page_title: Rusudan Gotsiridze
hierarchical_section_title: Rusudan Gotsiridze
caption_attribution_description: First Lady Michelle Obama and Deputy Secretary Heather Higginbottom pose for a photo with 2014 International Women of Courage Awardee Rusudan Gotsiridze, Bishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, at the 2014 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2014. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
context_page_description: Rusudan Gotsiridze is a bishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia and a women's rights activist. She was the first female Baptist bishop in Georgia. She has advocated against gender violence and for women's equality, and created interfaith dialogues to support religious minorities. She was also one of the first members of the religious community in Georgia to publicly support the rights of the LGBT community. She also spoke at the 6th United Nations Forum on Minority Issues about religious minorities in Georgia.
  She received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.
context_section_description: Rusudan Gotsiridze (Georgian: რუსუდან გოცირიძე; born 8 February 1975, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union) is a bishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia and a women's rights activist. She was the first female Baptist bishop in Georgia. She has advocated against gender violence and for women's equality, and created interfaith dialogues to support religious minorities. She was also one of the first members of the religious community in Georgia to publicly support the rights of the LGBT community. She also spoke at the 6th United Nations Forum on Minority Issues about religious minorities in Georgia.
  She received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.
caption: Michelle Obama, Rusudan Gotsiridze and Heather Higginbottom
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