{"id":72900,"date":"2024-11-12T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/archbishop-of-canterbury-resigns-over-church-of-england-abuse-scandal-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:43:46","slug":"archbishop-of-canterbury-resigns-over-church-of-england-abuse-scandal-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/archbishop-of-canterbury-resigns-over-church-of-england-abuse-scandal-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over Church of England abuse scandal | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned following a report into a child abuser associated with the Church of <!--more--> England.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation statement, Welby said the report &#8220;exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added, when he was told in 2013 that Smyth had been reported to police, &#8220;I believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#ArchbishopOfCanterbury #ChurchOfEngland #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned following a report into a child abuser associated with the Church of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}