COLOMBIA
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Bogota (AFP) – Colombia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Catholic Church must compensate two victims of a priest convicted of sexual abuse of minors.

The court ruled on Thursday that the Church must pay $22,300 (64 million Colombian pesos) to the victims, now aged 15 and 16, as well as $13,200 to their parents, as well as $5,600 to each of their siblings.

The Diocese of Libano-Honda, in Colombia’s northern Tolima department, had filed a petition in 2011 against a ruling ordering them to compensate the victims of convicted priest Luis Enrique Padua.