Daily Links, March 8: International Women's Day!

Happy International Women's Day [1]! It's kind of a big deal [2] around the world, even if not so much in the U.S. The theme of this year's celebration is "Empower Rural Women - End Hunger and Poverty." Catholic Relief Services takes a look at some stories of strength [3] from women across the world.

Here's an awesome video [4] that explores the portrayal of women in Western art over the last 500 years.

Here's a less awesome story from the New York Times about the effects of cutting funding for women's health [5] in Texas.

NETWORK is encouraging support of S.1925, or the "Violence Against Women Act," [6] which "creates and supports comprehensive, effective, and cost saving responses to the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking."

And for a few news items not specifically related to women:

John Gehring from Faith in Public Life points out where there are some real wars on religion [7] happening.

Bryan Cones blogs about [8] a conflict between ideology and service to those in need.

CARA crunches some numbers [9] to take a look at how Catholic Republicans have been voting in the primaries so far.

And, it's Tortilla Jesus! [10]