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Clerical abuse victims 'will protest year after year' - News - Bearsden Herald
Clerical sex abuse survivors are going to mount "bigger and bigger" protests every year in Rome in an effort to keep raising the issue with the Catholic Church, a Warwickshire woman has pledged.
Sue Cox, 63, from Gaydon, who spoke during a meeting near the Vatican at the weekend about her rape ordeal as a 13-year-old at the hands of a priest, said she would return "year after year" with other abuse survivors.
She was among around 100 survivors from a dozen countries, including Italy, the US, Ireland, Holland and Australia, at a candlelit protest on Sunday in Rome.
The protest included around 55 Italians from a Catholic institute for the deaf in Verona where dozens of students said they were raped by priests.
The acupuncturist later met Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi accompanied by protest organisers and US clerical abuse survivors Bernie McDaid and Gary Bergeron.
Mrs Cox, a member of the National Secular Society, accused Fr Lombardi of "PR spin" after the meeting and failing to confront the damage and destruction wreaked by paedophile priests.
"He sat there completely disinterested in anything we had to say. It was spin, there was no dialogue and no conversation," she said.
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Christian girls targeted for violence in Pakistan - Catholic Sentinel - Portland, OR
The Christian community in Pakistan is shocked at increasing violence and abuse targeted at young Christian girls.
Two Christian girls were abducted, raped and murdered by a group of Muslims. A 13 year old became pregnant after being raped by a young Muslim.
Violent abuse is “part of daily life” in Pakistan and growing in number against Christian and Hindu girls, said Fides, a Vatican missionary agency. Christians are targeted because they are considered on a lower social level, and often abductions of young girls involve intent to force marriage and religious conversion or to trap them into prostitution rings.
The latest tragic abuse is part of a larger phenomenon of violence against women in Pakistan, which often meets with indifference and impunity, Fides said.
There were 1,198 kidnappings, 352 rapes and 1,052 murders of women in 2009 alone.
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