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The four-day anti-abuse summit that began today at the Vatican had a video in its initial session with testimonies of five victims of abuse who have harshly accused the Church: "In some cases they became the "soul killers" they raised.

The first testimony published before Pope Francis and the 190 participants was that of a Latin American who acknowledged that "the consequences are obvious, in all their aspects, and remain throughout life".

"The first thing they did was to treat me as a liar, to turn my back on me and to say that I and others were enemies of the Church," lamented the abused man. telling the ecclesiastical reaction to his business.

"The victims must be believed, respected, cared for and repaired, they must be repaired, we must be with them, we must believe them, we must accompany them," he complains. "You are the doctors of souls, and yet, with a few exceptions, they have become, in some cases, the murderers of souls, the murderers of faith … What a frightening contradiction," he told bishops and Cardinals present.

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"I ask you to cooperate with the law, with special care for the victims, we can not continue with this crime, to conceal this scourge of badual abuse in the Church," he said. he's complaining.

The second testimony was that of an African woman, who recalled that she had had bad with a priest since the age of fifteen.

"It lasted thirteen years in a row, I was pregnant three times, he had an abortion three times, just because he did not want a condom or contraceptive method," he said. Is he complaining?

"I was scared of him and every time I refused to sleep with him, he hit me, he beat me and, since I totally depended on him financially, I suffered from all his humiliations," he said. lamented.

"He gave me everything I wanted when I accepted bad, otherwise he would hit me"; he raised to the eyes of 114 Presidents of Episcopal Conferences and 80 other high-ranking religious around the world.

The third testimony is that of a man from Eastern Europe who asked clergy to "listen to these people, to learn to listen to people who speak".

Then a man from the United States recognized the "pain" he still feels from abuse. "I still have pain, my parents still carry the pain of dysfunction, betrayal, manipulation that this nasty man, who was our Catholic priest at the time, did to my family and to me "It hurt and what I have with me today," he lamented.

"I have been badually harbaded for over a hundred times, and this badual harbadment has created trauma and memories throughout my life," admitted the fifth witness testimony of an Asian man in front of the camera.

"It's hard to live one's life, it's hard to be with people, connect with them, if they want to save the church, we have to act together and make sure that the guilty give up, "he said.