Ms Higgs, who worked in a school, shared posts on social media criticising LGBT+ teaching.

The study is gathering the stories of survivors of abuse in "faith settings", who hope it could lead to a public inquiry.

The Church's national assembly is voting on options to radically change its safeguarding processes.

The Right Reverend Vivienne Faull, who has spent 42 years in full-time ministry, said: "The time has come for a rest."

David Fletcher was rector of St Ebbe's Church in Oxford between 1986 and 1998 and died in 2022.

Interior Lives takes inspiration from the Panacea Society - a religious sect based in Bedford.

Hundreds of adoptions could have taken place between the 1950s and 1990s, say women who were members of a Christian sect.

The church in Willington is praised for installing bird boxes, hedgehog shelters and wildflowers.