July, 2014
Pope Francis: 'About 2%' of Catholic clergy paedophiles
July 14, 2014 ·
13 July 2014 Last updated at 15:52 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28282050 Pope Francis has been quoted as saying that reliable data indicates that “about 2%” of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles. The Pope said that abuse of children was like “leprosy” infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper. He vowed to “confront it with the […]
Read More...Westminster 'Paedophile Ring': 'Powerful Elite' Of MPs And Ministers Abused Children, Peter McKelvie Says
July 11, 2014 ·
Westminster ‘Paedophile Ring’: ‘Powerful Elite’ Of MPs And Ministers Abused Children, Peter McKelvie Says
Read More...THE RESCUE
July 11, 2014 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen – The dilapidated house and few small cottages falling apart made up what was called S.C.O.T.S. Foundation for abandoned children. It was set up by Lilian May Thomson, 65, from Dunfermline, Scotland. According to her US passport she is named as Lilian May Zimmer. Her house is in a remote place at the end of a small, narrow valley in Subic, Philippines.
Read More...Child rape seen symptom of bigger Zamboanga City crisis
July 11, 2014 ·
ZAMBOANGA CITY—The rape of a 6-year-old girl in an evacuation camp here is turning the spotlight on the continued suffering of city residents who fled a terror attack and a government offensive last year and who, for still unexplained reasons, languish in shelters with no power, potable water and food.The story of the girl’s rape caught the attention of social workers after another child, an 11-year-old boy, was tagged the culprit. The story took a new turn and led to the girl’s grandfather being the offender.
Read More...Researchers show how early stress hurts brain development
July 9, 2014 ·
(manilatimes.net) — MILWAUKEE — A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child’s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
Read More...Pope will meet sex abuse victims,Zero tolerance for paedophile priests.
July 8, 2014 ·
(Press Association) – Pope Francis has announced he will meet a group of sex abuse victims next month at the Vatican and declared “zero tolerance” for any member of the clergy who would violate a child. Francis also revealed that three bishops are currently under investigation by the Vatican for abuse-related reasons, though it was not clear if they were accused of committing abuse itself or of having covered it up.
Read More...No pain for the poor no gain for the rich
July 8, 2014 ·
One of most important things for a happy, meaningful life is to have a goal, a positive purpose that is good for both others and ourselves. It can be helping in the community, volunteering in a Fair Trade shop, supporting a shelter for the homeless, or raising funds for a worthy cause.
Read More...Lord Tebbit: there 'may well' have been a (UK) Government cover-up of child abuse
July 7, 2014 ·
By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent – The veteran former minister says it was the instinct of people at the time to protect ‘the system’ and not to delve too deeply into uncomfortable allegations. Lord Tebbit says he thinks there may well have been an establishment cover-up of child abuse in the 1980s
Read More...Negros 9’: Work for poor continues
July 7, 2014 ·
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL—Collectively, they were called the “Negros Nine”—three missionary priests and six lay leaders who were wrongly accused of killing a municipal mayor and his companions in Negros Occidental province in the twilight of the Marcos dictatorship in the ’80s.
Read More...Whitehall child sex inquiry: the 114 files 'lost’
July 7, 2014 ·
By Patrick Sawer and Tim Ross The Daily Telegraph 05 Jul 2014 UK Home Office admits that it destroyed, lost or could not find ‘potentially relevant files’ between 1979 and 1999 . The lost files are part of an investigation into the handling of a dossier about child abuse allegations presented to Leon Brittan, […]
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