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Abuse Victims and Supporters Urge ‘Careful’ Selection of US Ambassador to the Vatican
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA – December 9, 2024 (9 a.m. PST) – As President-elect Donald Trump considers his nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA)—an international coalition of survivors and advocates from over 25 countries working to hold the Catholic Church accountable for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults—calls for a “careful and thoughtful” selection process, one that prioritizes the dignity and rights of survivors. Speculation regarding potential candidates has already […]
Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) is a worldwide organization of human rights’ activists and survivors from over 21 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.
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.
TWO PROMINENT INDIAN BISHOPS MUST GO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 08-17-2022. Ending Clergy Abuse Calls for India’s Cardinal Oswald Gracias and Bishop Kannikadass William Antony to be removed from office. Ending Clergy Abuse, an international association of survivor/advocates, Ecaglobal.org , along with Joseph Kennedy, an ECA representative [...]
ECA Indigenous Survivor meets with Pope Francis and draws attention to a current clergy abuse case and cover up in the Congo
JULY 29, 2022: Edmonton, Canada. After 50 years of waiting for an apology for the horrific treatment of indigenous children in residential schools in Canada, Evelyn Korkmaz, co-founding member of Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), and survivor of St. Anne’s Residential [...]
ECA SUMMER NEWS UPDATES
JULY 2022. ECA's Summer Newsletter kicks off with a SNAP Conference in Denver in July. Read about other news and developments on child protection and advocacy from around the world. More here
A secret world of power, abuse and cover-ups in New Zealand schools
July 3, 2022. NEW ZEALAND. Dr Murray Heasley ECA Member and spokesperson for the Network for Survivors of Abuse in Faith-based Institutions, says the Network is at the root of articles exposing Marist abuse in New Zealand. Over the next [...]
Confronting Sexual Violence in Uganda
MAY 2022. UGANDA. Tim Law, Founder and Board Member of ECA traveled to Mpigi Town, Uganda and had the opportunity to spend two days with Janet Aguti and her team called the Totya Platform. The Totya Platform (TP), a non-profit [...]
ST. ANNE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVOR SAYS POPE FRANCIS NEEDS TO DO MORE THAN APOLOGIZE TO US…
Evelyn Korkmaz APRIL 4, 2022: ALONE WITH MY THOUGHTS: I am going to express my thoughts and feelings about the Papal apology. I totally respect that some survivors needed to hear an apology, and that's fine. I am glad you [...]
ECA GLOBAL NEWS – SPRING 2022 UPDATES.
ECA GLOBAL NEWS: DIRECT LINK. SPRING 2022. POPE APOLOGIZES TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF CANADA APRIL 1, 2022. Pope Francis has made a historic apology to Indigenous peoples for the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools. About [...]