From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Church of Scotland has been accused of making the purchase process unnecessarily complicated for community groups. Communities should get priority when churches go up for sale after several have ...

FALLING church attendance and the reduction of numbers of ministers are forcing the Church of Scotland to take tough decisions on church closures and structural reforms. The General Assembly of the ...

THE hundreds of buildings currently being disposed of by the Church of Scotland should be made available to the country’s diaspora churches, whose lack of premises is a “missional leash” on their ...