Asking women to forgive the church for the times when it failed or moved too slowly to address their plight, Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Alleyne said yesterday that the church needs to do more to address the scourge of domestic violence and he admonished men not to misuse the scriptures as a justification of violence towards women.
The Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Roman Catholic Church in collaboration with Help and Shelter is hosting a four-day domestic violence prevention workshop spread over two weekends – yesterday and today and on March 24 and 25 at the St Paul’s Retreat Centre, Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara.
Bishop Alleyne in opening remarks at the workshop yesterday, said, “The church rests on the evidence that a very high percentage of victims are women. From those women who have suffered the
