Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
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The Silence

FRONTLINE examines a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story -- decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska. Through candid interviews with survivors, this FRONTLINE report focuses on the abuse by a number of men who worked for the Church along Alaska's far west coast in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All told, they would leave behind a trail of hundreds of claims of abuse, making this one of the hardest hit regions in the country.

This show will air tonight(April 19th at 9 P.M.)on your local PBS station



Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-silence/#ixzz1JyxPfnck



Methodists donate $50,000 in atonement for historical wrong - The Denver Post

Col. John M. Chivington, a Methodist minister, stood by his actions decades after leading the 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek, but the United Methodist Church is still formally repenting for him.

Read more: Methodists donate $50,000 in atonement for historical wrong - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17552891#ixzz1GDNglbqv
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