Archbishop Justin Welby resigns after abuse report exposes cover-up dating back to 1982. The British evangelical lay leader John Smyth beat boys at a Christian camp and a boarding school in the ...

Justin Welby has told the BBC he forgives a serial abuser at the heart of a scandal that led to his resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury. In his first interview since quitting in November last ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of lying after he claimed to be unaware of the severity of child abuse by evangelical Christian John Smyth. Smyth, a barrister who ran Christian youth ...

John Smyth was a barrister and an evangelical Christian, who held several leadership roles in the Iwerne Trust in the 1970s and 1980s. The Trust was a charity that organised summer camps for young ...

Years earlier, I had been told that John Smyth, the glamorous, upright Christian barrister I’d known from a distance since I was a child, had committed acts of unimaginable brutality against ...

Thank you for joining us. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned, days after a damning report into prolific child abuser John Smyth – last week Welby said he wouldn't resign.

The Diocese of London has withdrawn permission to officiate (PTO) from three clergy pending an investigation into their ...

A friend of murdered John Smyth has today told of his devastation at the way he died. And Gordon Lapsley said he was ...

Mark Stibbe, who was abused by John Smyth QC in the 1980s, told BBC Newsnight on Monday that Justin Welby’s position was “untenable” after an independent review published last week concluded ...