Catholic groups urge action against child pornography in Europe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In December, the European Union's governing commission approved a Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act for enforcement across the 27 member-states in response to accelerated digitization during the coronavirus pandemic.
49% : The French lay Catholic spoke as the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union, representing over a thousand bishops, published a statement on current EU efforts to combat online crime.
31% : The European Union is the global center of online child sexual abuse, with 90 percent of all websites hosted in its territory, according to a 2020 report by Ylva Johansson, EU commissioner for home affairs.
30% : OXFORD, United Kingdom -- Catholic campaigners have demanded action to curb growing online pornography and child abuse in the European Union, as the bloc's Catholic bishops welcomed new legislative proposals but also urged tighter controls.

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