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	Belgian Catholic Offices Raided in Sex Abuse Probe The Punch June 24, 2010 http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2010062415181148 Belgian authorities have raided the offices of the country's most senior Catholic prelate as they investigate child sex abuse claims. A spokesman for the Brussels prosecutors' office confirmed that the palace of the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels had been sealed off. Officials were searching for evidence concerning abuse allegations, he said. Belgium, BBC says is one of several countries in which a stream of abuse claims has shaken the Roman Catholic Church. An inquiry into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Belgium has been running for several years. In April, the then-bishop of the Belgian city of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, resigned after admitting that he had sexually abused a boy earlier in his career. At the time, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard said the move showed that the Church wanted to "resolutely turn a page on a very painful" topic.
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