A new report reveals that an estimated 216,000 children have been subjected to “systematic” abuse within the French Catholic Church over the past 70 years.

US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has censured a controversial plan by American tech giant Apple to scan user photos for child abuse imagery.

The Canadian indigenous group that discovered some 750 unmarked graves near a former residential school last month has announced the takeover of its own child welfare services under a deal with the federal government.

A court in Germany sentences the members of a pedophile ring to long terms in prison for sexually abusing children in multiple cases.

A Canadian 1st Nations group in Saskatchewan has revealed that the remains of hundreds of people, mostly children, were discovered at the site of a former Catholic boarding school.

UN human rights experts urge the Vatican to take steps to stop child sex abuse in Catholic institutions.

Up to a quarter of a million children, young people, and vulnerable adults were abused in New Zealand’s faith-based and state care institutions in the past several decades, a public inquiry reveals.

Polish senior archbishop has notified the Vatican of overlooked child sex scandal case

Australian Cardinal George Pell is freed from jail after being acquitted by Australia’s highest court of charges of child abuse in a shock ruling.

Yemeni forces free dozens of Saudi-paid child soldiers under the supervision of the UNICEF.