{"id":41266,"date":"2022-02-01T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/01\/new-zealands-catholic-church-admits-14-of-clergy-have-been-accused-of-abuse-since-1950"},"modified":"2022-02-01T14:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:51:48","slug":"new-zealands-catholic-church-admits-14-of-clergy-have-been-accused-of-abuse-since-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41266","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Catholic church admits 14% of clergy have been accused of abuse since 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures represent first time abuse allegations against the church in New Zealand have been collated in one place<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Catholic church has admitted that 14% of its diocesan clergy have been accused of abusing children and adults since 1950. <\/p>\n<p>The church released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.org.nz\/news\/media-releases\/nzcatholic-abuse-research\/\">figures<\/a> at the request of the royal commission on abuse in care, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/01\/new-zealand-child-abuse-state-care-royal-commission\">set up in 2018 <\/a>by prime minister Jacinda Ardern, who said the country needed to confront \u201ca dark chapter\u201d in its history, and later expanded it to include churches and other faith-based institutions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/01\/new-zealands-catholic-church-admits-14-of-clergy-have-been-accused-of-abuse-since-1950\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures represent first time abuse allegations against the church in New Zealand have been collated in one placeNew Zealand\u2019s Catholic church has admitted that 14% of its diocesan clergy have been accused of abusing children and adults since 1950. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2857,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,368,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41267,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41266\/revisions\/41267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}