The Church of England made a six-figure pay-off to a priest assessed as a potential risk to children and young people, a BBC investigation has found. Canon Andrew Hindley - who worked in Blackburn ...

A former priest accused of abusing members of a "cult-like" church group he led has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women. Chris Brain, 68, was head of the Nine O'Clock ...

The Scottish Episcopal Church says grounds for a risk assessment of Anne Dyer were considered before she returned from ...

A parish priest has described tombs being vandalised twice in the space of a month in a church graveyard as "very shocking". Tomasz Maziarz from the Church of Sacred Heart of Jesus & St Cuthbert in ...

A woman who says she was sexually abused as a child by a priest says it is "absolutely outrageous" her alleged abuser was later praised by the man now leading the Church of England. Kate – not her ...

A former Catholic priest in Jersey has been found guilty of three counts of gross indecency with a child. Piotr Antoni Glas's offences occurred between 2004 and 2007 while he was a priest in the ...

A Church of England priest at the centre of a sexual abuse case was twice reappointed to a senior role in his diocese during the Archbishop of York's time as Bishop of Chelmsford, the BBC can reveal.

A Church of England tribunal has upheld a new complaint of child sexual abuse by a disgraced priest who was banned from ministry last year. The Southwark diocese tribunal found David Tudor sexually ...

"The law does not have an age limit", the head of the Metropolitan Police said after an 83-year-old retired priest was arrested for supporting a banned protest group. Reverend Sue Parfitt from Henbury ...