MALTA
Malta Today

Tim Diacono 9 February 2015

Fr Charles Fenech, the Dominican friar charged with sexually assaulting a mentally unstable patient, is soliciting people for adverts in the February issue of a religious magazine.

The magazine in question, Xandar il-Kelma, is published by the Maltese Dominican Province. An e-mail written by Fenech and seen by MaltaToday reads: “I am forwarding to you this attachment for advertising in a special edition of XK Magazine, Malta’s No 1 religious magazine distributed in households. Can you please help us by confirming an advert. Thanks, Fr. Charles Fenech OP.”

The attachment is a poster of Pope Francis, with the words Xandar il-Kelma: The No. 1 Religious Magazine in Malta: 70,000 copies’ superimposed over it.

The poster includes the advertising rates and a message from Fenech, editor-in-chief of the magazine.

“Outside Western Europe, a lot of people still believe in God,” Fenech’s message…