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Miệng quan, tr... trẻ.

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French report finds over 300,000 children were victims of sex abuse in the Catholic Church

A French commission has released an exhaustive report uncovering 70 years of child sex abuse in the country's Catholic Church. The 2.5-year probe looked at church, court, press and police files.


Twenty-two of the alleged crimes can still be pursued for legal action — but the statue of limitations has expired for another 40 cases

A major report prepared by an independent commission and published Tuesday on child sex abuse in the French Catholic Church has shed light on thousands of child sex abuse cases over the past 70 years.

The 2,500-page document details how an estimated 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds of them priests, worked in the Catholic Church in France over seven decades.

The president of the commission that issued the report, Jean-Marc Sauve, told a news conference that the estimated number of victims was believed to 330,000, if you include offenses by lay members of the Church such as teachers at Catholic schools. An estimated 216,000 were victims of French clergy.

How did the Pope respond?

Pope Francis expressed "pain" over the devastating report, saying his thoughts were with the victims.

"His thoughts turn first to the victims, with great sorrow for their wounds and gratitude for their courage in speaking out," spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the head of the French conference of bishops, Monsignor Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, expressed shame and asked for forgiveness.

"We are appalled" at the conclusions of the report and the numbers of victims, he said.

Who formed the commission and what are its conclusions?

The commission, requested by the church and headed by former civil servant Jean-Marc Sauve, comprised 22 people including sociologists, magistrates, law professors and theologians and members of different faith groups. Together they studied church, court, press and police files as part of its work.

Sauve told the press Tuesday the problem is "very serious," adding, "About 60% of men and women who were sexually abused encounter major problems in their sentimental or sexual life."

Sauve said until the last 20 years, the attitude of the church towards its victims was "deep, cruel indifference.''

Twenty-two of the alleged crimes, which can still be pursued for legal action, have been forwarded to French prosecutors. Forty cases where the statute of limitations has expired, but the alleged perpetrators are living, have been sent on to church officials.

The report states, "The Catholic Church is, after the circle of family and friends, the environment that has the highest prevalence of sexual violence."

Recommendations for preventing abuse include training for priests and other clerics, revising the legal code the Vatican uses to govern the church known as Canon Law, and creating policies that recognize and offer compensation to victims.

How have victims reacted?

Francois Devaux is one of the victims of Bernard Peynat, a notorious, since-defrocked priest, who was convicted of sexually abusing minors and given a five-year prison sentence.

Peynat acknowledged abusing more than 75 boys over decades in a case that led to the resignation last year of the former archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.


Cardinal Philippe Barbarin (pictured above) resigned over the case of a notorious pedophile priest, Bernard Peynat, but was later cleared by the highest court in France of covering up the scandal

Devaux is also the head of the victims' group "La Parole Liberee" (The Liberated Word). He believes the number of victims in the report are "a minimum" since "some victims did not dare to speak out or trust the commission."

The church in France still "hasn't understood" or continues to minimize the issue, Devaux told The Associated Press.

He said the church must not only acknowledge the issue but financially compensate the victims of child sex abuse by clergy and others employed by the church.

"It is indispensable that the church redresses the harm caused by all these crimes, and compensation is the first step," Devaux said.

What has the Vatican done to rein in the problem?

In May 2019, Pope Francis issued a new church law that requires Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report sex abuse by members of the clergy, as well as attempts to cover it up by superiors, to church authorities – but not the police.

In June of this year, Pope Francis turned down the resignation of Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a papal advisor who also serves as the archbishop of Munich and Freising, over the mishandling of child sex abuse cases.

The pope, however, did conclude a process of reform was necessary and said every bishop bears some responsibility for the "catastrophe" caused by child sex abuse within the church.

ar, rs/msh (AP, Reuters)

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Bầu ở tuổi vị thành niên: Give kids a chance.

