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Embargoed until  2pm, Thursday 19th April 2012 PRESS CONFERENCE: 19/4/12 AT 14.00HRS, CONWAY HALL, 25 RED LION SQUARE, WC1R 4RL   Alliance to STOP CHURCH CHILD ABUSE calls on the Government to commission a Public Inquiry into abuse of children … Continue reading →

This is news update on the struggle SNAP are having in the American Courts to stop the Catholic Church from trying to obtain confidential information they hold on communications between them and their survivor clients in response to a subpoena … Continue reading →

Around 90 people who were sexually and physically abused by their carers in Jersey children‘s homes will receive compensation of up to £60,000 after the government in St Helier offered an “unreserved apology” to the victims. Announcing the launch of … Continue reading →

In a recent news story it was explained how the Catholic Church of the Missouri diocese had tried to obtain any information held by SNAP (Survivors Network of those abuse by Priests) by way of witness summons. There has been … Continue reading →

Turning the tables on an advocacy group that has long supported victims of pedophile priests, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Church and priests accused of sexual abuse in two Missouri cases have gone to court to compel the group to disclose … Continue reading →

A group representing survivors of clerical abuse has been told that a number of religious orders have begun searching their archives for evidence linked to child abuse. The Northern Ireland Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse group (Savia) met Catholic … Continue reading →

Three Catholic orders have appointed archivists to search through their historical paperwork for evidence of abuse, following a landmark meeting with survivors. Cardinal Sean Brady spoke to members of the group Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (SAVIA) for over … Continue reading →

Minutes of Meeting of Interest Groups 27 January 2012 Conway Hall London 1.30 – 3.30 pm   David Greenwood (Chair) explained the reason for the convening of the meeting was that he and others had noticed an escalation in complaints … Continue reading →

We’ve received word from Restoring Dignity that they’re to have a press conference today at 1:30pm in Luneburg Room, The Westin, Nova Scotian, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Below follows their press release related to it. Traumatic Brain Injury common among child abuse victims/survivors but … Continue reading →

All journalists like seeing their articles discussed on television, even when they’re being challenged, but the sight of John Poppleton holding a copy of an obituary I wrote earlier this year for the Guardian made me feel profoundly ashamed. The … Continue reading →