Latest news Reformed Church commissions study on internal abuse
The Protestant Reformed Church of Switzerland is commissioning a scientific study to investigate sexual and spiritual abuse in the church. On Monday, the church parliament commissioned the church council to carry out such a study.
03.11.2025, 16:03
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The synod approved a cost ceiling of CHF 250,000 for this project, as church media spokesperson Stephan Jütte announced on the fringes of the fall synod in response to a question. The study should be available by the end of 2027.
Following this decision, sexual and spiritual abuse will also be investigated in the Protestant Reformed Church of Switzerland (EKS). In September 2023, a study by the University of Zurich showed that there have been over a thousand cases of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Switzerland since the middle of the 20th century.
In addition, a study by the Reformed Church in Germany revealed that abuse was also committed within this church. EKS President Rita Famos subsequently said that she had also heard of many cases in the Swiss Reformed Church.
