Rev. Pastor. Edmundo Zenteno and SERNAM Director, Ms. Carmen Andrade
Con una convocatoria de alrededor de 400 personas, de las cuales fueron mayoritariamente hermanas, se ofreció el sábado 28 de noviembre al pueblo evangélico una reunión de carácter informativo con respecto al tema de la Violencia Intrafamiliar, todo esto a causa del curso que se ofrecerá gratuitamente a la hermandad con respecto a este mismo tema.
Esta gran jornada informativa fue encabezada por la Directora del SERNAM (Servicio Nacional de la Mujer) Sra. Carmen Andrade, Representantes de Ingenieril S.A., el candidato a diputado Osvaldo Andrade y el Rvdo. Edmundo Zenteno Céspedes, Pastor Gobernante de la Iglesia Metodista Pentecostal de Chile con Pastorado en Puente Alto, iglesia en la cual se llevó out this special meeting.
was thus around 12 pm it started this journey, which had interventions: Revd. Edmundo Zenteno Céspedes, which tube responsible for the introduction to this important current issue which tube content: "Spiritual Grounds of Domestic Violence" in which he explained that much of this problem is the lack of God in the Life the aggressor and that "the man who really loves God, loves his neighbor and even more people who belong to his family."
tube Similarly an opportunity to expose the engineering representative Pradena Ramírez Macarena SA which developed explanations of the types of domestic violence and developing the course will be held promptly.

And the last speaker was the Director of SERNAM Carmen Andrade, who rubs us the alarming statistics of women abused by their partners, it is thus that in 2000 " half of Chilean women had been assaulted "and today in 2008" 1 in 3 women "which reveals a decrease in this area but still alarming, it happens that women who live this ordeal with their partners "take about 7 years to denounce their aggressor."

As important given recent data are
* Femicides (Murders of women by their partners) in Chile and are on 51 women.
* The groups with higher rates of aggression are, in this order, women, children and the elderly.
* The 149 is the number of Carabineros de Chile especially for complaints of domestic violence.
promptly informed of schedules and the location where they will develop this important course on domestic violence.
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