Presbyterian Mission Agency Rev. Dr. Marielis Barreto Archives

Rev. Dr. Marielis Barreto

Federal domestic violence legislation championed during PC(USA) panel discussion

Posted October 22nd, 2021

This week, the Washington office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) stressed the need to reauthorize federal domestic violence legislation during a panel discussion about how to eradicate gender-based violence, violence against women and domestic violence in Puerto Rico.

Frank discussions of gender-based violence in English and Spanish

Posted October 19th, 2021

There has been a lot of talk in the past year about twin pandemics and multiple pandemics, including the COVID-19 virus, extrajudicial killings of people who are Black, poverty, and other societal ills exacerbated by the circumstances of the 2020s, thus far. But one of the quietest pandemics has been gender-based violence, particularly violence against women.