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.
Global group of activists and survivors of sexual abuse in France and elsewhere stand with Vignon
(Photo credit: John Leicester, File/Associated Press) 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) [...]
US DOJ orders all US bishops not to destroy abuse documents, but in previous post Pennsylvania bishop did just that.
October 26, 2018. Today it was learned that the U.S. Department of Justice has put every US diocese under notice to “not destroy, discard, dispose of, delete, or alter any” documents related to the sexual abuse of children as they investigate [...]
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 [...]
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. Childrens' shoes are seen Aug. 26 on the fence of the Church of Saint Florian in Krakow, Poland, for victims [...]
Global survivors of clergy abuse call for action against abuse in seminaries
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 [...]
New information revealed on the serious scope of clergy sexual abuse in Italy
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 survivors respond to official release of German church abuse study
Matthias Katsch (Photo by Simone Padovani) 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 [...]