Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, announced today that he will step down, following accusations against the Church of England of a decades-long cover-up of child abuse. The Anglican Church has been accused of covering up a scandal that left more than 130 victims, mostly underage boys, of physical and sexual assault by a lawyer linked to the Church. Between the 1970s and the mid-2010s, John Smith, a barrister who was chairman of a Church of England camp and holiday charity, was accused of abusing 130 boys and young men in the UK and then in Africa, particularly in Zimbabwe and South Africa, where he had settled. Although Church leadership was officially informed of these events in 2013, religious leaders had knowledge since the early 1980s but kept them secret as part of a “cover-up campaign”, an investigation into […]
Source: News Beast
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