“For just as a body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — Jews or Greeks, slaves or free — and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less part of the body.” 1 Corinthians 12:12-15
Fact Sheet from 16 Days of Activism Toolkit
· About 17 % of Zambian girls aged 15 to 19 are married, compared to only 1 % of boys of the same age group.
· 32 % of Kenyan young women aged 18 to 24 and 18 % of their male counterparts reported experiencing sexual violence before age 18.
[ERD and the Anglican Communion are working with African leaders to teach and inform about better actions such as the 2020 webinars during the 16 Days of Activism] including included the Most Rev. Thabo Cecil Makgoba, archbishop of Cape Town and metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, who encouraged people of faith to make fighting violence against women and girls within the church part of the liturgy: “If it is read, if it is sung, if it is prayed, it is believed.”