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Louisiana church solicits prayers for pastor convicted of sexual assault – but not for his victims

Odiong’s name by Friday had been [removed](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/anthony-odiong-waco-texas-healing-chapel) from a chapel commemorating the Virgin Mary that he helped build next to St Anthony. That evidently

Trial of US priest charged with sexual assault begins with jury selection

Anthony Odiong, 57, faces five counts of sexual assault in the first degree and two such counts in the second-degree in a state courthouse in Waco, Texas, involving three women whom he met while

New Orleans archdiocese plans on removing priest’s name from chapel as his Texas sexual abuse trial looms

Anthony Odiong had reportedly raised $600,000 to build and then open [Our Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapel](https://stanthonyluling.org/olg-healing-chapel) in Luling, Louisiana, in 2020, while he was the pastor at an adjacent church

Texas jury considers sentence for Catholic priest convicted of sexual assault

Anthony of Padua church over clerical misconduct with multiple women. The Guardian later published a February 2024 investigative report on a group of women who had accused Odiong of sexual coercion, unwanted touching and abusive