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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Adventist and Adventist-derived movements Tomar, Santarém, Portugal · 2019

Portugal: former Adventist pastor convicted on 24 counts of sexual abuse

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Seventh-day Adventist pastor

Organization

Seventh-day Adventist Church

Spiritual nexus

The pastor held ordained clerical authority in the Adventist congregation at Tomar; details of victim relationship beyond congregant status are not further specified in the source located.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2019-01-01 · conviction

    Portuguese court. A former Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Tomar, Santarém, was convicted on 24 counts of sexual abuse.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral authority over congregants

Primary record

Sources

institutional reporting reference Cross-referenced summary entry, 'Portugal: former Adventist pastor convicted on 24 counts', 2019.

Brief record of the Tomar Adventist pastor's conviction; a fuller Portuguese-language primary source should be sought to expand this record.

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