Vatican removes deputy bishop in Peru after sex abuse allegations


  • World
  • Saturday, 21 Sep 2013

LIMA (Reuters) - The Vatican, under Pope Francis' "zero-tolerance" policy for paedophile priests, removed an auxiliary bishop from his post in a Peruvian province because of allegations he sexually abused children, a bishop said on Friday.

Luis Bambaren, the former president of Peru's bishops' conference and bishop emeritus of Chimbote, told local media that Gabino Miranda was dismissed as auxiliary bishop in the dioceses of Ayacucho, a poor Andean region in southern Peru, after he was accused of having sexual relations with minors.

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