Benedictine Activist Joan Chittister Addresses Audiences on ‘Women & War’ in Houston & San Antonio Bookmark and Share

Posted on May 14, 2009 - 09:52 AM

Joan Chittister, provocative activist and author spoke in back to back seminars in Houston and San Antonio about the present day realities of the cost of war to women and children. Quoting UN sources, she reported to the stunned audience that fully today 90+% of war victims are women and girls. Referring to refugee camps as “rape camps,” she described the radical vulnerability that characterizes the life


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