The head of the Portuguese Bishops Conference, Bishop Jose Ornelas, gestures during a news conference to comment on the report released hours earlier by the Independent Committee for the Study […]
Germany: Over 1,400 youths accuse Catholic religious orders of sexual abuse Source: DW As the German Catholic Church seeks to acknowledge decades of sexual abuse perpetuated and covered up by […]
Pope Francis waves to followers on his way to the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press) By Nicole Winfield and Eva Vergara | AP January 15 […]
Pope Francis protects pedophile priest from prosecution: Vatican uses diplomatic immunity to shield priest from child porn charges. According to multiple reports, a high-ranking priest working in the Vatican’s embassy in Washington was caught with child pornography, including images of pre-pubescent children. However, after U.S. prosecutors indicated they were ready to charge the pedophile […]
Source: Newsweek Mint-colored city buses and sherbet mid-rise apartment complexes with undulating facades. Women in polka-dot bikinis and men in wide-lapelled shirts unbuttoned halfway down their chests. Postcard-perfect white sand […]
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholic clergy have a “moral and ethical responsibility” to report sexual abuse, the cardinal tasked with reforming the Vatican’s approach to sexual crimes said after criticism of the Holy See. Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley sought to reaffirm the church’s position on reporting abuse in his role as head of […]
Source: World Religion News Newly appointed bishops are being instructed by the Catholic Church that they are not obligated to report any accusation related to clerical child abuse. The latest notification […]
Source: Religion New Service By Boz Tchividjian A few months ago, I had the opportunity to connect with an amazing woman after she stepped forward to share about being re-traumatized by her former church after reporting being sexually abused as a minor. What amazed me about Natalie Greenfield is that […]
Guardian: Urgent action is needed to identify and prevent child abuse according to a major new study that suggests only one in eight victims in England comes to the attention of authorities. About 50,000 cases of sexual abuse were recorded by police and local authorities in the two years to […]
theguardian — Kristy Bamu, who was 15 when he was tortured and drowned on Christmas Day 2010 because a relative believed he was a witch. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA More cases of ritual child abuse linked to belief in witchcraft are being reported, the police said. The Metropolitan police has received 27 allegations […]
theguardian: Jonathan Freedland. As an ex-pope, Benedict will no longer enjoy the sovereign immunity available to heads of state. A prosecution is possible – but only in theory. Who would hand him over? Certainly not the Italian authorities. For all that, despite his age and the reverence of the office […]
Daily Times: Ayesha Asghar. The survivor is a Bheel, not just Hindu but also a scheduled caste one. The rape of children from scheduled castes is, unfortunately, very common in Sindh The survivor is a student of Grade I, in the district of Umerkot in Sindh. She is much younger […]
Utah » Attorney General-elect John Swallow says he’ll uphold law but won’t actively enforce it. By lindsay whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Dec 15 2012 Set to take […]
By Sarah Hoye, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) – It’s been four weeks since the beginning of the trial of the highest ranking U.S. Catholic Church leader charged with covering up the crimes of priests against children. The main issue is not whether sex abuse occurred, as defense attorneys have pointed out, […]
Date: February 4, 2012 (Mississauga) On the blessed day of Eid Milad un Nabi (the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him), the thirty four Imams and the Islamic […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]