{"id":520346,"date":"2010-04-08T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12811"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:16:00","slug":"africa-also-suffers-sex-abuse-by-priests-joburg-rc-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520346","title":{"rendered":"Africa also suffers sex abuse by priests: Joburg RC archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12812\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12812\" title=\"africa crucifix\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/04\/africa-crucifix-350x223-custom.jpg\" alt=\"africa crucifix\" width=\"350\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the faithful shows a crucifix to Pope Benedict XVI during a youth rally at the Dos Coqueiros stadium in Luanda, Angola March 21, 2009\/Alessandro Bianchi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span id=\"apture_prvw2\"> <\/span><\/strong>Sexual abuse by Catholic priests is a scourge in Africa as well as  the Western countries where scandals have badly hurt the Vatican&#8217;s  image, a leading African Catholic archbishop has said.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop of Johannesburg Buti Tlhagale said the damage weakened  the Church&#8217;s ability to speak out with moral authority in Africa, where  it has at times been a rare voice challenging dictatorship, corruption  and abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What happens in Ireland or in Germany or America affects us  all,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbc.org.za\/Site\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=422:archbishop-tlhagale-makes-a-major-statement-on-priest-abuse&amp;catid=1:latest&amp;Itemid=100\">Tlhagale said in a message on April 1<\/a> that was published this week  on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbc.org.za\/home.htm\"> website of the Southern African Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference<\/a>,  which Tlhagale heads.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It simply means that the misbehavior of priests in Africa has  not been exposed to the same glare of the media as in other parts of the  world,&#8221;<\/em> he said. <em>&#8220;I know that the Church in Africa, is inflicted by the same  scourge.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"apture_prvw2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at      RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the faithful shows a crucifix to Pope Benedict XVI during a youth rally at the Dos Coqueiros stadium in Luanda, Angola March 21, 2009\/Alessandro Bianchi Sexual abuse by Catholic priests is a scourge in Africa as well as the Western countries where scandals have badly hurt the Vatican&#8217;s image, a leading African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}