Hello, I'm Laura Kunsberg, BBC presenter and journalist. This is the interview from the BBC

World Service, the best conversations coming out of the BBC, the people who shape our world from all

over the world. I will come back to Russia. I will participate in the elections.

There's an increase in violence according to the coca crop.

There is no place in the world where women are equal.

I will give away the vast majority of my money.

It's my full-time focus for the rest of my life.

In this episode, I speak to the former Archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the Church

of England and symbolic head of the Anglican community, a worldwide body with more than

85 million worshippers. Justin Welby presided not just over the church, but over some of the biggest

events in the Commonwealth of the last decade, including the funeral of her late majesty, Queen

Elizabeth II. It was a beautiful sunny day. I was standing at the door of Westminster Hall,

waiting for the coffin, and you heard from the distance, the cheers,

and then as it got closer the sighs, the groans almost.

But his tenure was clouded and eventually brought to an end

by an abuse scandal that shook the church.

Barrister John Smyth, who died in South Africa in 2018,

abused more than a hundred children and young men in the UK and Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.

He met many of the young men he abused at Christian summer camps.

By 2013, the Church of England knew at the highest level about Smyth's abuse,

including Mr Welby, who'd become Archbishop that year. An independent report suggested,

if the church had pursued Smyth more vigorously early on, he could have been brought to justice

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