India’s Kerala State Publishes Guidelines on Clerical Sex Abuse

By Nirmala Carvalho
Crux
February 7, 2019

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Bishops in India’s most Christian state have declared a “zero tolerance” policy for the sexual abuse of children.

The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council issued safe environment guidelines this week, sending them to every Catholic institution in the state.

Kerala has 6.1 million Christians - over 18 percent of the population of the southern state - and 60 percent of them are Catholic, divided into Latin, Syro-Malabar, and Syro-Malankara rite jurisdictions.

Kerala’s Catholic Church is highly influential throughout India, since many priests and religious in other parts of the country come from the state.