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Spokane Salon Partners With Nonprofit to Train Stylists on Recognizing Abuse

Salon professionals often develop close relationships with clients, but many lack training on how to respond when those clients reveal they're experiencing abuse.
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Child abuse reporting bill faces Catholic opposition in Washington

Washington lawmakers push bills requiring clergy to report child abuse, sparking fierce debate over confession privacy. Catholic bishops vow to protect confessional despite abuse reporting mandate.
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The Body Of Christ Is Betrayed: Reflections On Sexual Abuse In The SBC

The church is the body of Christ. The body is hiding— broken, bleeding, bruised and scarred. Someone who promised to care and feed her ate her instead.
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Prayer for abusers, but pray for victims too

I recently attended a service at a church where they openly prayed for abusers and their healing but mentioned nothing of their victims.
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Where’s the mission field?

I’d never witnessed a beating. To this day I shudder when I remember it. I had been reading in my car before a doctor’s appointment and happened to notice a young woman leaving the hospital.

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Spokane workshop to focus on healing from spiritual abuse

Karen Wanjico had no choice.

Turn away from her mother like the rest of the congregation, or be exterminated by God at Armageddon — which could come any moment — with no hope of resurrection.

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Doctors warn against ‘reproductive coercion’

While researchers don’t know exactly how common it is, the nation’s leading group of obstetricians and gynecologists says women should be screened for ‘reproductive coercion.’

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