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Panaji: Cases of child sex abuse are not rampant among Roman Catholic priests in India as appears to be the case abroad, senior Catholic priests who arrived in Goa for a high-level conference said on Monday.
They said the Vatican, the global seat of Catholicism, has approved guidelines for India as far as handling cases of priests found accused of child sex abuse is concerned.
“In India, it (child sex abuse) is not very rampant, maybe in foreign countries (it is),” Fr. Philemon Doss, president of the Conference of Diocesan Priests of India, told IANS ahead of the three-day conference of Diocesan priests which gets underway in Goa on Tuesday.
The aim of the conference, in which 275 priests from across India are expected to participate, is aimed at helping priests in India foster a expert understanding of their priesthood and encourage collegiality amongst priests of the Diocesan order, which runs several premier educational institutes in the country.
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