Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, president of the Pontifical Gregorian University's Institute of Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care, poses for a photo during a safeguarding ...

The commission also called for a dedicated advocate or ombudsman in the Vatican to assist victims and advocated for further study on compensation policies. Pope Francis joines the Pontifical ...

The Church of England is "learning lessons" and making its processes more rigorous to deal with reports of sexual abuse ...

The Catholic Church should not be discouraged by the challenge of confronting sex abuse, Pope Francis said, rather it must take concrete steps in developing policies to preserve the dignity of its ...

A new safeguarding policy which sets higher standards for the Church when it comes to handling cases involving minors, adults and vulnerable people has been published by the Church in Malta and Gozo.

There has been "a culture of indifference towards safeguarding" at one of Northern Ireland's biggest and best-known churches, according to a critical report seen by BBC News NI. The report followed an ...

Members of the Church of England’s Synod will vote on new safeguarding proposals in February (James Manning/PA) A new independent safeguarding approach for the Church of England would not be fully in ...

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is to be investigated by the north’s Charity Commission after it announced that it had opened an inquiry into the church’s safeguarding failings. It was announced on ...

The Vatican issued its first annual report Tuesday assessing the Catholic Church’s policies and procedures to prevent abuse in dioceses worldwide from Africa to Oceania. The 50-page report by the ...

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