Scandals

Japan’s leader grilled in parliament over widening fundraising scandal, link to Unification Church
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TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and several other key Cupboard ministers have been grilled by opposition lawmakers in parliament on Friday over a widening fundraising scandal and an alleged connection to the Unification Church which threaten to additional drag down the federal government’s sagging recognition. Help scores for Kishida’s authorities have fallen under … Read more

Closing arguments in Vatican trial seek to expose problems in the city state’s legal system
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VATICAN CITY — Legal professionals for a once-powerful cardinal accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoner to their fully shattered concept” on Wednesday within the newest spherical of closing arguments of a trial that has raised elementary questions in regards to the rule of regulation within the metropolis state. Regardless of makes an attempt to demonize … Read more

A French bishop is accused of attempted rape in latest scandal to hit Catholic Church in France
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PARIS — A French bishop has been given a preliminary cost of trying to rape an grownup man a decade in the past, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated Monday. It’s the newest of a rising variety of accusations of sexual abuse by clergy in France. The Bishops’ Convention of France stated the accused bishop, Georges … Read more

Ben Dunne, an Irish supermarket heir who survived an IRA kidnapping and a scandal, dies at 74
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Ben Dunne, an Irish supermarket heir who survived an IRA kidnapping and a scandal, dies at 74

An Irish businessman who survived a kidnapping by the IRA and triggered a scandal that shook Eire’s politics has died ByThe Related Press November 19, 2023, 12:16 PM LONDON — Ben Dunne, an Irish enterprise tycoon who survived a kidnapping by the IRA and later triggered a scandal that shook the comfortable world of Eire’s … Read more

Japanese vice minister resigns over tax scandal in another setback for Kishida’s unpopular Cabinet
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Japanese vice minister resigns over tax scandal in another setback for Kishida's unpopular Cabinet

TOKYO — A Japanese vice finance minister stepped down on Monday, amid criticism from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cupboard, after admitting his firm’s repeated failures to pay taxes, an extra setback to Kishida’s unpopular authorities. Deputy Finance Minister Kenji Kanda, in command of authorities bonds and financial coverage, is the third member of Kishida’s Cupboard … Read more

Priest kicked out of Jesuits for alleged abuse of women welcomed into Slovenia diocese
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Priest kicked out of Jesuits for alleged abuse of women welcomed into Slovenia diocese

ROME — A well-known priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, religious and psychological abuse of ladies has been accepted right into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the most recent twist in a case that has implicated the pope and laid naked the boundaries of the Vatican’s in-house … Read more