Help wanted for Slovak Bible camp
Last a year a small team from Govanhill Free Church in Glasgow partnered with a church in Slovakia to run a holiday Bible camp for kids aged 6-11 years old. The town of Spisska Nova Ves is in Eastern...
View ArticleMigration from Africa to Malta: focus should be on people caught in the...
A Church of Scotland minister based in Malta has insisted that the focus for churches in the current migration controversy should not be on politics, but the people caught in the middle. Reverend Doug...
View ArticlePsalm-singing Spanish pastor’s visit to Scotland
Pastor Jorge Ruiz, from Spain, is a minister of the Christian Presbyterian Church, writes Rev William B Scott. His congregation is in two parts, one part in Bilbao on the North Coast, and one part in...
View ArticleEU representation expert to join new Bishop’s team
David Fieldsend is to join the Anglican Diocese of Europe’s office in Brussels as part of the brief to strengthen links with the European institutions. He will have responsibility for tracking and...
View ArticleGlasgow priest named rector of re-opened Scots College in Salamanca, Spain
In a dual announcement the Bishops of Scotland have nominated a new Rector for the Royal Scots College, Salamanca, and have asked him to do the preparatory work for the re-opening of the College as a...
View ArticleModerator urges all faiths to learn lessons of Bosnian massacre at Srebrenica
Today the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Rev John Chalmers will address the first Memorial Event held in Scotland for the 8,000 men and boys killed in the Srebrenica genocide of 1995. The...
View ArticleNot just Jews: Christians under increasing attack in Europe
Christian churches are under increasing assault all over Europe, reports the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, a Vienna-based group charged with monitoring such attacks....
View ArticleCouncil of Europe: Discrimination against Christians ‘ignored’ across continent
Discrimination against Christians is being “ignored” by governments and courts, MPs from across Europe have warned in the wake of a string of cases involving the rights of British workers to wear...
View ArticleTrainee Catholic priests are ‘hooking up using gay dating app Grindr at...
Trainee Catholic priests have been meeting up using the gay dating app Grindr at Ireland’s top seminary, it has been claimed. Dublin’s archbishop Dr Diarmuid Martin said he was ‘somewhat unhappy’ about...
View Article‘Church ministers must marry same-sex couples’, says Swedish PM
Ministers in Sweden’s state church cannot “refuse to marry same-sex couples”, the country’s Prime Minister has said. Stefan Löfven announced that church leaders should be required to marry same-sex...
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