Clemens August Graf von Galen: The International Church Victims Commission

Sunday, 3 December 2017

The International Church Victims Commission

The International Church Victims Commission is an independent advisory body gathering and presenting evidence about crimes and unethical and illegal practices by churches and other religious institutions that have been committed against the victims and targets of individual church representatives and by legal entities and interest groups within the churches.

The International Church Victims Commission is also a portal to publication, mediation, legal and moral reconciliation as well as a gateway to independent legal representation by dedicated law firms on a no win no fee basis, specialising in church and white collar crimes.

We also work closely with international law enforcement and security agencies and the prosecution services, and encourage victims to report crimes and testify, and/or to pursue justice and the truth in peaceful but efficient law in all ways legally and creatively that are available.

The International Church Victims Commission is also welcoming the second, third and consecutive generations of previously unacknowledged and silenced children of church hierarchy to connect with each other and with partners in dialogue, and seek to demand from the churches like Vatican, Anglican and Lutheran to take up their long overdue responsibility.

In many cases, the churches have failed to approach their victims and targets voluntarily to apologise that they have been from official records, albeit not from secret records, omitted and to compensate them for the slander, murderous attempts, cover ups and for crimes that have been committed against the secret families of church officials often over decades.

The International Church Victims Commission seeks to lend a voice to the voiceless and silenced as an independent mediator, advisor, educator, advocate and healer, to give sustainable support and to nurture dialogue and healing and to facilitate change to make the churches face up to their responsibility by offering ways of practical and moral support to the families, wherever this has been sabotaged or actively prevented.

Some crimes are almost unspeakable and have been happening on a vast scale by whole branches and religious orders that were in reality secretly fascist networks and dangerous criminal or, at least, illegal associations intertwined with organised crime under abuse of authority, monopoly and immunity.

Many secret children of church officials, especially of the higher and highest ranks, have only been told of their real father or grandfather (or mother for that matter, as nuns also gave secretly birth), shortly before or upon the death of their grand/parent and were often sworn to secrecy but have been subjected to maltreatment and threats all their lives, mostly not knowing, why bad things happened to them, and it affected in a way their sense of identity, as they were manipulated and lied to from birth.

Contact: Sigrid Countess von Galen, Chair

sigridvongalen@gmail.com