{"id":524919,"date":"2010-04-12T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:24:02","slug":"maltese-alleged-abuse-victims-ask-to-meet-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524919","title":{"rendered":"Maltese alleged abuse victims ask to meet Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12869\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 460px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12869\" title=\"grech\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/04\/grech.jpg\" alt=\"grech\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Grech, a victim of church child abuse, at a news conference with other victims near Valletta, April 12, 2010\/Darrin Zammit Lupi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ten Maltese men, who have taken three priests to court for alleged  child abuse, on Monday requested a private meeting with Pope Benedict  XVI when he visits Malta during the coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the pope has not spoken out directly on the new wave  of sexual abuse allegations that is hounding the Church in a number of  coutries, including the United Satates, Italy and his native Germany.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a high incidence of allegations of abuse on  the Mediterranean island of Malta, where 45 cases have been reported  involving the clergy going back to the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are asking to meet the Pope for a few minutes to help us  heal and to overcome this trauma,&#8221; Lawrence Grech, a spokesman for the  ten men, told a press conference.\u00a0 He said the victims, who were resident in a home for children  when the alleged abuse took place, were seeking justice, not financial  compensation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-47636020100412\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at         RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Grech, a victim of church child abuse, at a news conference with other victims near Valletta, April 12, 2010\/Darrin Zammit Lupi Ten Maltese men, who have taken three priests to court for alleged child abuse, on Monday requested a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Malta during the coming weekend. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524919","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\/4076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}