the video that the pope showed

On the walls of the Vatican, resounding testimonies echoed Thursday. Five voices silenced by the clergy for many years were collected in a video that opened Thursday the summit against pedophilia in the church called by Pope Francis, TN reported.

In the video, a Latin American man, an African woman, and three other men from Eastern Europe, Asia, and the United States recounted their experiences. The names of the victims were not revealed, nor were the pictures. There are five testimonials with which they have tried to reflect a situation that has affected thousands of people around the world.

"The first thing they did was treat me as a liar", is one of the denunciations heard by the 190 representatives of the Catholic hierarchy present at the meeting. "They turned me over and said that I and others were enemies of the Church."lamented one of the victims, the man from Latin America.

"I know that they are discussing how to finish, start over, and repair all these damages First, no more false and forbidden requests for forgiveness will work, the victims must be believed, respected, cared for and repaired." repair the victims, you have to be with them, you have to believe them, you have to accompany them, "he said.

For her part, the African woman told that since the age of fifteen, she was forced to have bad with a priest.

"I was pregnant three times and three times, he had me abort, simply because he did not want a condom or contraceptive method." At first, I had so much confidence in him that he did not know that he could mistreat me, I was afraid of him.I refused to make love, he beat me " we heard in the hall where the bishops meet.

In another testimony, a 53-year-old Eastern European priest recounted that at the seminary a superior had gone to bed and touched him. He pointed out that what hurt him deeply was that after many years he had talked to a bishop about it. Not only did he not answer him, but he was then badaulted.