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RELIGION February 22, 2019

A look at Nigeria's top 2 presidential contenders

Africa's most populous country goes to the polls on Saturday to decide whether President Muhammadu Buhari deserves a second term.

RELIGION February 22, 2019

Church of England says Sunday services no longer mandatory

The Church of England has acknowledged the reality of shrinking congregations and overworked priests and lifted a 400-year-old rule requiring that all churches hold services every Sunday.

RELIGION February 22, 2019

Vatican summit on sex abuse focuses calls for accountability

Cardinals attending Pope Francis' summit on preventing clergy sex abuse have called for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to punish bishops and religious superiors who fail to protect their flocks from predator priests.

RELIGION February 22, 2019

Muslim rebel commanders transform into Philippine officials

Some of the fiercest Muslim rebel commanders in the southern Philippines are in Manila to be sworn in as administrators of a new Muslim autonomy region in a delicate milestone to settle one of Asia's longest-raging rebellions.

RELIGION February 22, 2019

French bishops agree to compensation for sex abuse victims

A French Catholic Church official says the country's bishops have "agreed in principle" to provide financial compensation to sex abuse victims whose cases are too old to be taken to court.

RELIGION February 21, 2019

Abuse victims: Italian law helps bishops dodge investigation

U.S. and Italian advocates for victims of pedophile priests are pressing for Italy to overhaul legislation that allows bishops to dodge accountability for predator clergy in the predominantly Roman Catholic country where the church wields considerable political influence.

Roman Catholic February 21, 2019

Pope opens up summit on sexual abuse as victims demand change: 'Listen to the cry of the young'

Pope Francis warned senior Catholic officials that the faithful are calling for concrete action, not just words of condemnation, as he opened the first ever聽landmark sex abuse prevention summit Thursday at the Vatican. The Holy Father and the bishops gathered from around the world and heard victims share testimonies of searing emotional pain from the abuse.

RELIGION February 21, 2019

A global look at the Catholic Church's sex abuse problem

Pope Francis' high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit is meant to call attention to the crisis as a global problem that requires a global response.

RELIGION February 21, 2019

Pope opens sex abuse summit amid outcry from survivors

Pope Francis has opened a high-level summit of church leaders on preventing clergy sex abuse, hoping to impress on bishops from around the world that the problem is global and requires a global response.

RELIGION February 21, 2019

The Latest: Pope demands bishops act now to end sex abuse

The Latest on the Vatican's conference on dealing with sex abuse by priests (all times local): 9:20 a.m.