Saturday June 29. News from Switzerland. https://youtu.be/f5JqPp0NawI Rassemblement à Berne contre les abus sexuels dans l'Eglise https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/10542771-rassemblement-a-berne-contre-les-abus-sexuels-dans-l-eglise.html Environ 150 personnes ont...
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Pope Francis issues new church law on abuse and cover-up with little if no changes in current law.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2019 Pope Francis issues new church law on abuse and cover-up with little if no changes in current law. Law allows bishops to keep child abusers in ministry with no consequences for bishops that cover. up sex crimes Statement by Ending...
With much touted “new” papal decree today, there is still no actual zero tolerance for child sex crimes by clergy even in Vatican City
STATEMENT BY: Peter Isely, (US Spokesperson/ECA Founding Member) March 29, 2019. Today Pope Francis has put into church law for the small territory of the Vatican State what Vatican officials are touting as the most “advanced international thinking on the matter” of...
Survivors expectations High for Wednesday’s Anticipated Meeting with Pope Francis
Survivors expectations High for Wednesday’s Anticipated Meeting with Pope Francis Survivors who are leaders of victims’ organizations from around the world will be in attendance WHAT Five victims of clergy sexual abuse who are members of Ending Clergy Abuse, a global...
Global Countdown to Zero Tolerance – ECA Schedule of Activities
“Global Countdown to Zero Tolerance.” International Clergy Abuse Survivors, Activists and Allies to Stage Five Day Campaign in Rome during Papal Summit. Actions will include a Global “March to Zero”. Rome, Italy (January 31, 2019) -- A global organization of prominent...
ECA Global calls for meeting with Pope Francis at February Summit.
January 16, 2019. His Holiness, Pope Francis. Apostolic Palace. 00120 Vatican City. Dear Pope Francis, We are writing to you as global survivors of childhood clergy sexual abuse and human rights activists to urge you to include in your February summit members of our...
Global group of activists and survivors of sexual abuse in France and elsewhere stand with Vignon
Statement by Nadia Debbache, ECA Assembly Member and Lead Counsel for La Parole Libérée. November 4. 2018. French priest Pierre Vignon, a judge of the Officiality or Ecclesiasticel Court of Lyon (France) has just been sanctioned for publicly asking for the resignation...
Survivors from around the globe welcome US federal investigation of Pennsylvania dioceses but inquiry needs to be nationwide
US justice officials are well behind Australia and other countries. October 18, 2018. Today it was learned that the US Justice Department has finally launched an investigation into the sex abuse of children and the cover up of those crimes in the dioceses of...
Protest in Warsaw to demand investigation of pedophilia in Poland’s church
Warsaw protest to demand investigation of pedophilia in Poland's church. Reported by Donald Snyder NCR online. October 4, 2018. Child sexual abuse survivor and victims' advocate Marek Lisinski is leading a march Oct. 7 in Warsaw to protest pedophilia in Poland's...
Global survivors respond to official release of German church abuse study
September 25, 2018. The official release today by the German bishops of their self-authorized study of the sexual abuse of children in the German church, already widely reported on last week from leaked sources, is significant not only for what it says but for what it...







