Archdiocese of Agana Archives

Guam clergy sex abuse survivors may receive payments in 2020

Associated Press, Church in Oceania
Oct 21, 2019

Officials say Guam’s clergy sex abuse survivors could begin receiving compensation from the Catholic Archdiocese of Agana in the first half of 2020.

Survivors allege clergy sex abuse on Catholic island of Guam

Associated Press, Church in Oceania
Aug 9, 2019

While the U.S. Catholic Church has been roiled by the child sexual abuse scandal for nearly two decades, Guam’s faithful are still reckoning with new revelations from survivors long shamed into silence by men who claimed divine authority.

Guam clergy sex abuse victims tell their stories

Associated Press, Church in Oceania
Aug 8, 2019

Sex abuse victims in Guam are suing the Catholic Church.

Guam’s Catholics reckon with decades of ‘horrific’ sex abuse

Associated Press, Church in Oceania
Aug 8, 2019

For decades in Guam, Archbishop Anthony Apuron oversaw a culture of impunity where abusers went unpunished. Long after it erupted into scandal on the mainland, clergy sexual abuse remained a secret on Guam. On this island where four out of five people are Catholic, the abusers held the power.

Guam Catholic group protests recruitment of abortion doctors

Associated Press, Church in Oceania
Jun 17, 2019

A Catholic group has protested the governor of Guam’s plan to recruit abortion providers to the U.S. territory where no doctors are currently willing to terminate pregnancies.

Archbishop says “new journey” for Guam after predecessor convicted of sex abuse

Church in the US
Mar 19, 2018

Archbishop Michael Byrnes said on Monday the Church in Guam is entering a new chapter after the guilty verdict handed down by the Vatican in the sexual abuse case against Archbishop Anthony Apuron.