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Top African cardinal says pope’s anti-abuse rules should be ‘extended’
- Church in Africa
- Sep 29, 2019
Africa’s top prelate has hit back against the notion that clerical sexual abuse is a purely western problem, saying it happens on his home turf too, though he also pressed for Pope Francis’s newly minted reporting mechanism to be broadened to cover local issues.
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New head of Polish Church’s child protection office wants focus on victims
- Church in Europe
- Sep 21, 2019
Although the Church in Poland has had procedures for preventing child abuse for years, these rules need to “flow through the Church’s veins,” according to the bishops’ new child protection point man.
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Australian Catholic Church releases standards for child protection
- Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania
- Jun 3, 2019
The Australian Catholic Church has released its National Catholic Safeguarding Standards, more than 18 months after they were recommended by the country’s landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, in the latest chapter in the overhaul of how the Church responds to clergy sexual abuse.
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Children need champions in Congress
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jun 2, 2019
Since children don’t vote, they often need adults to champion their cause.
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Sicilian priest wages decade-long crusade against ‘pedophilia pride’
- Vatican
- Apr 26, 2019
For the past two decades, a priest from Southern Italy has attempted to raise awareness of the global scope of pedophilia in the Church and in the world.
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New report documents ‘complicit silence’ on child sex abuse
- Church in Europe
- Mar 22, 2019
An Italian non-profit led by a Catholic priest has presented its yearly report on online child protection, calling for a global engagement on this global tragedy.
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