{"id":7184,"date":"2010-06-24T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:57:57","slug":"belgium-police-raid-catholic-church-headquarters-and-bishops-home-54647184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/belgium-police-raid-catholic-church-headquarters-and-bishops-home-54647184\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium police raid Catholic Church headquarters and bishops home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgium police have raided the headquarters of the Belgian Catholic Church and the home of the recently retired Archbishop Godfried Danneels as part of a suspected child sex-abuse investigation.<\/h1>\n

\"\"This is the latest of a series of accusations which the Roman Catholic Church must deal with that coincided with a meeting of bishops which the Vatican’s ambassador to Belgium was also present at.<\/h2>\n

A spokesman for Brussels prosecutors told AFP “Within the context of a recent investigation, prosecutors have been informed of accusations denouncing abuse of minors committed by a certain number of Church figures,”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Belgium police were witnessed carrying dozens of boxes from Godfried Danneels office and St. Rombout Cathedral in Mechlin, Northern Brussels.<\/p>\n

An estimated 30 officers took part in the operation which Jean-Marc Meilleur describes as a raid to find any data to back up the claims against the former archbishop.<\/p>\n

On April 26, Belgium’s longest-serving bishop, Roger Vangheluwe, resigned after admitting to having sexually abused a young boy.<\/p>\n

Private Flemish TV channel VTM reported that Godfried Danneels was also brought to the site of the investigations.<\/p>\n

It was also reported that the data held by the independent commission was expected to have been passed over to police officials, but this was not the case as the investigation had gone very public.<\/p>\n

Belgium\u2019s Roman Catholic Church had been faced with some of the worst Pedophilia accusations which the Vatican faced in April where it was alleged that Pope Benedict XVI, had covered up child abuse by priests before he was chosen as the Pope.<\/p>\n

Another major b\u015fow for the Vatican was when the longest serving bishop, Roger Vangheluwe,73, had resigned from his position after admitting to sexually abusing a young boy for several years.<\/p>\n

Dirk Deville a retired priest has also said that hundreds of cases sexual abuse had been reported to authorities as far back as the 1990\u2019s but only a small proportion came to Danneels’ attention in his 20 years at his position.<\/p>\n

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