Traditional nativity plays are being ditched in favour of pop songs and punk fairies, with only a third of schools now staging biblically based performances at According to new research from Netmums...
A Christian education expert has said schools are fining parents a "crazy" amount when they take them out of school during term time. Graham Coyle, from the Christian Schools Trust also said the gove...
Half of academies without a religious character are failing to meet their legal requirement to provide Religious Education (RE) to 15 and 16 year olds, with nea Forty per cent of community schools (s...
The number of students choosing to study religious education at A-level is in decline for the second year running. As students across the country received their A-level results this week, new figures...
A report into the damage caused to some of the world's poorest communities by big business has been released by a Catholic charity. SCIAF says many major companies aren't held to account for the nega...
A Church of England-backed project will receive more than £700,000 from a charity to help promote engagement between Christians and science. The three-year programme was announced during British S...
TV shows exploring the natural world and science can actually make people more likely to believe in God, a new study has found. A report published in science journal 'Emotion' goes against the belief...
A scientist has listed being spiritual as a key ingredient needed for someone to thrive in life. Dr Daniel Brown, a sport and exercise scientist at the University of Portsmouth, has completed researc...
Scientists have discovered that the best preserved Swiss tomb mummy buried in a church in Basel is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother of The Natural History Museum in Basel led ...
The fertility regulator is being urged to block a controversial new medical procedure one Christian campaign group is warning goes against God's design and carr What is 'early pronuclear transfer'? I...
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have found that the brain responds less to money gained from immoral actions than money earned decently. The research, published in Nature Neuroscience...
Dozens of firefighters have been sent to tackle an overnight blaze at a church hall in west London. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said 10 engines and 70 firefighters were called to the site in Dorris Hil...
The next Free Church of Scotland Moderator says the country has "no room for Jesus". Revd David Robertson compared the birth of Jesus with life in present-day Scotland, and said that atheists hiding ...
A Christian think tank is to call on the Scottish Government to safeguard faith schools in the face of "pressure" from secular groups. Solas Centre for Public Christianity, which has links to the Fre...
Two Catholic Archbishops in Scotland have written to the country's First Minister saying they want to help refugees fleeing persecution by offering them homes. The Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartag...
CCTV is being installed in one of Inverness' oldest churches after a spate of thefts. St Mary's Roman Catholic says it has suffered a number of thefts over the past few months, the latest just last w...
A bill which allows same-sex weddings to take place in Scotland has been passed by MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. The Church of Scotland and the Scottish Catholic Church are being forced to to acce...
A ban on smacking in Scotland would mark an "open attack" on the authority of God, a church leader has warned Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) minister ...
A special Mass will be held in Glasgow to mark 400 years since the martyrdom of Scotland's only post-Reformation saint. Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor - the former Archbishop of Westminster - has be...
Scotland's former First Minister, Alex Salmond, has said he prefers "people of faith to people of no faith or people who have lost their faith". Mr Salmond, now the SNP Foreign Affairs spokesperson c...
