The 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that begins on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Under the theme which was launched in 2019, “From Our House to Yours: 16 Days against Sexual and Gender Based Violence“, the staff of the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva will be praying and reflecting each day on the impact of sexual and gender-based violence in our contexts of work and ministry. We invite everyone to pray with us each day and will share some of our reflections on WCC’s social media.
This is also an opportunity to emphasize the link between oikos (house) and oikoumene (the whole inhabited world. As Philip Potter, former World Council of Churches general secretary, stated, “The ecumenical movement (the oikoumene) is the means by which the churches that form the house, the oikos of God, are seeking to live and witness before all peoples.”
Follow our reflections on social media and join in the #16Days #FromOurHouseToYours.
Links:
Just Community of Women and Men
Thursdays in Black
Please go here to access the prayers for the 16 Days of Activism