Denmark's Catholic Church will launch an investigation next week into claims of clerical abuse dating back several decades, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The move comes after the church came under pressure from media and human rights groups to revisit allegations of sexual abuse that had not been reported to police.
Claims that priests sexually abused children at Catholic institutions have swept across Europe, including in the small Catholic communities in the Nordic countries, which are predominantly Lutheran.
Denmark's Catholic Bishop Czeslaw Kozon was strongly criticized earlier this month after telling a Danish newspaper that the church was …
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