Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) is a worldwide organization of human rights’ activists and survivors from over 17 countries and 5 continents who focus on children’s and victims’ rights to compel the Church to end clerical abuse, especially child sexual abuse, in order to protect children and to seek effective justice for victims.
ECA demands the end of the Church’s structural mechanism that allows abuse.
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HISTORY OF ECA
Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) is a new effort that began in August, 2017, in Washington DC from an idea of Barbara Blaine. She asked, “Can we put together a team of clergy abuse activists from all parts of the world to confront the pope and the Vatican?” “Can we show our unity of purpose and no longer be isolated voices?” A group of activists answered positively and Barbara called it The Accountability Project or TAP. Barbara was planning a TAP meeting in Poland for November, 2017, when she died suddenly in September…
HOW YOU CAN HELP
ECA, Ending Clergy Abuse is a new initiative and it is still in formation. Word is getting out and our base is growing. Even within this short amount of time we see that our impact is tangible. We envision a global network of activists united in the common cause of ending clergy abuse. With your support we can do our part to make the world safer for children and redress the wrongs already committed.
ECA is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation.
Survivors of clergy abuse to meet Monday in Rome with Argentine Ambassador to the Holy See.
Crédito: L''Osservatore Romano. Meeting in advance of actions and protests this week in Buenos Aires and Mendoza. Groups want Pope Francis to visit his home country and resolve growing clergy abuse crisis there, enact “true” zero tolerance. Papal [...]
Letter to Argentina’s Ambassador to the Holy See.
April 29, 2019. The Honorable Rogelio Francisco Emilio Pfirter, Embassy of Argentina in Rome, Italy, Piazza dell'Esquilino 2, 00185 Roma, Italy Dear Ambassador, We are writing to you as a global network of survivors of clergy abuse, activists, and organizations [...]
Global groups will join forces with clergy abuse victims in Argentina May 2-6
Public actions and protests to be held in Buenos Aires and Mendoza. Survivors and activists will urge Pope Francis to “come home” and enact “zero tolerance” for abuse. Argentina, groups say, is “ground zero” for Pope’s promise of “an all-out [...]
Two Popes. Zero Solutions. Where’s the Hope?
As Catholics celebrate Easter, the institutional church stands more exposed than at any point in its history. Prosecutors and lawmakers around the world are ending the impunity of Catholic church leaders who enable abuse or commit abuse themselves. In the [...]
Declaración Pública sobre Pedro Salinas y Pao Ugaz
DECLARACIÓN PÚBLICA 10 de abril de 2019. La Organización Mundial Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), instancia que reúne a sobrevivientes de abusos en contexto clerical y a activistas por los derechos humanos, manifiesta su categórico rechazo y preocupación por la reciente [...]
That tacit agreement between the State and the Church that guarantees the impunity of Catholic priests from prison in Italy
APRIL 9, 2019 STATEMENT BY: Francesco Zanardi President of Rete L'Abuso (the ABUSE Network ) Geneva 7 February 2019: "The Committee is concerned about the numerous cases of children being sexually abused by religious personnel of the Catholic Church in [...]
Summit survivors want Pope Francis to apologize for inflammatory comments and explain post summit retreat from zero tolerance
APRIL 4, 2019. A group of global survivors of clergy sexual assault who were present in Rome at the February papal summit are calling upon Pope Francis to apologize for statements comparing them to the "devil" and wanting them to [...]