Gendercide

This Month's Articles

It’s a Girl, The Three Deadliest Words. Editorial

It’s a Girl, The Three Deadliest Words.

How Will the Church Respond?

Anaya is pregnant and along with her husband, Arjun, and their entire extended family, they are hoping their latest child will be a boy. Anaya lives in a remote village of northern India where...

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Tags: gendercide, girls, justice, women

Where did all the girls go? Feature

Where did all the girls go?

Gendercide and What the Good News Has to Say About It

Around the world, families face great pressure to have a son. Sons mean honor and prosperity; daughters are a financial and social liability. Desperate families respond with desperate measures and...

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Tags: china, gendercide, girls, give her life, india, justice

From a Question to a Calling Feature

From a Question to a Calling

Our Journey to End Gendercide in India

In January 2009, my husband Brad and I were living in Chennai, India where I was working as an attorney for an international human rights organization. Throughout our previous year there, friends...

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Tags: gendercide, girls, india, justice

Tackling Gendercide and the Two-Child Policy in China Feature

Tackling Gendercide and the Two-Child Policy in China

The following is from an interview conducted with Reggie Littlejohn on May 4, 2017.

MF: Gendercide happens in many places, but you specifically focus on China. What are some of the factors that...

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Tags: china, girls, justice, one child, two child

The Ripple Effect Feature

The Ripple Effect

Understanding the Societal Consequences of Gendercide

Skipping rocks along the riverside can be a peaceful, even meditative, activity. But there’s always that one friend who wants to find the biggest boulder along the bank and heave it into the water....

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Tags: china, gendercide, india, justice, prostitution, trafficking

The Image of God Feature

The Image of God

An Inclusive Invitation

Gendercide is based on the ideology that female life is less valuable than male life—that women are somehow less human than men. However, this way of thinking should be foreign to the Christian...

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Tags: eve, gendercide, image of god, woman, women

Gendercide in India Feature

Gendercide in India

What is Making a Difference?

Introduction

Gendercide, or the elimination of daughters from society, has been occurring in India for centuries. Because of modern technology, people are now able to use sex selective abortion...

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Tags: abortion, gendercide, girls, india, justice, women

Sex Selection Feature

Sex Selection

A Story From India

It was an ordinary day like any other and I was on my way to our office on a cycle rickshaw in the morning. Midway I started to feel a sense of deep heaviness in my heart like carrying a big...

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Tags: daughters, gendercide, girls, india, sex selection, women

A Hand-out, Hand up, or Hand Across? Raising Local Resources

A Hand-out, Hand up, or Hand Across?

The saying “a hand up, not a handout,” has been popularized over the last decade. The phrase was created to move people away from the trend of giving handouts and charity in chronic poverty...

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Tags: dependency, handout, resources, sustainability

The Beginning of the End? Kingdom Kernels

The Beginning of the End?

The Launch of 24:14

After months of fighting for survival in the Battle of Britain and finally prevailing, the British people heard these fateful words from Winston Churchill. “Now this is not the end. It is not even...

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Tags: 14, 24, church-planting movements, great commission, movements, unreached people groups

Spreading Global Insight Further Reflections

Spreading Global Insight

When I interact with workers and mission leaders globally, I realize how privileged my learning experience has been here at Frontier Ventures. What an honor to learn global missiology from key...

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Tags: frontier ventures, insights