Few Sex Abuse Scandals in the Asian Church to Date

LaCroix International
February 13, 2019

https://international.la-croix.com/news/few-sex-abuse-scandals-in-the-asian-church-to-date/9448


Filipino Catholics in front of the Guagua church in Pampanga, north of Manila, Philippines, in Dec. 2017. (Photo by Mark R. Cristino/EPA/MaxPP) Asia has so far experienced very few instances of clergy sex abuse involving minors. One primary reason is that Roman Catholics are just a drop in a this ocean of overwhelmingly Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Muslim countries of Asia. Catholics are a majority only in the Philippines and Timor Leste.In the Philippines, "no member of the clergy has been convicted or imprisoned for sexual abuse of children or vulnerable adults," Bishop Buenaventura Famadico of San Pablo, south of Manila, and president of the Episcopal Commission for the Clergy, told La Croix last September.It is difficult to verify this statement since there is no association for victims of clerical sex abuse in the Philippines archipelago nor are there any statistics available from...