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Church and Spanish Government Sign Protocol for Compensating Abuse Victims
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Almost three months after the Catholic Church and the Government signed an agreement for the recognition and reparation of victims of sexual abuse in the ecclesiastical institution, both parties signed yesterday, together with the Ombudsman, the protocol that will allow its effective implementation. Everything was ready to stage the agreement two weeks ago, but the bishops postponed it at the last moment without explanation. From April 15, when …
Yesterday, the Spanish State and the Catholic Church signed the protocol regulating the procedures for redressing, as far as possible, the harm suffered by victims of sexual abuse committed by religious. The signatories of that protocol – the Government of Spain, the Ombudsman, the Spanish Episcopal Conference and the Spanish Confederation of Religious – agreed that it will be the Ombudsman, after receiving the relevant report from the Ministry …
The victims will initiate proceedings before the courts, culminating in a proposal by the Ombudsman, in a mixed model that includes economic, symbolic and restorative reparations.
The Spanish Church has signed a new protocol of reparation that expands the work carried out during the last two years with victims of sexual abuse.This new plan, agreed by the Spanish Episcopal Conference, CONFER and the Government and the Ombudsman, establishes a procedure of public collaboration that will allow the victims to go to an external instance, managed by the Ombudsman, to request reparations if they so wish.The measure responds to t…
The priest of Xermade reacts to the new protocol to repair the victims of abuses in the ecclesial sphere
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