Germany coalition candidates united on lowering voting age to 16
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-voting-age-16

If their plan goes ahead, Germany would join Austria, the Isle of Man and Guernsey as the only other places in western Europe with such a low voting age. Scotland also allows 16 year olds to vote, though not in UK parliamentary elections. In a handful of German states this has recently been allowed also, but only on a local and regional level.

Such a move nationally could also pave the way for other countries to follow the continent’s largest economy.

Mỹ thập tám Đức thập lục?

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Mỹ thập tám Đức thập lục?

Liên minh đèn xanh đèn đỏ muốn loại đảng bảo thủ ra trong tương lai cho nên mới oánh cú này.

2 đảng bảo thủ ở Đức là Liên minh CDU và CSU. Đảng CSU (Liên minh Xã hội Ki-tô Giáo) chỉ có ở tiểu bang Bayern. Đảng CDU (Liên minh Dân chủ Ki-tô Giáo) - có chữ dân chủ, nhưng đảng này là đảng bảo thủ. 2 đảng này được người già sắp đi bán muối ở Đức tín nhiệm và hay bầu.

Người già còn lao động kiếm ra tiền và người trẻ thì bầu 3 đảng Xanh, Dân Chủ Xã Hội (SPD) và đảng Tự Do (FDP). Cho nên hạ tuổi cử tri là có thêm được phiếu cho 3 đảng còn lại.

Tuy nhiên muốn làm vụ này thì phải sửa hiến pháp. Muốn sửa hiến pháp thì phải thông qua lưỡng viện. Đó là luật lệ cho bầu cử chính phủ liên bang. Còn bầu chính phủ tiểu bang thì đã có 6, 7 tiểu bang cho cử tri 16 tuổi được bầu cũng lâu rồi. Gần đây vụ khí hậu biến đổi trầm trọng nên giới trẻ đi bầu hăng lắm. Thì cũng phải, tương lai của tụi nhỏ không thể nằm trong tay các cụ sắp xuống huyệt được.

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Aspaperagus: hàng mã

Supermarkets using cardboard cutouts
https://www.theguardian.com/business...-supply-issues

Supermarkets are using cardboard cutouts of fruit, vegetables and other groceries to fill gaps on shelves because supply problems combined with a shift towards smaller product ranges mean many stores are now too big.Tesco has begun using pictures of asparagus, carrots, oranges and grapes in its fresh produce aisles, prompting ridicule on social media.

“Mmmm, delicious photos of asparagus,” one commenter wrote on Twitter. Another mocked an oversized picture of the vegetable piled up: “I love that asparagus grows to this size in the UK. It’s our climate, I’m sure.”

Shoppers have spotted fake carrots in Fakenham, cardboard asparagus in London, pictures of oranges and grapes in Milton Keynes, and 2D washing liquid bottles in Cambridge. Sainsbury’s has also used outline drawings of packaging to fill shelves.

Several chains, including Sainsbury’s, Asda and Tesco have also shut food service counters to cut costs, leaving more space to fill.

Bregetables: rau giả có nhiều chất sơ hơn rau thiệt.

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Messy Christmas and Crappy New Year?

Christmas bin collections in UK at risk as lorry drivers quit
https://www.theguardian.com/business...y-drivers-quit

Bin lorry drivers are being offered pay deals worth as much as £40,000 a year to switch to jobs in the food industry. One council in Lancashire said last week it had lost almost half of its drivers in the last three months.

Residents in councils from Devon to London to Peterborough have already seen some collections suspended or delayed.

There have also been complaints about overflowing bins and missed rounds in areas affected by staff shortages. Bin lorry drivers earning about £25,000 a year can boost their salaries by more than 60% by going to work for supermarkets, food hauliers or online retailers.

A spokesperson said the government had increased capacity for HGV driving tests. “We are moving to a high-wage, high-skilled economy and the government is encouraging all sectors to adapt and make employment more attractive to UK domestic workers through offering training, careers options and wage increases.”

