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Father kills 4, including 3 of his daughters, before shooting himself at Sacramento-area church

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Five people are dead, including three children, after a man opened fire inside a Sacramento-area church Monday night before turning the gun on himself.

Tribune News Service · Mar 1, 2022

5 dead, including 3 children, in Sacramento County church shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man killed four people, including three of his children, before turning the gun on himself inside a church in the Sacramento suburbs on Monday evening, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 1, 2022

5 dead, including 3 children, in Sacramento County church shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man killed four people, including three of his children, before turning the gun on himself inside a church in the Sacramento suburbs on Monday evening, authorities said.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 1, 2022

Spain's Church seeks to add credence to enquiry of alleged child abuse

Spain's Catholic Church sought to give more credence to an investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of minors, saying on Tuesday a law firm would coordinate and audit the effort, in a move a victims' group has already dismissed as a "smoke screen".

Reuters · Feb 22, 2022

Bishops in Spain ask lawyers to audit their sex abuse record

Spain's Roman Catholic bishops have asked a private law firm to investigate past and present sexual abuse committed by clergy, members of religious orders and others associated with the church

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2022

Shake-up plan puts 14 Perthshire church buildings under threat of closure

Presbytery members being asked by Church of Scotland for their views on sharing resources

Daily Record · Feb 18, 2022

Spain investigating 68 allegations of child abuse by Catholic clergy, staff

Spanish prosecutors are investigating 68 cases of alleged sexual abuse of minors by Catholic church staff, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday in the first release of official data about such cases.

Reuters · Feb 16, 2022

Pressure groups demand Church in Italy submit to external sexual abuse inquiry

Catholic groups on Tuesday accused Italy's Church of an "institutional failure" to confront clergy sexual abuse, and demanded an independent national inquiry mirroring ones conducted in France and Germany.

Reuters · Feb 15, 2022

Vicar’s child abuse ‘could have been stopped if clergy had listened to victims’

The Rev Graham Gregory, who had a 30-year career in the church, was jailed for indecently assaulting children.

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2022

Catholic priest quits after thousands of baptisms ruled invalid because of wrong words

Thousand of people are to be contacted by their church in Phoenix, Arizona, in the US, after it was found Father Andrew Arango mistakenly used the wrong phrasing for 25 years

Daily Mirror · Feb 15, 2022