church abuse

Bishop Agnelo has written a letter to the nuns stating that he was giving a directive to Regina Kadamthottu, Superior General of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation, not to issue any letters to the five nuns without his explicit permission.

The mother of the victim hails from Mysuru had approached the Karnataka High Court alleging that three pastors had sexually abused her daughter. The court had ordered the Karnataka police to take up the case.

Hermann Geissler, who was the Chief of staff in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been accused of sex abuse by a former nun of the Church named Doris Wagner-Reisinger

The accused Christian priest Father Prakash Damor had first met the minor victim at a missionary school where she was studying in Class 11 and had been allegedly pressurising her to marry him.

The Church has transferred the nuns to their previously allotted convents in what is being seen as an attempt to break the collective strength of the nuns who spoke against Bishop Franco.

Christian priest Aruldoss had allegedly sexually assaulted the minors and had forced them to watch pornography

Churches should focus a little less on Sabarimala and more on the sexual exploitation of women and children by the Churches and Christian priests

The three nuns who have been transferred are reportedly very critical of the victim and supporting nuns and were also part of a team which visited Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Delhi pleading innocence of Franco.

Pastor Pradhan has been charged for rape under the IPC and aggravated sexual assault under the Protection of Children from the Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act.

"It is a film about survivors in India. Sexual abuse within the Catholic Church is real,” Rodrigues said.