Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!

3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
Give Thanks. There is more to this prayer here

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Wednesday 19 October 2016

Argentine Activists Call for Strike over Rape, Murder of Teen Girl

By Andrew V. Pestano  UPI


On Wednesday, Argentinian activists have called for women to walk out of work for an hour and to wear black on Wednesday in protest over the rape and murder of Lucia Perez, a 16-year-old girl. In July 2015, about 200,000 people protested in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against "femicide" and domestic violence directed toward women. File Photo by Jerry Nelson/Flickr

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Argentine activists have called for women to walk out of work for an hour and to wear black on Wednesday in protest over the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.

Lucia Perez died in early October in Argentina's city of Mar del Plata. Two men who left her at a hospital said she overdosed on drugs but upon analysis doctors found evidence of extreme sexual violence, Clarín reported.

Argentine prosecutors said officials arrested three men over Lucia's death, which was caused by cardiac arrest after being assaulted with a foreign object. She was drugged with marijuana and cocaine prior to the rape, authorities added.

"This Wednesday, go black for all our companions murdered, kidnapped, raped and abused," the Rebelión Feminista group said in a statement.

Wednesday's protest has been called "Miercoles Negro" -- Black Wednesday in Spanish.

In July, Argentine President Mauricio Macri announced a plan to fight against "femicide" and domestic abuse directed toward women through the establishment of a network of women's refuges.

Femicide is a gender hate-crime term describing the violent and deliberate killing of a woman. Macri's plan, which will increase funds for the electronic tracking of men known to violently target women, will begin next year.

Argentina adopted a law in 2012 establishing tough punishments for femicide perpetrators, as have many other Latin American countries facing similar problems, but women's rights groups believe it is not enough. In 2015 in Argentina, 235 women were killed in incidents related to gender violence.


Last year, more than 200,000 people protested against violence toward women in Buenos Aires. Protests were also held in more than 80 cities across Argentina, as well as in neighboring Chile and Uruguay.

The protests were organized after a 14-year-old girl was beaten to death by her boyfriend because she was pregnant. In an earlier case the same year, a woman was killed by her estranged husband after she asked for a divorce. She was a kindergarten teacher and her husband slit her throat in front of her classroom.

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