Étiqueté : abuse

Hussain Khanwala, Punjab – The brick lanes of Hussain Khanwala are narrow and dark. Three years ago, the largest child abuse scandal in Pakistan’s history shattered this rural Punjabi village, home to a poor farming community. It is fewer than 20km from where seven-year-old Zainab Ansari was raped and murdered in January. Little more than…

Pope Francis has returned to Rome after trip to South America that he may well wish he never made. The pope began his trip to Chile by asking for forgiveness for clerical sex abuses, saying he felt « pain and shame » for the damage done to victims. But when he followed up by allowing a bishop…

Pope Francis has arrived in Chile for the first leg of his Latin American papal tour, with protests over alleged sexual abuse within the Catholic Church marking his visit. Demonstrations are expected to take place throughout the capital, Santiago, on Tuesday, where the pope is scheduled to conduct an open-air mass at 13:30 GMT. More than…

Santiago, Chile – The last time a pope visited Chile was in 1987, when the then staunchly Catholic South American country was in the midst of military rule. Even communists embraced John Paul II, because of the Chilean Church’s outspoken defence of human rights. But 31 years on, the arrival of the first Latin American…