Sex Crimes Catholic Church in France: An estimated 330,000 child victims were sexually abused, according to French report Commission President Jean-Marc Sauve, said the estimate, based on ...

B efore the French Revolution, at the end of the 1700s, the Catholic Church had a strong presence in France. By then, many monumental churches had been built all over the country, a symbol of the ...

France has seen a spate of attacks against Catholic churches since the start of the year, vandalism that has included arson and desecration. Vandals have smashed statues, knocked down tabernacles ...

The head of a commission examining sexual abuse in France’s Catholic Church put the possible number of child victims at more than 10,000 on Tuesday, portending a public reckoning in a country ...

PARIS — An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers — two-thirds of them priests — have worked in the church over ...

An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a report released Tuesday that represents the country’s first major ...

Roman Catholic churches have increasingly come under attack in France, a country so long identified with Christianity that it used to be called “the eldest daughter of the church.” Comments ...

The publication of the Sauvé Report on sexual violence in the Catholic Church of France between 1950 and 2020, in October 2021, caused a shockwave whose effects are still being felt on a national ...

In Paris, a church-led commission has done the opposite. Two decades ago in Boston, the archdiocese fought efforts to uncover its complicity in the crimes of pedophile priests. Skip to main content ...

Rome Newsroom, May 4, 2021 / 13:00 pm. One religious building is disappearing in France every two weeks. That is the conclusion of Edouard de Lamaze, president of the Observatoire du patrimoine ...