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Child sex abuse in the Dutch Catholic Church
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Article: Dutch bishops shredded sex abuse evidence
Dutch bishops destroyed incriminating evidence of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Secret archives of the diocese of Den Bosch, which showed that priests had committed abuse, were shredded.
Article: Catholic sexual abuse report calls for swift help for victims
Victims of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church should receive compensation and the church cannot relinquish its responsibility towards victims due to the lapse of time. These are two of the conclusions drawn by Wim Deetman after...
Article: Chesal and Dohmen, Journalists of the Year
While he wouldn’t exactly call himself shy, he admits to being taken aback by the attention lavished on him this year. Robert Chesal, journalist at Radio Netherlands Worldwide, had already found himself at the centre of a buzz of...
Article: Dutch bishop sexually abused young boy
A former Dutch bishop committed sexual abuse as a young priest. Bishop Van Luyn of Rotterdam has known of the offence since 2008, but has kept quiet about it. According to Roman Catholic Church documents in the possession of Radio...
Article: Radio Netherlands Worldwide and NRC Handelsblad win prize for investigative journalism
Radio Netherlands Worldwide journalist Robert Chesal and his colleague Joep Dohmen from newspaper NRC Handelsblad have jointly won 'De Loep' (The Magnifying Glass), a prestigious annual prize for investigative journalism in the Netherlands...
Article: RNW production nominated for prize
A series of reports produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Dutch NRC Handelsblad newspaper on sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has been nominated for the ‘De Loep' (The Magnifying Glass) investigative journalism...
Article: Curaçao bishop apologised to abuse victim
Priests abused children and a Roman Catholic bishop put the church’s image first. An investigation by Radio Netherlands Worldwide reveals that this increasingly familiar pattern also went on for decades in Curaçao. The first...
Article: Dutch clerical abuse victims to join Rome rally
An international meeting in Rome of victims abused by Catholic priests will also be attended by dozens of Dutch citizens. Abuse victim Ton Leerschool announced the news in an open letter to the Deetman inquiry. In it, he asks bishops to...
Article: Abused as child, now a Muslim
Child abuse by Catholic priests has seriously dented the trust of the faithful in the Church. Charles Evers, who was abused by a priest, converted to Islam and now is called Yusuf. “Catholicism is a nasty faith,” Yusuf says....
Article: Belgium hits back at Vatican over paedophilia raids
Belgium and the Vatican are on a collision course after the Holy See accused the Belgian police of using communist tactics in their paedophilia raids on Catholic bishops last week. Belgium’s Foreign Minister told RNW that the Vatican...
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