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Sorry but this is sooo disturbing!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vatican’s top anti-abuse prosecutor has warned that the Catholic Church in Asia is falling behind in the fight against pedophilia due to cultural differences over what constitutes child abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The problem is very accentuated in Asia,”<\/strong> Archbishop Charles Scicluna told reporters ahead of a major international conference this week in the Vatican’s Gregorian University on the crisis of pedophilia in the Church.<\/p>\n

Scicluna, who addressed an unprecedented closed-door meeting on the issue with Asian Church leaders in Bangkok in November last year, added:<\/strong> “There is an awareness that there is abuse and something needs to be done.”<\/p>\n

The Vatican has asked national bishops’ conferences from around the world to submit by May their category_idelines on how to deal with abusive priests and cooperate with local law enforcement in an effort to root out abuse.<\/p>\n

“In some cultures, it’s hard for victims to come forward. We are debating how to change a culture that favors silence over denunciation,” he said.<\/p>\n

Thousands of clergy abuse scandals in Europe and the United States have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years, revealing a culture of cover-up dating back decades that Church leaders say they now want to eradicate.<\/p>\n

Far fewer cases of child abuse have come to light in other parts of the world such as Asia<\/strong>, Africa and Latin America, where public scandals involving financial corruption or affairs by priests with women have been more common.<\/p>\n

The meeting of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) in November, entitled “The Impact of Paedophilia: Crisis in the Church in Asia”<\/strong>, warned that abuse “has already become a considerably serious problem in Asia”.<\/p>\n

“Let us not be complacent that pedophilia is a problem of the West or the other continents of the world. It is equally prevalent in many countries in Asia,” organizers said, calling for “drastic and immediate measures.”<\/p>\n

WTF? You are supposed to be men and women of God, yet you molest children? No wonder religions are going out of style! Hypocrites!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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