A Christian MP has told Premier's she is "absolutely shocked" by a report which concluded staff at an abortion clinic in Kent felt pressured to ensure patients Fiona Bruce demanded the Health Minist...
A convicted murderer who absconded from an open prison has been detained after he was spotted in a church. Sussex Police released a CCTV image of Jeremy Brabrooke at St Faith's Church in Havant, Hamp...
A convicted murderer who absconded from an open prison has been spotted in a church. Sussex Police have released a CCTV image of Jeremy Brabrooke at St Faith's Church in Havant, Hampshire. The 56-yea...
Around a fifth of all boys at a children's home in Northern Ireland were victims of sexual or physical abuse, according to a public inquiry. A former senior policeman has said abuse at Rubane House i...
A Catholic priest accused of a historical sex offence has been arrested in Kosovo after a five-year police hunt. Father Laurence Soper, in his mid-70s, was wanted on a European Arrest Warrant over an...
The way top Church of England clergy are trained to handle allegations of sexual abuse must change radically to ensure victims are not ignored or intimidated, a According to the Guardian, Sarah Mulla...
A Christian safeguarding expert has said the national inquiry into child abuse is "at an all-time low" after its top two lawyers both resigned. Justin Humphreys, from the Churches Child Protection Ad...
The national inquiry into how the Church of England, the Church in Wales and other bodies dealt with the sexual abuse of children is going to be scaled back, it The results of a review by chairwoman ...
Three schools and children homes run by the Church of Scotland are among more than 100 locations to be investigated under a national abuse inquiry, its chairwom Ballikinrain School in Stirling, Geils...
The Anglican Church will be scrutinised to establish whether a "culture of secrecy" existed, allowing perpetrators of sexual abuse to go unchallenged in their c The announcement was made by the publi...
The chair of a major independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse has warned that bishops and other faith leaders will face 'difficult' questions. Judge Lowell Goddard has opened the invest...
An abuse survivor is suing a Catholic Church sect and a local authority after he was assaulted by a monk at a residential school. Michael Murphy, known as Brother Benedict or Brother Ben, abused chil...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been urged to "break his silence" over the alleged "wrongdoings" by the Church of England relating to abuse. Survivors, whistle-blowers, legal experts, clergy and cam...
A Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse has been discovered dead on the day he was due to report to police. The allegations relate to Fr Ernest Sands when he was a teacher in an Upholla...
A man whose conviction over serious sexual offences prompted outrage has had his sentence slightly increased - due to a technicality. A man whose conviction over serious sexual offences prompted outr...
The Catholic church has been accused of seeing abuse victims as "third class citizens", by a man who recalled his time as a frightened schoolboy allegedly force The alleged victim told how he was abu...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has told the child sex abuse inquiry that abusers can "never be trusted again". The Most Rev Justin Welby said that while people may be forgiven, this would not...
A new report by the independent body set up to combat clerical abuse has claimed convicted paedophiles could be infiltrating churches because management are fai Justin Humphreys, Head of Safeguarding...
A study by University College London found the influence of faith schools on grades was not significant once a child reached A-Levels but that being from a UCL's Institute of Education used a sa...
Running regular philosophy sessions with their primary school students could help to improve their grades and their interpersonal skills, according to a new stu It's after research with 3,000 childre...
