Reports of spiritual abuse at one of the locations in England led to YWAM England taking action and shutting it down, the statement confirmed. “Our policy is to report allegations to the LADO ...

(RNS) — Concerns about spiritual abuse have become common in recent years — at churches large and small — following the fall of megachurch pastors like Mark Driscoll, of the now-disbanded ...

A former nun claims that Marko Ivan Rupnik used his “psycho-spiritual” control over her ... and bullied her into staying silent about the abuse. The former nun also claimed Rupnik had asked ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Code of Canon Law must more directly address the frequent spiritual manipulation and abuse of office wrought by members of the church to solicit sex, the Vatican’s doct ...

cultural and spiritual abuse. The social abuse chapter included direct quotes from domestic violence victims, describing how perpetrators behaved towards them, such as “put down my physical ...

Back then, neither woman had the vocabulary or understanding of spiritual abuse to truly understand what had happened. “Abuse is so horrible, but our story is about hope, about beauty coming out ...

Accusations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of adult women over a 30-year period have led to the expulsion of prominent Slovenian Jesuit priest Marko Ivan Rupnik, accused of abusing ...

ROME, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic religious order of Jesuits said on Tuesday that accusations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against a prominent member of the order were ...

ROME, June 15 (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Jesuit order said on Thursday it had expelled Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, an internationally-known religious artist accused of sexual, psychological and ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 26 - Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify “spiritual abuse” as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use ...