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Pope Francis issues new rules requiring priests, nuns to report sexual abu
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Vatican city [Vatican city], May 9 (ANI): Pope Francis issued new laws for the Catholic Church on Thursday, mandating that all priests and nuns report sexual abuse and cover-ups to church authorities.
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Pope Francis donates $500,000 to migrants at US-Mexico border
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Vatican City, Apr 29 (ANI): Pope Francis recently donated USD 5,00,000 to help migrants in Mexico who are attempting to enter the United States, reinforcing the pontiff's stance of welcoming migrants rather than stigmatising them.
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Notre Dame Fire: Pope Francis, PM Modi express solidarity with France
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Vatican City, New Delhi [Vatican City, India], Apr 16 (ANI): Pope Francis on Tuesday expressed solidarity with the people of France following the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday.
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Cardinal George Pell found guilty of sexually assaulting choirboys
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], Feb 26 (ANI): Cardinal George Pell, who is considered to be one of the most powerful men in the Vatican, was found guilty of sexually abusing choirboys.
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Abusive clergy tools of Satan: Pope
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican City], Feb 25 (ANI): Ending the four-day summit on "The Protection of Minors in the Church" here, Pope Francis called clergymen who perpetrated sexual abuse as "tools of Satan," on Sunday (local time).
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Victims of clerical sexual abuse hold protests near Vatican
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Rome [Italy], Feb 24 (ANI): Scores of victims, who were allegedly sexually abused by members from the Catholic clergy as children, held protests near the Vatican on Saturday (local time).
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Vatican dismisses former US cardinal over sexual abuse allegations
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 17 (ANI): The Vatican has defrocked former United States cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, after a church trial found him guilty of sexually abusing minors.
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Pope Francis delivers historic mass in UAE
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Abu Dhabi [UAE], Feb 5 (ANI): Pope Francis became the first pontiff to deliver a mass in the Arabian Peninsula, where he addressed a gathering of around 1,35,000 people at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
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Vatican spokesperson, deputy resign
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Vatican City, Dec 31 (ANI): Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke resigned on Monday.
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Pope Francis rebukes priestly sex abusers
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Vatican City [Vatican City], Dec 21 (ANI): Pope Francis, in his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy, called out sexual abusers from within the clergy and asked them to "convert and hand themselves over to human justice".
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Bishop Mulakkal arrested: Catholic body expresses confidence in judiciary
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 21 (ANI): In the wake of Bishop Franco Mulakkal's arrest, the Catholic Bishop's Conference of India (CBCI) on Friday expressed its confidence in the Indian judicial system.
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Kerala nun rape: Bishop Mulakkal arrested
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Sep 21 (ANI): Following three days of questioning, the police on Friday arrested Bishop Franco Mulakkal in connection with the rape of a Kerala nun.
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