(Carlos Valdez and Paola Flores, AP) Catholic
devotees in Bolivia prepared for one of the country’s biggest religious
celebrations this weekend at a time when the church in this Andean
country has been rocked by an increasing number of sex abuse scandals. The
faithful who were gearing up for the Jesus of the Great Power festival
Saturday insisted that cases of abuse that have come to light in recent
weeks would not affect the folk-religious festival in La Paz, which
fuses together Catholic and local Indigenous traditions. (...)
