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Women fault church's silence on gender-based violence

Cases of GBV are on the rise in Kenya. [iStockphoto]

The church should boldly speak out against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and rising killings of women in Kenya and other parts of Africa, an assembly of women meeting in Mombasa has said.

A conference of Women of Love and Prayer (Wolap) an association that brings together women leaders in evangelical churches from across Africa heard that the majority of women who throng churches were GBV victims, suffering in silence fearing stigma or reprisal from the perpetrators of the crimes.

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