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 ...

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.

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 ...

ACI Digital, Jul 25, 2024 / 16:00 pm. Requests for financial compensation for victims of sexual abuse committed in the Church in Portugal will be analyzed by two commissions, one to analyze the ...

Marielle Louw, raised hands, and Andries Louw, missionaries from South Africa, pray during a worship service at Surf Church in Matosinhos beach in the suburbs of Porto, Portugal on Sunday, Aug. 18 ...

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 ...