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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Domestic Violence</title>
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		<title>Muslim men &#8216;think they have God-given right to beat wives&#8217;, claims female Muslim medic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22911"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/domestic-violence.jpg" alt="domestic violence" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="domestic violence"></a> Fatima Husain, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, has told how she sees <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/i07.html">Muslim</a> women coming for treatment with strangle marks around their necks and bruises on their pregnant bumps.
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She also claimed that problems develop because many followers of Islam are fearful of discussing sex, contraception and infertility.]]></description>
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		<title>Book reveals domestic violence behind the doors of the parsonage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22901"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/suffered-in-silence.jpg" alt="Domestic Violence" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Domestic Violence"></a> A California couple has broken the silence about the explosion of <a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/category/domestic-violence">domestic violence</a> that hides behind the “protected” doors of the parsonage and the Christian home.</strong> 
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Virginia and Robert Coombs have released “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/160477990X/ref=nosim/religionnewsblog-20">We Suffered in Silence</a>,” which includes the courageous true story penned by deceased author Velva B. Holt, Virginia’s mother, about the devastating abuse she suffered while she was a pastor’s wife and the refusal of Church leaders to acknowledge the problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Abused Muslim Women in U.S. Gain Advocates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domestic violence among Muslims has long straddled a blurry line between culture and religion, but now scattered organizations founded by Muslim American women are creating a movement to define it as an unacceptable cultural practice. The problem occurs among American Muslims at the same rate as other groups, activists say, but is even more sensitive because raising the issue is considered an attack on the faith.]]></description>
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		<title>Juanity Bynum: Public Lesson on Domestic Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19406/juanita-bynum-24</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative critics among the evangelical clergy have accused Juanit Bynum of exploiting the attack for publicity, calling her “loud,” “angry,” “aggressive” and “out of control,” while a group of black and Hispanic churches has demanded Thomas Weeks’s resignation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Juanita Bynum&#8217;s case highlights domestic violence in faith communities</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19371/juanita-bynum-23</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high-profile case involving Bynum and her husband, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks, experts say, underscores that domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence, is no respecter of gender, social-economic status or even religious faith.]]></description>
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		<title>Experts: Black church can better address domestic violence</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19324/domestic-violence-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, the black church has been the rock of the black community, a place of refuge where important issues are addressed. But domestic violence has long been left off the agenda, ignored in a largely patriarchal system, even justified by scripture.]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelist says she&#8217;ll take on role of anti-violence advocate</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19304/juanita-bynum-19</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She aired her dirty laundry on a national stage, first as a victim of divorce and dead-end affairs and now as a victim of domestic violence. National Pentecostal evangelist Juanita Bynum, 48, went public with her pain Tuesday, sharing yet another chapter in her tumultuous life story.]]></description>
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		<title>TD Jakes: Domestic abuse is unholy</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19259/domestic-abuse-is-unholy</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However pained we all may be, perhaps this is a teaching opportunity to awaken us to the fact that thousands of women are beaten and many killed by someone who says they love them.]]></description>
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		<title>Juanita Bynum and Thomas Weeks: A message in the mayhem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estimates are that anywhere from 950,000 to 3 million women are physically abused each day in America by so-called intimate partners.]]></description>
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		<title>For televangelist Juanita Bynum and other women, domestic violence knows no limits</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19137/domestic-violence-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domestic abuse is no respecter of persons, experts say. But if Juanita Bynum -- a woman who claims to hear from God and spread the messages to others -- is beaten by her husband, how can the average person recognize an abuser?]]></description>
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