'Belgian police conducted a third day of raids on Catholic church offices on Wednesday as part of an operation targeting priests suspected of child abuse. Since Monday, police have searched offices in seven of Belgium’s eight dioceses, looking for documents on priests associated with child-abuse claims, a spokesman for the Belgian Catholic church said.
The priests’ names began to come to light in 2010 when detectives raided the home of a former archbishop and, on the same day, seized the files of a church commission set up to investigate abuse complaints. That operation was part of an investigation launched after the then-Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, admitted he had sexually abused a boy.'
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