'Silva


#indian-fiction #women-s-fiction #family

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.


Carolyn Custis James


#biblical #church #deacon #widows #women

The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in the US and UK had tried to raise awareness about the systematic abuse of human and women's rights under Saddam Hussein, the atrocities linked to the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and the impact of economic sanctions on women and families. . . . 'We wrote so many letters and we organized many events. . . . They did not want to know. They were just not interested. It was only in the run-up to the [2003] invasion that the governments started to care about the suffering of Iraqi women.


Nadje Al-Ali


#iraq #state #uk #us #women