A Scottish clergyman is urging Christians concerned about poverty levels in the country to vote no at the referendum. One in five children live in poverty north of the border with the figure at one i...
A Scottish missionary who gave her life to protect Jewish schoolgirls during the Holocaust will have her life remembered through a new heritage centre. The story of Jane Haining's heroism, bravery an...
The Scottish Parliament held its first ever Mass on Wednesday. Archbishop Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh said it was a momentous occasion. "It is a great privilege to be official...
MSPs have congratulated an Edinburgh church as it reached its 80th anniversary this month. Edinburgh Pentlands MSP, Gordon Macdonald, tabled a motion praising leaders at St Nicholas Church in Sighthi...
A priest in Scotland has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly £100,000 from parishioners. Fr Graeme Bell, 41, and from Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, admitted having a gambli...
A campaign group urging the government to stop attempts to extend Sunday trading hours has said Scottish shopworkers will lose up to £1,500 a year if the chang Keep Sunday Special's warning comes am...
The remains of 17th century Scottish prisoners of war will be reburied after skeletons were discovered during building work at Durham University. Extensive tests were carried out after they were foun...
One person's died in stormy weather - as winds of up to 100mph continue to batter parts of Britain. Parts of the UK are braced for the most serious tidal surge for more than 60 years this evening. Mo...
The head of Scouts says the movement may die out in some areas because it's too often seen as only for middle class Christians. Chief commissioner Wayne Bulpitt was speaking at the launch of a new in...
A group of Christian leaders from across the UK have come together to call on the international community to abandon nuclear weapons. The Church of Scotland and Church in Wales are joined by the Bapt...
A concrete sculpture resembling a Christian cross has been demolished in a Saudi Arabian city after complaints from residents. The state was removed on Friday in Buraydah (220 miles north west of the...
Sea chaplains hope a new virtual ship "surfing" the internet will highlight the conditions enduring by the world's seafarers. Named Boaty McBoatface - in a nod to a public vote for the naming of a ne...
The Church of England has been criticised by victims for potentially keeping 13th-century laws that allow child abuse revealed during confession to be kept secr The Archbishop of York had urged that ...
Sean Bean has said his role as a Catholic priest in an upcoming television drama series opened his eyes to the UK's religious communities. The English actor stars as Father Michael Kerrigan in the ne...
Actor Sean Bean has won his first Bafta for playing a troubled priest in the hit BBC drama Broken. The 59-year-old was awarded the best actor gong at the Royal Festival Hall in London last on Sunday ...
The search has begun for the country's worst advent calendar. Ten million of the chocolate gifts are expected to be sold in the run-up to Christmas, with many becoming more and more secular.Ship of...
The position of the Bishop of Oxford remains unfilled after not one candidate achieved enough votes. Rt Revd John Pritchard retired from the post in October last year after seven years' service.Und...
A song and hymn writer's charity has launched a search for the best new hymn. Jubilate has opened its Hymn of Peace competition, with the winning hymn to be recorded and released as a single.Joel Pay...
A man is trying to track down the owner of a Welsh Bible dating back at least 120 years, after it was found in a skip. David Green was given the Bible in 2011 by a friend of his father-in-law, who di...
Holding a second referendum on the final Brexit deal would add to the nation's divisions and "deepen the bitterness", the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. The Most Rev Justin Welby said last June...
