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AP - A top Roman Catholic official in Chile acknowledged in a letter Sunday that he suspended an investigation into alleged abuses by a priest because he was looking for…

AP - A retired priest said Saturday that he told church authorities years ago about allegations that Belgium’s longest-serving bishop had abused a boy but he was stonewalled until the…

AP - Two former priests say they told church authorities years ago about allegations that Belgium’s longest-serving bishop abused a boy but were stonewalled until he was forced to resign…

AP - A Brazilian official said Friday that three former altar boys who accused a Roman Catholic priest of sexual abuse have received threats and are under police protection.

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AP - A U.S. military judge has cleared a Navy SEAL of wrongdoing in the alleged beating of a prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four American…

AP - A U.S. Navy SEAL was cleared Thursday of charges he covered up the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four…

AP - Heads are starting to roll in the Catholic Church’s child abuse scandal.

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AP - Iraqi officials are investigating claims that detainees, believed to be mostly Sunnis, were tortured at a makeshift prison in Baghdad, in a case that has outraged the country’s…

AP - A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four…

AP - The pope has accepted the resignation of an Irish bishop who admitted he didn’t challenge the Dublin church’s policy of covering up clerical sex abuse.

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