Church calls Mexican pedophilia accuser extortionist
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The Catholic Church in Mexico   accused a former altar boy on Thursday of attempting extortion   by filing a lawsuit charging U.S. and Mexican church officials   allowed a priest accused of sex abuse to escape justice.
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MEXICO CITY -- A special prosecutor is accusing Luis Echeverria, Mexico's former president, of "harming humanity" by allegedly ordering government thugs to kill protesters during a 1971 demonstration, according to case files released to a Mexican freedom of information group.
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A news report that a cardinal threatened doctors who performed an abortion with excommunication sparked controversy Wednesday and a denial from the prelate.
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The Rev. Joseph Dantica fled to the United States nearly a month ago, seeking asylum after gangs in his neighborhood ransacked his church and threatened to kill him.
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MEXICO CITY - A victims' group said yesterday that newly released documents support its claim that Mexico's most prominent cardinal knew a Mexican priest was suspected of molesting children but transferred him to the United States anyway.
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Jehovah's Witness who admitted sex attacks on children, including a baby, is given rehabilitation order.
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Amnesty international says human rights are systematically abused by authorities in Mexico.
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Cardinal Norberto Rivera, Mexico's most senior Roman Catholic clergyman, will be questioned by lawyers and may have to appear in a U.S. court over accusations he protected a priest wanted for sexually abusing children, Rivera's spokesman said on Tuesday.
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U.S. lawyers for a former altar boy plan to grill Mexico's top Roman Catholic clergyman next month as part of an effort to sue him in a California court over claims he protected a suspected pedophile priest.
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MEXICO CITY -- Ines Fernandez Ortega was with her four children, drying meat on her patio, when three soldiers entered her home in a small indigenous village in southern Guerrero state. They accused her of stealing the meat.
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A Lutheran congregation is grappling with how to deal with a convicted sex offender who says his church attendance is an important step toward rehabilitation.
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Two police officers have been burned alive by a mob of furious residents after the officers were mistaken for child kidnappers. The crowd, angered by recent kidnappings at a school in Mexico Cityâs south
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Some Mexican churches are using state-of-the-art technology developed by Israeli electronic warfare experts to silence cell phones that ring during mass, church officials said on Tuesday.
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A church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant from Mexico and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 for the city police presence during a weekend protest, officials said.
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Roman Catholic priest who drew attention two years ago when he took to his Brooklyn pulpit to deny sexual abuse accusations was indicted yesterday on charges of abusing an 11-year-old altar boy the same year.
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By Sam Hodges, The Dallas Morning News  Jun. 6--The Baptist General Convention of Texas says it's stepping up the fight against clergy sexual misconduct, including posting on its Web site the names of convicted sex offenders known to have worked in Texas Baptist churches.
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A new Catholic migrant outreach center named for former Diocese of Tucson Bishop Manuel D. Moreno is drawing protests from a support group for victims of clergy abuse.