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Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley said speech by the outgoing head of the Church of England was disturbing and disrespectful to Church abuse survivors

Justin Welby announced in a statement on November 12 that he had decided to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury.

The office of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, says he will wrap up his official duties in early January amid an abuse scandal in the Church of England

The former Communards musician, who now practices as a Church of England priest, has admitted he might not fare well on a restricted diet of beans and rice

After Justin Welby’s resignation and the John Smyth abuse scandal, critics say a reckoning can no longer be avoided

The Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley has spoken out against the culture of silence in the Church of England

Rocky Leanders, then 15, was beaten with wooden paddle by Smyth at camp where boys were made to swim naked

Justin Welby resigned as archbishop of Canterbury following a damning report about a prolific child abuser in the Church of England. The report into decades of abuse of more than 100 boys perpetrated by the barrister John Smyth QC in the UK, South Africa and Zimbabwe detailed the Church of…

Campaigner warns of ‘many other abusers’ within Church of England after damning reporting into John Smyth