On April 14, 276 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped to be sold as "wives" by Boko Haram . This story was picked up by the media, setting off a flood of tweets with the hashtag #BringBackOur Girls. Politicians, celebrities, and the average person on the street called for the Nigerian government as well as the US to do something. To date, 219 girls are still missing . Unfortunately this is only one horrifying example of the global violence against women and girls. According to the statistics more girls have been killed in the last 50 years because they were girls than men killed in all the battles of the 20th century. This is rightly called gendercide because the victims are targeted based on gender alone. 1 As Christians, sin should be no surprise. Mankind has been corrupted at the root and chooses evil over good since the fall. But the sexual assault, sex trafficking, domestic violence, forced abortion, infanticide of girl babies, honor killings, rape as a weapon of w...