Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Justin Welby had come under growing pressure to stand down over his “failures” to alert authorities about John Smyth QC’s ...

A senior bishop has called for Justin Welby to resign as the Archbishop of Canterbury following a damning report into a barrister who is thought to have been the most prolific serial abuser to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Justin Welby’s automatic peerage may be in doubt in the wake of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to step down from his role ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaking to Sky News on Sir Trevor Phillips Sunday show, Bishop Hartley has raised the stakes further, claiming that fellow ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an apology over his final speech in the House of Lords after leading figures in the Church accused him of making light of serious safeguarding failures in the ...

Justin Welby has been condemned by survivors and campaigners for saying he would forgive serial Church of England abuser John Smyth if he were still alive. The former archbishop of Canterbury also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Smyth physically, sexually and psychologically abused as many as 130 boys and young men at Christian summer camps in England ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, has resigned over his handling of a sex abuse scandal. An investigation found that Justin Welby failed to inform authorities ...

The bishop who forced Justin Welby to resign over his handling of the John Smyth abuse case has warned that too many senior clerics are putting their own job prospects above tackling scandals in the ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, resigned "in sorrow" on Tuesday, saying he had failed to ensure a proper investigation into ...