Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

FOUND: Anglican church | Mind Blowing Facts

Anglican Church in South Africa admits failures in handling of sexual abuse claims

The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.K. and Zimbabwe before fleeing to South Africa, where he died in 2018

The Independent UK

How one couple shopped for a house and bought a church

There were five registered bidders when the former Anglican Church was auctioned.

The Canberra Times

Ex-governor-general Peter Hollingworth faces second Anglican Church inquiry into handling of child abuse

A second Anglican Church investigation probing former governor-general Peter Hollingworth's handling of child abuse during his tenure as Archbishop of Brisbane in the 1990s, has been held in secret.

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Abuse survivors slam Anglican Church ruling of ex governor-general Peter Hollingworth amid calls for re-investigation

Survivors of church abuse slam the finding of an Anglican Church investigation into former governor-general Peter Hollingworth and call for him to be re-examined by an independent body.

ABC News

Anglican Church abuse review finds Peter Hollingworth ‘fit for ministry’

Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth accepts the Anglican Church's review into abuse allegations that found he is "fit for ministry".

The New Daily

Ex-governor-general Peter Hollingworth 'fit for ministry' despite misconduct, Anglican Church board finds

An Anglican Church investigation finds Dr Hollingworth committed misconduct by knowingly allowing paedophile priests to remain in the church when he was Brisbane archbishop, but is "fit for ministry", provided he apologises to survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of those priests.

ABC News

Oil for Charles III's coronation consecrated in Jerusalem

Two senior clergymen in Jerusalem have consecrated the holy oil that will be used to anoint King Charles III during his May 6 coronation, as the Anglican Church seeks to underscore the monarchy’s long history and the royal family’s links to the Middle East

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Friction over LGBTQ issues worsens in global Anglican church

Friction has been simmering within the global Anglican Communion for many years over its 42 provinces’ sharp differences on whether to recognize same-sex marriage and ordain LGBTQ clergy

The Independent UK

Historic St John's Anglican Church in Ross up for sale despite community push to save it

After a long-running local effort to try and buy it, the historic St John's Anglican Church in Ross has hit the open market — and interest is "massive".

ABC News

Relief turned to anguish as victim saw abuser promoted within Anglican church, court told

When Harvey told the head of Tasmania's Anglican Church in the 1980s that he had been sexually abused by a priest, he felt greatly relieved. Then he watched that same priest go from promotion to promotion.

ABC News

The process of crowning the new British monarch

LONDON: While Charles automatically became king the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died, the coronation will not come until later as this deeply symbolic ceremony takes time to organise.

Bangkok Post

As demand for Victorian kinder spots rises, one Melbourne 'icon' is on the cusp of closure

The 2023 kindergarten plans of dozens of Melbourne families are thrown into disarray after learning their community-led kinder will shut its doors at the end of the year. Parents are urging the Anglican Church, which owns the land, to reconsider a decision not to renew the centre's lease.

ABC News

Anglican turmoil: progressives slam new conservative Diocese of the Southern Cross

Signs of the cross and the big Anglican split

Newcastle Herald

Behind the split of the Anglican church in Australia over gay marriage

In the opening address of this year’s Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) Australasia, Bishop Richard Condie announced the creation of the Diocese of the Southern Cross. In Bishop Condie’s words:

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Anglican priest Chris Bird stripped of Holy Orders over alleged assault, bullying, intimidation

A Newcastle priest will need to prove he has been rehabilitated after being suspended by the Anglican Church for not reporting a serious sexual assault by another priest, bullying, assault and intimidation.

ABC News

Australia's Anglican Church splits over same-sex marriage, conservatives form new diocese

As Australia's Anglican Church splits and a conservative group of bishops opposed to same-sex marriage form a breakaway diocese, progressives argue they are "entirely faithful to scripture".

The Independent UK

Archbishop Justin Welby criticised for ‘affirming validity’ of 1998 declaration that gay sex is a sin

Anger from LGBT+ priests after Anglican leader says church’s official stance on sexuality ‘not in doubt’

The Independent UK

First Nations leader calls for Queen’s apology over indigenous children scandal

Canada is dealing with a national scandal that saw thousands die or be abused in residential schools.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Calls for the Queen to say sorry over major church child abuse scandal in Canada

Community leaders have in recent years demanded apologies and reparations from the Anglican Church which ran 36 residential schools in Canada, the most of any religious denomination apart from the Roman Catholic Church

The Conversation

Anglican disunity on same-sex marriage threatens to tear the church apart

When same-sex marriage was legislated by the Commonwealth in 2017, it quickly became a potential flashpoint in the Anglican Church of Australia.

The Conversation

The 100-year-old story of South Africa's first history book in the isiZulu language

This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first book-length history of black people written in isiZulu. Part of the Nguni language group, there are an estimated 12 million isiZulu speakers in South Africa.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Church of England

432 stories

SSC

174 stories

Roman Catholic Church

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.