Moderator to visit South Africa
Free Church Moderator Rev Dr Iain D Campbell is set to embark on a week-long trip to South Africa to meet with missionaries and ministry students on the Eastern Cape. Accompanied by his wife Anne, Dr...
View ArticleDavid Livingstone's diary to go on show in Blantyre
A diary written by the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone is to go on public show for the first time. The journal had been unreadable for over a century due to fading ink. The pages are...
View ArticleMalawi president Joyce Banda marks David Livingstone birth
The president of Malawi is in Scotland for celebrations to mark 200 years since the birth of Scottish missionary Dr David Livingstone. Joyce Banda visited the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre...
View ArticleSwindler accused of ripping off orphans is tracked down to Scottish bolthole
A charity fraudster under investigation in South Africa has been tracked down to a Scottish bolthole by the Sunday Mail. Geoffrey Baker is being probed by elite police in Johannesburg over claims he...
View ArticleChristians remember 'trailblazer' David Livingstone
Christians met in Edinburgh on Saturday to consider the legacy of Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone. The conference was held by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity as part...
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Easter message from the Moderator of the Church of Scotland’s General...
Celebrating Easter in Africa! Now Africans know how to sing Hallelujah! — Albert Bogle (@italker) March 30, 2013
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Churches knitting for struggling kids
More than 10,000 hours went into the knitting of hundreds of jumpers and hats to be flown out to poverty stricken Malawi this June. Members of Bourock Church and the surrounding Paisley parish have...
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Inverclyde church group takes aid to Africa
Inverclyde churches have been reaching out to some of the poorest people in Africa. Ten years ago the local Church of Scotland Presbytery built a close relationship with their counterparts in the...
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David Livingstone’s relatives special guests at Kirk’s General Assembly
Three great grandchildren of missionary and explorer David Livingstone are to be special guests at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Elspeth, Mary and Neil Murdoch will be at the session...
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Christians in North Africa and Middle East ‘under substantial threat’
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was today urged to continue speaking up for human rights and religious freedom around the world and especially in Arab Spring countries. The Lord High...
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Burnside church family off on missionary work in Mozambique
Burnside Blairbeth Church members are heading off to Mozambique for three-years as part of their latest missionary work. Steve and Katuska Davies work with OMS UK (One Mission Society) to introduce...
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Kirk’s ‘donate books’ call on Nelson Mandela birthday
Today is Nelson Mandela Day and his 95th birthday which he is spending in hospital. The Church of Scotland prays that he is making a steady recovery. Right Reverend Lorna Hood, Moderator of the General...
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Welby flies to Africa telling Anglicans to treat gay people as ‘children of God’
The Archbishop of Canterbury is on a collision course with Anglican leaders in Africa as he sets off on a five-day trip to the continent while denouncing new laws persecuting gay people. The Most Rev...
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African traditionalists reject Anglican dialogue on gays
An African-led traditionalist group opposed to growing acceptance of homosexuality in the worldwide Anglican Communion has rejected a Church of England plea to review its Bible-based condemnation of...
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David Livingstone legacy: boost for Scots scholarship link-up with Malawi
A total of 30 people will be offered places on the Scotland Malawi Scholarship programme after a deal was signed between the two countries yesterday. This follows the successful David Livingstone...
View ArticlePardon and release confirmed for Sudanese Christian Meriam Ibrahim, sentenced...
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has confirmed that the appeal court reviewing the case of Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy and 100 lashes for adultery...
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FGM activist: ‘Girls in UK Sunday schools are being cut – the Church must...
• Executive director Dr Ann-Marie Wilson, talks about 28 Too Many’s research on FGM in Kenya and their work to end the practice in the 28 countries in Africa where it is practised and in the global...
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Booze everlasting for beer-lievers in Jesus! Tayside minister makes Malawi...
A Tayside minister told an African congregation that they would have “everlasting beer” if they believed in Jesus. Rev Gordon Campbell, of Perth’s Congregational Church, made the slip-up attempting to...
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Remembering Cathy Peat: 1920s medical missionary to Livingstonia in Malawi
My grandmother Cathy Peat was an indomitable woman, writes Lynne Haultain. Graduating in medicine in the mid-1920s in Aberdeen, Scotland, she found herself within a few years on a mission to deepest...
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African priest inspires his Pitlochry flock to help young people in Nigeria
Fr Tobias Okoro, parish priest at St Bride’s in Pitlochry, is hoping to raise £16,000 towards building a Learning Centre in Umualumaku, Nigeria, with the help of the Society of St Vincent de Paul....
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