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Bétharram school scandal: Independent commission investigates sexual abuse by priests abroad
One of the priests implicated in the scandal of violence and sexual assaults at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram Catholic school ...
Death of 12-year-old Nicolas in French Catholic boarding school at center of sex abuse scandal
The boy was enrolled in Notre-Dame de Bétharram when he died of sudden meningitis in June 1980. Investigating his death, his ...
Will claims of anti-Catholic bias prove pivotal in blockbuster Supreme Court case?
The Catholic dioceses hoping to run the nation's first religious charter school say anti-Catholic bias was behind many states ...
French PM’s daughter says she was abused at a boarding school, unravelling decades-old scandal
France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou’s oldest daughter revealed that she was brutally beaten by a priest at a Roman ...
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Q&A: A daughter tells her Native mother’s story — and a larger American one
Castillo: You have a deeply personal stake in this story. Your mother was a survivor of a Catholic-run boarding school in Wisconsin for Native children. You grew up listening to what you call her ...
‘Medicine River’ reckons with the legacy of Indian boarding schools — through a daughter’s eyes
In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...
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Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects
UNDATED (AP)- At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of ...
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French Guiana faces its past as Indigenous boarding school survivors seek justice
A proposed truth and reconciliation commission aims to uncover the legacy of Catholic-run schools accused of erasing ...