Domestic Violence and Abuse: An Urgent Call to an Informed Pastoral Response Towards A Wholistic Healing

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dc.contributor.authorNdunda M., Urbanus
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-26T09:07:44Z
dc.date.available2019-02-26T09:07:44Z
dc.date.issued2001-02
dc.description.abstractMany Christians who today are victims of domestic violence and abuse suffer their memories or current critical situations in silence. This has been because of the lack of trust that they would be treated appropriately once in the limelight. Many of the pastoral agents do still hold to the notion that these problems are not a common occurrence, and if they do happen, it is not among their people, less expanding their knowledge on the issue and striving to address the same. They are far removed and as such, for them anything to do with domestic violence and abuse such as battering, incest, rape, sexual harassment and other forms of domestic violence and abuse happen to people unlike them. The truth is that great majorities of their flock walk in the daylight happily while in the night they have to struggle as victims and survivors with their experiences of domestic violence and abuse 'To a certain extend, our pastoral agents are ill-prepared to respond to these challenges. There is the need to know more about domestic violence and abuse in the family for unless the pastoral agents come out in the open and speak of the same, their congregations will never cultivate the trust needed to come to them and help stamp out this problem. A challenge must here be considered for the pastoral agents to attend to their own houses too. This is for the pastoral agents who themselves have been victims of domestic violence and abuse and live with these memories. The same applies to pastoral agents who are perpetrators of this violence and abuse. The church must therefore incorporate new awareness of domestic violence and abuse in every aspect of ministry and teaching. It must start now to address the issue in its particularity as a deeply rooted problem in our social, cultural and religious contexts, pastorally and individually. This essay sets out to try and address this problem hopefully offering pastoral agents some new insights on how to help reduce the occurrence of domestic violence and abuse.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/655
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectDomestic Violenceen_US
dc.subjectAbuseen_US
dc.subjectWholistic Healingen_US
dc.titleDomestic Violence and Abuse: An Urgent Call to an Informed Pastoral Response Towards A Wholistic Healingen_US
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