ECA GLOBAL NEWS
WINTER 2021
SEX ABUSE SURVIVORS URGE BISHOPS TO DENOUNCE CHURCH MILITANT'S AGENDA
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"We wanted to come here today on behalf of survivors...who are committed to fighting for justice and to also highlight what's not being talked about when they're focused on the Eucharist," said Sarah Pearson, in black coat, who is a sex abuse survivor from Wisconsin who joined other members of the organization Ending Clergy Abuse in addressing bishops. (CNS/Rhina
Guidos)
NOVEMBER 16, 2021: On the first of two days of public sessions during the U.S. bishops' fall general assembly, a group of sex abuse survivors in a Nov. 16 news conference, called on the prelates meeting in Baltimore to focus less on who can take Communion and instead do more to end sex abuse and other abuses by clergy.
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ECA IS SADDENED BY THE PASSING OF CLERGY ABUSE SURVIVOR AND ADVOCATE, PHIL SAVIANO
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Phil Saviano (3rd from the right) with Members of ECA after a Meeting with the Pope's Archbishops in Rome in 2019, during the Pope's Clergy Abuse Summit.
NOVEMBER 28, 2021: Phil's story and his precise documentation of priests who assaulted children helped inform The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. By refusing to sign a confidentiality agreement, he inspired others to tell their stories and exposed the Catholic Church’s worldwide history of covering up
the abuse of children.
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NETFLIX'S 'PROCESSION' SHINES A LIGHT ON THE HORRORS OF AMERICA'S PEDOPHILE PRIESTS
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NOVEMBER 10, 2021:
Tom McCarthy’s Oscar-winning Spotlight is a stirring tribute to the Boston Globe reporters who exposed the scourge of sexual abuse perpetrated (and covered up) by the Catholic Church, but what it
fails to fully evoke is the life-altering trauma suffered by the victims of the church’s monstrous priests and bishops.
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FRENCH CLERICAL ABUSE REPORT PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON CONFESSION
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NOVEMBER 7, 2021: The absolute secrecy of confession is central to the Roman Catholic faith. What is said in confession is between a penitent and God, the priest a mediator. Any priest who breaks that seal can face excommunication under church laws that the Vatican places above all others. In cases, the
secrecy around the sacrament had been used to cover up abuse cases, again raising issues of whether church or state law should prevail. What happens then when what is confessed is a violation of the laws of the state? What justice shall prevail?
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ST. ANNE'S SURVIVORS AND SUPPORTERS
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The film, "In Jesus' Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School," has won the award for Best Indigenous Film from the CARE Awards Film Festival
(West Virginia). This multi-award winning film launched across Canada on June 21, 2021, to coincide National Indigenous Peoples Day. People around the world are listening. View Trailer here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/shatteringthesilence
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NEW LAWS GIVE NSW ABUSE SURVIVORS ACCESS TO FAIR COMPENSATION
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NOVEMBER 9, 2021:
Survivors of
institutional child abuse – including those who were abused while in youth detention facilities – will be able to overturn inadequate settlement payments under new laws that passed the NSW Parliament. (The Parliament of New South Wales is a bicameral legislature in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). The new Civil Liability Amendment (Child
Abuse) Bill gives NSW courts the power to set aside unfair settlement agreements for abuse so survivors can bring a civil claim for fairer compensation.
'We are righting the wrongs of the past to ensure survivors can access the civil justice they deserve and be properly compensated for the appalling
mistreatment they suffered as children,' Attorney General Mark Speakman said.
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NEWFOUNDLAND ACTIVIST FILES SEXUAL ABUSE LAWSUIT AGAINST ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CORP., CATHOLIC PRIEST
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NOVEMBER 2, 2021: Well-known Newfoundland and Labrador activist Gemma Hickey has filed a statement of claim against the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. and priest Denis Walsh for alleged sexual abuse. The claims have not been proven in court. The church is the first
defendant in the case and Walsh is the second defendant.
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FRENCH ARCHBISHOP: "WE MUST MAKE CHANGES IN GOVERNANCE"
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NOVEMBER 1, 2021: Catholics in France are angry and are demanding a change in Church governance that will give more authority to the laity. That's just one of the findings of a new survey commissioned by La Croix following the
October 5th publication of a scathing report on sexual abuse of minors the past 70 years in the Catholic Church in France.
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CHILD USA FOUNDER & CEO CALLS FOR PRESIDENTIAL PANEL TO END CHILD SEX ABUSE
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NOVEMBER 3, 2021:
Marci Hamilton (Child USA): We continue to see rampant cases of child sexual abuse within institutions that time and again fail to protect the children for whom they take responsibility, alongside thousands of cases of abuse in greater society, where there is no direct oversight by
a governing body.
If we are to truly prevent, rather than simply respond to, child sex abuse, the White House and bipartisan congressional leaders must act immediately and establish the first presidential commission to end child sex abuse in the U.S.
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FORMER PHILLY PRIEST PLEADED GUILTY TO LYING TO FBI ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE
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NOVEMBER 11, 2021:
Former Philadelphia priest Robert Brennan admitted he lied to FBI agents during a 2019 investigation into sexual abuse by clergy, bringing a long-awaited measure of justice to relatives of a now-deceased Northeast Philadelphia man who said he’d been abused by Brennan in grade school two decades ago.
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PHOTO SHARING AND ECA FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
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This project is born to help victims, survivors and friends of ECA Global who would like to help themselves and help ECA raise funds for our projects.
ECA has provided guidelines that will assist you in understanding which kind of images or videos you can produce which can be distributed through 2 agencies: SHUTTERSTOCK AND ALAMY.COM.
We will assist you in how to prepare and send your images for upload to the agency portals and how the financial aspect works.
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Zero Tolerance + Zero Cover Up = Truth and Justice
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BE AN ECA SOCIAL MEDIA AMBASSADOR
ECA’s Social Media Ambassadors Program is an exciting and easy way FOR YOU to get involved with ECA and to encourage existing members who know and love the mission of ECA to spread the word about ECA globally.
ECA will utilize Social Media Ambassadors to direct strong social media campaigns and ECA messages to target specific regions and issues relating to the sexual abuse of children by clergy.
ECA has a number of campaigns in the pipeline and we need you to get involved. Together we will #EnditNOW!
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