Europe
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. January 21, 2019. Francesco Zanardi, an Italian survivor and President of the Italian Association Rete L'Abuso and member of ECA Global, will be in Geneva at the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on...
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...
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...
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...
As worldwide synod of bishops on young people and vocations begins in Rome global survivors of clergy abuse call for action against abuse in seminaries. Group wants synod to embrace zero tolerance of sexual violence, cover up by bishops and demand Vatican compliance...
Italian survivors demand open investigation by the United Nations on clergy sexual abuse. Three events are being organized by Rete L’ABUSO to demonstrate the serious scope of clergy sexual abuse in Italy. Ending Clergy Abuse – Global Justice Project (ECA Global) is...
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...
Figures published today on the extent of sexual abuse by priests in Germany. Statement by Matthias Katsch, speaker and chairman of ECKIGER TISCH and ECA Founding Member. September 12, 2018. It is good that we finally have figures available that prove what we already...
Global groups call on Pope to release church files on former cardinal McCarrick and others. Groups condemn false conflation of sexual orientation and sexual violence in former Vatican ambassador’s letter as “wrong and dangerous”. Washington D.C. -- AUG. 30. 2018....
U.S. research group adds more offenders to database of abusive Irish priests. Irish response to list in last week has been ‘stunning’. Global survivors & abuse experts will join news conference: ‘Did Pope’s visit meet expectations?’ WHEN Monday, August 27, 10:30am...