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By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Catholic bishops said on Friday they would commission a report on clerical sexual...

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a bill that qualifies all non-consensual sex as rape in...

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it would not at this stage open...

By Emilio Parodi and Alfredo Faieta MILAN (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors on Wednesday requested former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi...

PARIS (Reuters) - Damien Abad, France's newly appointed minister for Solidarity and the Disabled, again strongly denied on Monday he...

By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -France's new government will speed up work on a bill to help...

PARIS (Reuters) - Damien Abad, France's newly appointed minister for Solidarity and the Disabled, on Sunday strongly denied he had...

MADRID (Reuters) -An internal investigation by the Spanish Catholic Church into alleged child sexual abuse by members of the clergy...

By Angelo Amante and Philip Pullella SAVONA, Italy (Reuters) - Francesco Zanardi has spent the past 12 years documenting sexual...

By Rich McKay (Reuters) - In one of the largest cash settlements involving sex abuse and the Roman Catholic Church...

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) -The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday ruled that defendants accused of violent crimes such as...

By Philip Pullella and Anna Mehler Paperny VATICAN CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) -Pope Francis will visit Canada July 24-30, the Vatican said...

By Foo Yun Chee, Charlotte, Van and Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Google, Meta and other online service providers will be required...

ROME (Reuters) - Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini called on Tuesday for an investigation into allegations of widespread sexual harassment of...

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A court in El Salvador jailed a woman for 30 years on Monday for killing her...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police said on Friday it was still investigating the alleged rape and death of a...

By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Investigators have found new evidence potentially incriminating the key suspect in the disappearance of...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday lost a bid to overturn her December 2021...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker as it looks into reports that a...

(Adds dropped word in fourth paragraph) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Friday asked for an...