Domestic violence

The Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Veena Bhatnagar says her ministry aims to fix the issue of violence against women and children through policies and partnerships. Six answers from the public regarding the question: “How can we eliminate domestic violence cases?” We as followers should: seek professional help go into behavioural change programmes, talk it out, serious counseling, higher penalties and harsher sentences and implement policies and put them into practice.

From a Christian perspective, only God through Jesus Christ can transform a person into having His character and the empowerment to live a life beaming with love towards one's own family and others. It is sad that in Fiji where we have a Christian majority; it is Christians who lead the statistics on domestic violence against women and children and our prisons are full of Christians believers.

We do have a Secular Government which will depend on secular humanistic solutions as the answer to domestic violence. I call on Christian churches to unite and first have all church members walking the talk through the divine transformation and empowerment made available in Jesus Christ, before sharing the same to non-Christians.

There is only one power on earth that is able to change the heart of a violent person into having a heart full of love and respect for others and having the mind of Christ.