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Annie Imbens-Fransen is a Feminist theologian. In 1986, she founded the
Foundation for Pastoral Care for Women to provide pastoral care and
counseling to sexually abused women with a religious trauma. She has
lectured and published extensively on the impact of a religious education on the lives of
women, including the books: Christianity and Incest and God in
Women’s Lives. She is the initiator and coordinator of the
URI Council for women and served as a
member of the URI Europe board and the URI Global Council.

The United Religions Initiative Global Council in March voted to endorse the Darfur Unity Statement in recognition of the continuing necessity for international intervention in the Darfur region of Sudan. Originally signed by over 100 non-governmental agencies in July of 2004, the Save Darfur Coalition’s Unity Statement remains relevant today with over two million refugees in need of aid and death toll estimates in the region now exceeding 300,000.

URI Global Support Staff member Barbara Hartford reviews John Paul
Lederach's Moral Imagination: the Art and Soul of Building Peace
, wherein he asks "How do we transcend the cycles of violence that
bewitch our human community while still living in them?"