{"id":3085,"date":"2021-11-21T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2021-11-21T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:04:59","slug":"eliminating-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/11\/21\/eliminating-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating violence."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 25th will be the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/ending-violence-against-women-day\" target=\"_blank\"> international day for eliminating violence against women<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God of love,<br>we pray for an end<br>to violence against women.<br>May the end come soon.<br>May the secret violence,<br>happening behind the closed doors<br>of our friends, family and neighbours,<br>of workmates and fellow churchgoers,<br>&#8230; may the violence end.<br>We pray for all women who feel<br>desperately alone and afraid,<br>with seemingly no-one to protect them<br>from those who are violent towards them&#8230;<br>&#8230;may they find shelter and safety.<br>We pray that all public places<br>may become safe places.<br>We pray that you will protect women<br>from violent and biased judicial systems.<br>We pray that you will strengthen<br>everyone who works to keep women safe.<br>And if all this sounds wildly optimistic,<br>because violence runs deep<br>in the human soul,<br>God bring a new beginning we pray.<br>May the strong learn peace.<br>And may peaceful people learn<br>to be strong and to stand up.<br>In your mercy, God,<br>hear our prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25th will be the international day for eliminating violence against women&#8230; God of love,we pray for an endto violence against women.May the end come soon.May the secret violence,happening behind the closed doorsof our friends, family and neighbours,of workmates and fellow churchgoers,&#8230; may the violence end.We pray for all women who feeldesperately alone and afraid,with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/11\/21\/eliminating-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eliminating violence.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}