<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/westmont-news/talk-probes-faith-gender-based-violence.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>10/13/2015</pubDate><title>Talk Probes Faith, Gender-Based Violence</title><excerpt>Meredith Whitnah, assistant professor of sociology, examines how faith-based NGOs in South Africa that had resisted apartheid have addressed gender-based violence in a lecture Monday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. in Westmont’s Hieronymus Lounge at Kerrwood Hall. The Gender Studies Lecture, “Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Religious Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa,” is free and open to the public.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2015/10/Whitnah-Meredith-15-5-505x758.jpg" alt="Dr. Meredith Whitnah"/>
        </image><caption>Dr. Meredith Whitnah</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>