Decline of Icelandic Church: Scandals And Controversy Lead To Mass Exodus

Published November 8, 2019 The number of Icelanders who trust the National Church has decreased by half since the turn of the century. Only one third of the nation now trusts the Church, according to a Gallup poll published on October 28. In a nation without a separation of Church and State, it’s hard to […]

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Dutch Catholic church rocked with sex abuse cover-up scandal

by French Press Agency – AFP The Hague Sep 16, 2018 – 12:00 am GMT+3 | AP Photo More than half of the Netherlands’ senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual assault of children between 1945 and 2010, a press report claimed Saturday, further engulfing the Catholic Church in a global abuse scandal. Over […]

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Germany: Catholic Church child abuse scandal widens

Nuns sold orphaned children to priests, businessmen to serve as sex slaves, new confidential report reveals Ayhan Simsek   | 04.02.2021 COLOGNE, Germany  Germany’s Catholic Church covered up the sexual abuse of orphaned children for decades, a new confidential report has revealed. Nuns in the western city of Speyer sold orphaned children to priests and […]

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Strange and secret scandals of the Church

Peter Costello August 17, 2017 The Nuns of Saint’ Ambrogio: The True Story of a Covent Scandal By Hubert Wolf (Oxford University Press, £20.00) When the Church these days is besieged by scandal many seem to think that in previous generations things were different. They were certainly different, but in the sense of being far […]

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Fraud Thriving In U.S. Churches, But You Wouldn’t Know It

Walter PavloContributorPersonal FinanceI write and consult on federal criminal law and criminal justice. The Washington Post’sinvestigation on fraud into nonprofit organizations revealed that incidents are either not reported at all or reported but not directed to authorities … bad news, like “theft,” does not sit well with contributors. When I looked at the list of nonprofit organizations […]

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Losing Faith: The Church Sex Abuse Scandal

Here is a list of the stories from our ongoing series about claims of abuse by Catholic clergy and how the Archdiocese of New Orleans has handled them. Author: WWL Staff Published: 9:36 AM CDT August 13, 2020 Updated: 10:30 AM CST January 3, 2022 NEW ORLEANS — Eyewitness Investigator David Hammer has been following […]

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Hundreds Accuse Independent Baptist Pastors of Abuse

Investigation by Fort Worth Star-Telegram finds 400 allegations against 168 leaders spanning almost 200 churches and institutions. Kate Shellnutt|December 12, 2018 09:54 AM Image: Andrew Holzschuh / Lightstock Hundreds of women and men have accused leaders of independent fundamental Baptist churches of sexual misconduct in a major investigative report published last weekend by the Fort […]

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Scandals and power struggles in the Russian Church, the Patriarch suspends two bishops

by Vladimir Rozanskij Kirill has also decided to intervene to resolve a sexual harassment scandal involving two young bishops. However, many accuse the patriarch of “abuse of power”, and of having waited for the pandemic crisis to operate a “settlement of accounts” within the hierarchy. Moscow (AsiaNews) – The pandemic in Russia seems to have […]

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Report finds 216,000 children have been sexually abused by French Catholic Church clergy since 1950

Posted Tue 5 Oct 2021 at 11:21amTuesday 5 Oct 2021 at 11:21am, updated Tue 5 Oct 2021 at 11:33amTuesday 5 Oct 2021 at 11:33am Share this article An investigation into sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church has found an estimated 216,000 children have been victims of abuse by the clergy since 1950. Key points: The report […]

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Zambia – Of sexual scandals in the Church

September 23, 2021 Web Editor GENDER FOCUS with EMELDA MWITWACLAIMS of ‘sexual abuse’ of women in the Church by clergymen are not new. Oftentimes, stories are told about how some men of God, who, instead of promoting morality in society, have a tendency of sleeping around with women and girls in the Church.And in a […]

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