French bishops have agreed that the church allowed for the abuse of children to become "systemic." The recognition follows the release of a shocking report last month.+
The French Catholic Church bears "institutional responsibility" for the thousands of child abuse cases documented in a report released in October, French bishops said on Friday.+
The church allowed the abuse to become "systemic," said Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, chair of the country's Bishops Conference. "This responsibility implies a duty to provide justice and reparation," Moulins-Beaufort said.+
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THE former Archbishop of Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Wednesday poured encomiums on Archbishop emeritus, Most Rev (Dr) Patrick Ekpu and six others who he said laid the foundation for the modern Catholic church in Nigeria.+
He said some of the others were Archbishops Joseph Ukpo, late Ephraim Obot late Alexius Makuoze among others.+
Diwali to Jallikattu, activism of hypocrisy galvanising Hindus to defend festivals.
A thread on how Foreign funded religiously backed NGO's work to weaken the native culture.+ @firstpost#ForeignFundedNGOs#AttackonHinduFestival
Sensing a steadily growing nationalism since Narendra Modi came to power, millions of dollars are being spent on putting legal roadblocks for Hindu festivals, running high-profile NGO campaigns, and hiring celebrities to decry the traditions of the land.+
The early, brutal march of Christianity usurped or appropriated pagan festivals. Pope Gelasius condemned the Roman fertility rituals of the Lupercalia on 14 February, declared Valentine of Rome a saint, and threw a feast after him on the same day, thus making it Valentine’s Day.+
To stop this successful vaccination drive led by @narendramodi govt.
Foreign power's and Ideologies are trying their hard to stop it.
Rumours of ‘666’ Microchips keeping Christians away from vaccination in Nagaland. @NortheastToday#COVID19#vaccinehesitancy
At a time when the world is moving towards globalization and fighting the menace of the COvid-19 pandemic, there are still people in Northeast’s Nagaland who are reluctant to get vaccinated due to certain rumors that are being spread on the social media by unscrupulous persons.+
As India is moving towards a 100 % coverage of the first vaccination dose coverage is, in Nagaland’s low literacy Kiphire district, people are still in dilemma.+
The husband of a survivor of Ireland’s mother and baby homes says the Church was like the secret service in the devious way they carried out adoptions.+
Church operating international human trafficking network? @hrw@IrishMirror@rangdebasantitv #ChildTrafficking#Ireland
The Missing Children tells the story of the Tuam mother and baby home, which made global headlines in 2014 when Catherine Corless uncovered the names of the 796 children who died there.+
The scandal revealed that the children had died in appalling circumstances and were buried in an old sewage tank on the grounds of the home, where they remain today.+
FLDS church, its bishop and a contractor ordered to pay nearly $1 million for making children work without pay for years.+ @CNN@hrw@UNHumanRights @rihanna have you read about this?
Hope you consider this as a issue. #ChildLabour#USA
A federal judge in Utah ordered the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and two of its affiliates to pay nearly $1 million for allegedly violating child labor laws when they employed minors on a ranch without paying them for years.+ #Utah
The decision comes after a 2012 video showed women and children working to harvest pecans at a farm in southern Utah. The US Department of Labor had filed a complaint, accusing bishop Lyle Jeffs and his business contractor, Brian Jessop, of illegally hiring the children.+
'They never broke my spirit': Survivors of Indian schools on Menominee Reservation demand Catholic church to acknowledge abuse.+ @gbpressgazette#MassGraves#Canada
As the church bells ring twice a day, at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., every day at St. Anthony’s in Neopit on the Menominee Reservation, advocate Lorraine Shooter said the post-traumatic stress disorder in some of the elders nearby becomes triggered.+
The elders had been students at St. Anthony’s School at a time when U.S. government and church policy was to forcefully assimilate Indigenous youth and separate them from their traditional culture and language.+