A self-styled “son of the soil” from rural southwest France, François Bayrou ... several high-profile child-abuse scandals involving the French Catholic Church. Read moreFrance reels ...

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Bétharram private school in south-west France is continuing. Meanwhile Mediapart can reveal that sixteen victims of sexual ...

The Congregation of the Fathers of Bétharram has acknowledged responsibility in widespread sexual abuse at a Catholic ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has vowed to support an investigation into decades of alleged abuse at a Catholic school ... Esquerre told France 3 in November that he had received new ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou, head of France’s fragile government, found himself caught up in the Church’s sexual abuse ...

A judicial investigation into charges of rape and sexual assault at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram school in southwestern France was opened ... and sexual abuse at the Catholic boarding school ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou is fighting allegations that he ignored reports of the widespread sexual abuse of minors at a Catholic boarding school in southwestern Béarn ... fragile minority ...

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The Vatican has launched a task force encouraging donations in an effort to tackle deepening financial woes hampered by payments and legal costs surrounding sexual abuse scandals and a failed ...