The Church had until now refused to compensate victims in cases where the abuser had died, a frequent occurrence. A billboard denounces children sexual abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic ...

Spain's bishops apologised on Monday after a report estimated that more than 200,000 minors had been sexually abused by the country's Roman Catholic clergy since 1940.

MADRID — Spain’s Roman Catholic bishops’ conference says it has found evidence of 728 sexual abusers within the church since 1945, through the testimony of 927 victims, in its first public ...

MADRID (AP) — Spain on Tuesday approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuse committed by people connected to the Catholic Church. *Billed as $4 ...

Spain’s first official probe of sex abuse by clergy members or other people connected to the Catholic Church in the country included a survey that indicated that the number of victims could run ...

An independent investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Spain has found that more than 230,000 children may have suffered abuse by members of the clergy. Skip to content.

Close-up of a cleric's robe standing in a Spain's church. — AFP/File An independent commission released its findings on Friday, estimating that since 1940, over 200,000 children in Spain have ...

An internal Church investigation published in June identified 728 alleged sexual abusers among Spain's clergy and 927 victims since the 1940s. That followed a 2021 report in El Pais newspaper that ...

An investigation by Spain’s Catholic Church found that priests and other church personnel there sexually abused almost a thousand victims over eight decades. A report by the Spanish Catholic ...

Spain’s first official probe of sex abuse by clergy members or other people connected to the Catholic Church in the country included a survey that indicated that the number of victims could run ...