Yesterday’s decision on sexuality and the ministry at the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly means that “the Kirk has moved and is moving”, according to the Rev Scott Rennie, the openly gay minister whose appointment at Queen’s Cross church in Aberdeen helped precipitate the debate. Commenting on the weblog of the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, [...]

Scotland will next year be voting on independence but the Church of Scotland’s Sally Foster-Fulton wants the ongoing conversation to move away from a “tennis match of yes and no”. Foster-Fulton, convener of the Kirk’s Church and Society Council, said the debate so far had been “quite polarised” and that she wanted to see people [...]

A Syrian Christian leader has spoken of the desperate plight of the church in the war-torn country. Dr Mary Mikhael, of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria, said churches were being targeted in the conflict and that many Christians were being displaced. As refugees, they lack adequate shelter, medicine, food supplies and “their human dignity”, [...]