The Church collected 146 new testimonies of abuse in 2024, bringing the figure to 1,203 in four years.

The Catholic Church, through its Offices for the Protection of Minors, has collected 146 new testimonies from victims of abuse in 2024, which, together with the 1,057 cases that it recognized in the last edition of its report 'To give light', published in December 2023, raise the figure to 1,203 complaints. Of those 146 testimonies, 94 have not had a judicial tour for the death of the perpetrator or the statute of limitations for the crime, so t…

The Archdiocese of Barcelona will launch in September the Course of Orientation in the Prevention of Psychosocial Risks in the Church, through the Service of Care for Victims of Abuse (Sava) and in collaboration with the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Barcelona (Iscreb).This course, designed for people working in the Church, aims to help students obtain the necessary tools to detect and prevent the various types of abuse within the ec…

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The news The Episcopal Conference has already received more than a thousand testimonies of sexual abuse was first published in Last Minute Religious News