Elderly Women Are Breaking the Law to Deal with Loneliness

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• https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/asia/japan-elderly-largest-womens-prison-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/world/video/japan-elderly-prison-pkg-ldn-digvid
• https://fortune.com/well/article/japan-prison-older-women-loneliness/

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• Lonely, Community, Family, Relationship, Reconciliation, Kononia, Fellowship

Elderly women in Japan are breaking the law to go to jail to deal with loneliness.

"The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.

But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here reflects the aging society outside, and the pervasive problem of loneliness that guards say is so acute for some elderly prisoners that they’d prefer to stay incarcerated."

A Gospel That Doesn't Disturb

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"A church that does not provoke, a gospel that does not disturb, a word from God that does not irritate, a word from God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is proclaimed: What kind of gospel is that?"

--Oscar Romero