Victims of Church sex abuse go global with fight for justice 1 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseAfter years of struggling alone or finding support in national groups, survivors of sex abuse by priests have formed a new international alliance to pressure the Catholic Church to face up to its crimes. The group, called Ending Clerical Abuse (ECA), brings together activists from dozens of countries on several continents and will be mobilized in Rome this week when Pope Francis hosts a hotly awaited summit on tackling the wave of child sex abuse scandals shaking the Catholic Church. “It’s a momentous and a historic movement… to bring a global and unified voice,” one of its co-founders, Peter Saunders, told AFP. He said ECA needs to act “to create secure spaces within the Church”, safe from abuse.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 19, 2019 03:45 UTC