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Madagascar’s Catholic Bishops Fault Bill to Castrate Child Rapists as “against human dignity”

May 16, 2024

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Madagascar (CEM) have condemned a bill that proposes to have rapists of minors castrated, arguing that such a law goes “against human dignity.”

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