Bishop Mary Ann Swenson, vice-moderator of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, recalls the testimony by Ms Gil Won-Ok, a surviving victim of the Japanese military sexual slavery during World War II, who spoke to the WCC Central Committee about the violence she experienced as a teenager. "You would think that after 60 years we would have ended violence against women - and yet it continues!" says Bishop Swenson.

Mary Ann Swenson was elected to the episcopacy of the United Methodist Church by the 1992 Western Jurisdictional Conference. She now serves as president of the church's General Commission on Christian Unity and Inter-religious Concerns (GCCUIC). Previously, she also served as president of both the Board of Directors of the Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Center, and on the Board of Directors of the North Central Washington AIDS Coalition from 1989 to 1992.

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