Pope Francis arrived in Lisbon, Portugal on Wednesday for World Youth Day. The event, which is expected to see around 1 million people attend, is a festive gathering for young Catholics held every ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church ...

Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who heads Portugal's Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, attends a news conference in Lisbon Oct. 11, 2022.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 alleged victims have already come forward to speak out, an ...

LISBON — More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 people have already come forward to speak out, an expert panel looking ...

At least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church over the past 70 years, a report by the commission investigating the issue said on Monday, adding the ...

LISBON — A lay committee looking into historical child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal said Thursday that it had received allegations from 214 people during its first month of ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church ...

Anne Barrett Doyle of BishopAccountability.org, a U.S. group that maintains an online archive on abuse in the Catholic Church, said Portugal's bishops had expected the independent commission would ...

LISBON, Portugal — When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church, the ...