The Church of Scotland is to formally apologise for its historic links to slavery, as it admits elements of its past are now viewed with 'deep regret'. Commissioners at the Church's General ...

The Scottish Church faced many problems in the 1540s ... the English had encouraged George Wishart to tour Scotland and preach Protestant ideas. This was to prove inspiring to future Protestant ...

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“Sadly, the immediate future looks bleak for the Church in Wales, Church of Scotland, Episcopalians, Methodists, and older Welsh nonconformists.” According to his model, both the Church of ...

Today that situation has been completely transformed. Perhaps the most significant thing in the life of the Church in Scotland is the growing awareness that evangelism is in no sense simply a ...

The church was originally a protest breakaway group from the mainstream Church of Scotland, formed in 1843. It is the second-largest denomination after the national Church of Scotland and has ...

The “door is open” to finally sign a stalled peace agreement in South Sudan, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has said. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

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 ...