Gloria in Brexcelsis people.

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Tôm cá nước Tây, dân Tây đánh
Rành rành định phận brexit rồi
Cớ sao Boris sang xâm phạm
Macron tức giận chửi tơi bời.

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UK disputes French statement over fishing row 'deescalation'

The British government has contradicted French claims that both sides had agreed to defuse a row over post-Brexit fishing rights, insisting it was up to Paris to back down.


Emmanuel Macron and Boris Johnson held brief talks about the fishing spat on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome

The United Kingdom on Sunday rejected a French announcement that their leaders had agreed to deescalate a row over post-Brexit fishing rights.

Earlier, a French official said French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Johnson had agreed to try to resolve the row during a private meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Rome.

But a spokesman for Johnson told reporters later: "It will be for the French to decide whether they want to step away from the threats they've made in recent days about breaching the Brexit agreement."

"Of course, we would welcome that if they want to de-escalate the threats that they have made," he added.

Stepping back from trade war?

Paris said the truce had been agreed after days of tit-for-tat threats raised the prospect of new trade barriers between France and former EU member Britain.

"The goal for both the president and the prime minister was to work towards deescalation," the French official told reporters after a one-on-one meeting between the two leaders. "We are giving ourselves the space for deescalation in the coming hours."

The official said Macron had told Britain it should obey the rules which Paris accuses London of flouting by failing to give France enough fishing licenses to operate in British waters.

According to the Elysee Palace, the goal after the meeting is to come up with practical guidelines as quickly as possible to reduce tensions, according to media reports.

France is incensed that Britain and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey have not issued some French boats permits to fish in their waters since Brexit took full effect at the start of 2021.

Britain has insisted it is meeting the conditions of the post-Brexit trade agreement.

France planned major disruption

Paris had vowed that unless more licenses are approved, it would ban UK boats from unloading their catches at French ports from Tuesday, and even impose checks on all products brought to France from Britain.

Last week, France detained a British trawler that was allegedly fishing illegally in its waters and said the captain would face trial.

Britain stepped up a war of words with France on Saturday, with Johnson refusing to rule out triggering trade dispute action.

The two sides have also been at loggerheads over a nuclear submarine alliance involving Australia, Britain and the United States, dubbed AUKUS, that left France in the cold.

mm/sms (AFP, Reuters)

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Chắc bị bác Tô Lâm xô.

Russian diplomat found dead in Berlin was intelligence officer
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-embassy-fsb

The news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday that police had recovered the body of a Russian diplomat who apparently fell from an embassy window, and that the man had been identified as a member of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s main intelligence and law enforcement agency.

The death has not previously been reported. Der Spiegel said police had discovered the body near the embassy on 19 October and that emergency services were unable to resuscitate. The news outlet reported that German security sources were not sure of the cause of death and that the Russian embassy had not authorised an autopsy.

The embassy has declined to comment on the death of any of its staff. The German foreign ministry has confirmed the death of a Russian diplomat but said it cannot give more information.

The investigative news outlet Bellingcat, citing leaked databases, identified the intelligence agent as the son of a high-ranking FSB officer, a deputy director of the intelligence agency’s Second Service, which has been accused of plotting overseas assassinations.

Gần mực thì đen, gần Nga thì ngã.

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Chắc bị bác Tô Lâm xô.

Tô Lâm chỉ có nâng (bi) chứ làm gì dám xô Nga.
Putin từng là điệp viên hạng gộc mà. Tô Lâm lại
mắc đi ăn thịt bò của "thánh rắc muối" ở Anh rồi.

Nga từ chối Đức khám nghiệm tử thi đồng nghĩa
với thanh trừng nhau ngay trong tòa đại sứ. Tầng
lầu thấp, phe đối lập của Putin cho rằng không phải
bị xô ngã mà bị quăng xuống lầu mới bị chết thảm.

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