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Presbytery members being asked by Church of Scotland for their views on sharing resources

Spanish prosecutors are investigating 68 cases of alleged sexual abuse of minors by Catholic church staff, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday in the first release of official data about such cases.

Catholic groups on Tuesday accused Italy's Church of an "institutional failure" to confront clergy sexual abuse, and demanded an independent national inquiry mirroring ones conducted in France and Germany.

The Rev Graham Gregory, who had a 30-year career in the church, was jailed for indecently assaulting children.

Thousand of people are to be contacted by their church in Phoenix, Arizona, in the US, after it was found Father Andrew Arango mistakenly used the wrong phrasing for 25 years

From Markowski v. BYU, decided yesterday by Judge Jill Parrish (D. Utah): The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("the Church") is a religious organization with its headquarters in Utah. One of the Church's "most recognized characteristics" is its missionary program. Church members, typically under the age of twenty-five,…

The northern Spanish region of Navarre published a report on Friday identifying 52 cases of alleged sexual abuse of minors in Catholic institutions over seven decades, in one of Spain's first official investigations into Church abuses.

At a trial under way in Sicily, a 28-year-old Italian is seeking justice against a man he accuses of forcing him to perform sex acts before going on to become a priest.

A week-long inquiry is examining abuse in state care and faith-based institutions

Bishop Nolan has been named as the new Archbishop of Glasgow, succeeding Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who died last year.

A New Zealand inquiry on Wednesday heard harrowing accounts from people who were abused as children while they were under the care of the Catholic Church, one of whom said he was shown a corpse in a hospital morgue by a priest to keep him quiet.