ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Wednesday confirmed that a church trial against a famous ex-Jesuit priest accused of spiritual and sexual abuse of women is ongoing and defended the secrecy of the proceedings as necessary to guarantee the process. An Italian blog reported Monday that an acquittal verdict had been reached in the case […]

Alberta’s government has imposed a raft of changes on K-12 schools it says are needed to keep “ideology” and “pornography” out of classrooms. The new rules also appear to have blocked child abuse prevention programming and dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ anti-discrmination educators. Beginning in the 2025 school year, schools were required to have any instruction materials related […]

The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. The […]

Nouha Ishaq said when she first started her job preparing food at Simon Fraser University in 2005, coming into work didn’t feel like a fight. But about five years ago, Ishaq said, the relationship between the campus’s approximately 200 food service workers and their more senior colleagues started to sour. She said she and her […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of […]