Archive for the ‘Exploitation’ Category
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 |
At a news conference, attorneys for a victim of a Chicago pedophile priest will disclose and discuss a new civil child sexual abuse and cover up lawsuit against the cleric and his superiors in the Greek Orthodox church. The victims’ attorneys, who have several other pending child molestation cases against Chicago predators, and members of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
In the late 1970s, a then teenaged altar boy was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Rev. Nicholas E. Katinas at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Olympia Fields, IL. Katinas was pastor there from 1969 until 1978, when his superiors transferred him to a Dallas church where he worked for 28 years. He faces at least four civil lawsuits from victims he molested in the 1980s in Texas.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008 |
Leon Leyson, the youngest survivor on Schindler’s List, will speak at the Riviera Country Club, located at 1250 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades 90272 on Tuesday, September 9th, 6:30 pm. The event will be hosted by Chabad of Pacific Palisades in honor of the community’s Holocaust survivors. Twelve survivors are to attend Tuesday evening’s event. They will be introduced and honored during a very special presentation.
“These twelve people need to be both recognized and honored. They remind us of what they had to endure for being Jews and that such a horrific tragedy once occurred in a modern world,” says Rabbi Zushe Cunin, Executive Director of Chabad of the Pacific Palisades.
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008 |
The exploitation of children has unfortunately become a “growth industry,” according to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, but the Bureau is “working every day to find and stop those who prey on our children.”
Speaking recently at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center Crimes Against Children Conference, Mueller noted how pervasive these crimes have become. “In just the past decade, we have moved from lone predators with limited reach to global communities of pedophiles on the Internet,” he said. “We have moved from back-alley bookstores to criminal enterprises that treat children as merely another commodity for sale in the global marketplace. We have moved from videos in plain brown packages to encrypted websites, flash drives, and cell phones capable of storing thousands of images.”
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 |
A survey of 779 U.S. Christian women conducted by NationalChristianPoll.com shows more than a quarter personally experienced sexually inappropriate behavior, and one-fourth who experienced it said it happened in a church or ministry setting.
The survey, commissioned by GiftedForLeadership.com and Your Church magazine, two media ministries of Christianity Today International, was designed to capture the range and extent to which women encounter unwelcome, gender-based behaviors by male colleagues, in the workplace or within a church or ministry setting. The most commonly reported inappropriate behaviors: sexual advances, touching or sexual contact, suggestive jokes, glances with sexual overtones, and demeaning comments.
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 |
In the wake of disturbing news about higher HIV rates in the United States, people living with HIV and allies are calling for a national AIDS strategy that confronts the homophobia, violence and bias at the heart of the U.S. epidemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the new figures released on Saturday, August 2 reflect a “stable” epidemic, albeit one with a higher level of annual infections than previously estimated. However, the data reveal an ongoing and persistent increase in rates of infection among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), many of whom are Black and/or Latino.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008 |
Today, over two hundred years after John Newton struggled alongside William Wilberforce to bring an end to the African slave trade, three times as many people around the world are living as slaves. When the first abolition bill passed in 1807, four million people were enslaved; today the number is estimated at twelve million. In the new biography, Once Blind (Authentic), author Kay Marshall Strom skillfully employs the legacy of John Newton to call attention to 21st-century slavery throughout the world.
After years of research into the former slave ship captain’s letters, treatises, journals, and church archives, Strom has penned a riveting biographical narrative of Newton, a broken and desperate man whose stirring hymn, “Amazing Grace,” has testified to millions of his transformation from the worst of the worst to a ringing voice for God. (more…)
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