Society of the Sacred Heart Society of the Sacred Heart The Society of the Sacred Heart (Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is an international Roman Catholic religious congregation for women established in France by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800. Members use the suffix "RSCJ" which represents "Religieuses du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus" or "Religiosa Sanctissimi Cordis Jesu" or "Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus". It has a presence in 41 countries. They should not be confused with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM), another teaching order of sisters. Madeleine Sophie Barat founded the Society of the Sacred Heart in
Femicide the goals of many of these authors is to make femicide a separate category. In 2013, COST set up Action IS-1206 entitled "Femicide across Europe". The manifestations of femicide vary greatly. Using Diana Russell's definition, femicide includes intimate partner femicide, lesbicide, racial femicide, serial femicide, mass femicide, honor killing related femicide, dowry and more. Any act of sexual terrorism that results in death is considered a femicide. This includes forms of covert femicide as well, such as criminalization of abortion that leads to death from unsafe abortions, or death as a result of female genital mutilation. One of the most