The Society of Jesus in Bolivia has begun an investigation to determine if several of its members who served as superiors at the time of the abuse had covered.
null / Credit: CathopicACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA).An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as "blunders," and that the Jesuits covered it up.A nephew of Pedrajas found the diary and contacted the Society of Jesus in Bolivia to file a complaint, and then went to the Spanish prosecutor s office, which dismissed the case for having passed the statute of limitations, El Pais reported.The journalistic investigation also compiled testimonies from alleged victims and relatives.According to a May 9 report by El País, the priest disclosed the alleged abuses to at least seven provincial superiors and some 10 Bolivian and Spanish clergy members.The Bolivian state attorney general s office announced on Monday that it will investigate the incidents linked
Archbishop Percy Galván of La Paz, Bolivia. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Bolivia
CNA Newsroom, Feb 16, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).
In the case known as “Coup I,” Bolivia’s attorney general’s office has requested that 10 bishops testify regardin.
null / Credit: PixabayCNA Newsroom, Jan 24, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Father Pedro Flores, delegate of the Educational Community of the Local Church of the vicariate of Beni in Bolivia, criticized the "perverted curriculum" on comprehensive sexual education presented by the Ministry of Education.In a Jan. 20 press conference, Flores pointed out that the content, which will be taught in schools beginning in the Initial Level (0-6 years old), "is a perverted curriculum, which will pervert the minds of children.""Under the umbrella of what sex education is, they want to present gender ideology and show, as if there were a third way, the identity of the human person," Flores criticized.The priest called on the entire population to express itself in the face of "such a perverse action as this."The president of the Association of Parents of La Salle School, Jeannine Vaca Cuellar, announced a mobilization to stop this interference in the education of their
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CNA Newsroom, Jan 24, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Father Pedro Flores, delegate of the Educational Community of the Local Church of the vicariate of Beni in Bolivia, criticized the “perverted curriculum” on comprehensive sexua.