Members of the Portuguese Catholic Church have sexually abused more than 4,000 children since 1950. That is among the findings of a commission investigating child abuse in the Portuguese Church, released on Monday. Most of the victims were men, and 77 percent of perpetrators were priests, the commission said. It is the latest in a long series of investigations into sexual crimes by Catholic priests in numerous countries. Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands has more. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Portuguese #CatholicChurch #religion #sexualassault
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the former Pope, died at the age of 95. He was regarded as a strict traditionalist within the Catholic Church. He resigned in 2013, after suffering ill health, becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. Al Jazeera’s Paul Brennan reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Pope #PopeBenedict #Vatican #TheVatican #PopeFrancis #Catholic
Nicaragua’s government has expelled a group of Catholic nuns from an order founded by Mother Teresa. Critics say it is part of a crackdown on anyone suspected of opposing the president. The nuns have been accused of breaching new funding laws in their work with children and abused women. Al Jazeera’s Latin America editor @Lucia Newman reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Nicaragua #PoliticalCrisis
0 Pope Francis is going to Iraq for a three-day visit, his first trip outside Italy since the pandemic began. The pope will be welcomed by the prime minister when he arrives in Baghdad on Friday. He will then meet President Barham Salih, as well as religious leaders, and representatives of civil society at the presidential palace. The next day, Francis will fly to the city of Najaf and meet Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Later, he will celebrate mass in Baghdad. On Sunday, Pope Francis will travel to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, where he will meet with religious and civil leaders of the autonomous region. Al Jazeera’s Osama […]
