abbé

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The Abbé Pierre Foundation is to be retitled, while the board of Emmaus France is to vote on removing the priest’s name from its logo.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

Emmaus said it had set up a confidential system for gathering testimonies from people who had experienced or witnessed "unacceptable behaviour" by Abbé Pierre and invited them to come forward.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

Abbé Trudon Keshilemba, president of a group of civil society organisations in Kamako, said: "The Congolese end up occupying whole villages in Angola, and the Angolans feel that they will disappear."

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2023

“They say, ‘I am almost invisible, I feel invisible,’” Christophe Robert, the executive director of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, a housing advocacy organization, said of his conversations with homeless people.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022

She associated with John Wilkes, and afterwards with the Abbé Raynal, who writ an absurd, pompous eulogy on "the Lady who has been so celebrated as the Correspondent of Mr. Sterne."

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer