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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...
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Pardon 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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Ebola outbreak: Christian hospital Mercy Ships cancels trip due to risk
The travelling Christian hospital Mercy Ships has had to cancel a trip to care for people in Africa due to the Ebola outbreak that is wreaking havoc in the region. The ship has been halted in a planned...
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Malawi drought: Gladys had hoped to send her gifted son to school, now she...
In April, I visited Christian Aid-supported projects in Nsanje, Malawi, writes Keryn Banks. I saw the crippling effects of climate change on the local community. The combination of floods in Jan 2015...
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