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Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has defrocked two Chilean bishops for the alleged sexual abuse of minors, the Vatican said in a statement on Saturday after a meeting between the pontiff and the president of Chile. The decision to expel former archbishop Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus and former bishop Marco Antonio Ordenes Fernandez — the latest heads to roll in a country hit hard by the cleric abuse scandal — could not be appealed, it […]
By Luis Andres Henao and Patricia Luna Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s Roman Catholic Church has apologized for a set of conduct guidelines for priests dealing with children that has caused outrage just as the South American country is being rocked by a widespread clerical sex abuse scandal. The recommendations include asking priests not to “touch the area of the genitals or the chest” of minors, kiss them on the mouth, spank […]
by Miguel SANCHEZ Agence France Presse RANCAGUA, Chile (AFP) — Santiago Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati on Wednesday went before a prosecutor investigating a sex abuse scandal that has roiled the Catholic Church in Chile but declined to answer questions about accusations he was involved in a cover-up. The Catholic Church is under increasing scrutiny because of the escalating worldwide sex abuse crisis, which has seen scandals emerge in North and South America, Europe and Australia that […]
by Paulina Abramovich Agence France Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Scores of new cases of priestly sexual abuse of minors have come to light in Chile, public prosecutors said Friday, deepening a crisis in the country’s Catholic Church that has embroiled its Pope Francis. The country’s chief prosecutor’s office said the number of cases it was investigating had soared to 119 as more victims came forward. A total of 167 bishops, priests and lay […]
by Paulina ABRAMOVICH © Agence France-Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP)–Easter Island is known for its unique Moai monumental statues carved by the Rapa Nui people, believed to have arrived on the remote landmass in the southeastern Pacific Ocean in around the 12th century. Despite its isolated location some 3,500 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the coast of Chile, the island is a popular tourist destination, not least due to its remarkable collection of around 900 tall human […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — The Vatican dismissed a Chilean deacon over sexual abuse accusations in central Chile, the archdiocese of the city of Rancagua said Friday, amid a widespread abuse scandal gripping the country’s Catholic Church. Luis Rubio was arrested for improper conduct and sexual abuse of minors when he was in charge of a Las Cabras school in 2013. A year later, the archdiocese of Rancagua dismissed him from his duties while an […]
Krest-Anne Cortes Eagle News Service SANTIAGO, Chile — El sistema frontal que la zona central del país enfrentó durante la jornada del día de ayer, llegó con lluvias y vientos intensos, el cual deja esta noche a unas 33 mil clientes sin suministro eléctrico. Esto fue señalado por la ministra de energía, Susana Jiménez, quien en declaraciones a Emol, detalló que “a nivel país, exactamente (tenemos) 32.639 afectados.” “Los principales cortes están en las regiones […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — The world’s largest copper producer, Chile, said it was concerned Wednesday as copper fell to a nine-month low ahead of the first shots of a US-China trade war this week. “We are worried and we hope it’s a transitory effect,” Finance Minister Felipe Larrain told a news conference, attributing the 2.0 percent drop to US trade tariffs on goods from China and the prospect of Chinese retaliation. “Unfortunately, what we have […]
by Sofia Miselem Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mario Sepulveda, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, had a moving message of encouragement Wednesday for the boys’ football team trapped in a cave in Thailand: “Hang in there!” In a video message sent to AFP, Sepulveda — known as “Super Mario” for helping keep his comrades’ spirits up during their ordeal — said his thoughts were with […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) – A Chilean judge has convicted nine retired soldiers in the 1973 murder of one of Chile’s most beloved folk singers, Victor Jara, the judiciary said on Tuesday. Jara, 40, was arrested the day after the September 11, 1973 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet as dictator. Jara’s body was found days later, riddled with 44 bullets. He had been held, along with around 5,000 other political prisoners, […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Police on Wednesday seized church files in raids in Santiago and Rancagua, as the Catholic Church scrambled to try to put a better face on a sex abuse scandal that has rocked Chile. The surprise operations came as Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna and fellow papal envoy Jordi Bertomeu are visiting for a second time to take witness statements from victims of sexual abuse in the church and provide instruction to […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — The Vatican’s top abuse investigator arrived in Chile on Tuesday, a day after the Catholic Pope accepted the resignation of three bishops from the scandal-wracked Chilean Church. Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna and fellow papal envoy Jordi Bertomeu will take witness statements from victims of sexual abuse within the Church and provide instruction to Chilean dioceses to respond adequately to any new complaints. “We have come to ask forgiveness” from the victims on […]
