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DR Congo: Victims of alleged paedophile priest still waiting for justice

By France24
27 September 2022   |   4:54 am
Although Pope Francis has made the fight against paedophilia in the Catholic Church one of his priorities, this call is not always heard. Our correspondents in DR Congo met several men who claim to have been sexually abused by a Slovenian priest in the 1990s in the village of Mooto.

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