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SEOUL, South Korea — Women and girls are easy targets for religious persecution, and their plight is often compounded when shunned by their own church communities after escaping their captors, say experts on gender-based persecution.

The vulnerabilities faced by Christian women who are part of the religious minority in South Asia and African nations were the focus of a panel moderated by Emma van der Deijl, the CEO of Gender and Religious Freedom, at the World Evangelical Alliance's 14th General Assembly, held at SaRang Church last Tuesday.

Irene Kibagendi, executive director of the Pan African Christian Women Alliance, homed in on the abuses suffered by women in Nigeria, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sharing the accounts of young women that have become all

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