A profile of Scotland's established church, a mainstream Protestant Christian church with its own individual character; its history, subgroups and religious practices. The Church of Scotland is a ...

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly on Monday (May 20) passed a historic vote to allow actively gay men and lesbians to become ordained ministers. After more than six ...

(UPDATED) Traditionalist minority worry disagreement on the issue will make it harder to work together on mission. Update (May 23): Church of Scotland ministers are now permitted to perform same-sex ...

In South Sudan “the Church speaks with one voice for peace,” says Presbyterian leader about the upcoming trip with Pope Francis. From February 3 to 5, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of ...

As a result, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland will no longer extend an invitation to the head of the Church of Scotland to attend its General Assembly in Belfast. A vote was taken at the General ...

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A hundred years ago there was a Presbyterian clergyman in Scotland who could make lectures on mathematics so stirring that the authorities at St. Andrews, fearful of the excitement thus roused in the ...

A religious leader will today call on other church heads to reunite under the same banner and redraw the Christian map of Scotland. In his keynote address, the Rev Dr John Ross, Moderator of the Free ...