Benedict XVI and the United Kingdom: ‘foolish and sinful of our rulers to be...
The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland shares the view of the British and Continental Reformers – a view enshrined in the Westminster Confession of Faith, and therefore in the Treaty of Union of 1707...
View ArticleMinister and Church reach out-of-court settlement
A sacked minister who took legal action to prove that he was unfairly dismissed has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Rev Allan MacDonald’s case was...
View ArticleMother fears for son missing on expedition to find Noah’s Ark
A Scottish man on a quest to find the remains of Noah’s Ark has vanished on Mount Ararat, his family said yesterday. Donald Mackenzie, from Stornoway, was reported missing after he failed to report...
View Article'I fear hunt for Noah’s Ark has cost my brother his life'
The brother of a Scots explorer who has gone missing searching for Noah’s Ark in eastern Turkey has said that he is probably dead. Donald Mackenzie, 47, from Lewis, had been searching on Mount Ararat,...
View ArticleFree Presbyterian Church warning on independence vote
A vote for independence could jeopardise the position of the church, it has been claimed. Present arrangements, in place since the union of 1707, enshrine Christianity at the heart of the nation,...
View ArticleScottish independence: Self rule would be a ‘provocation of God’ say Wee Frees
An independentScotland would weaken the position of the Christian Church and be a ‘provocation of God’, according to the Free Presbyterians.Rev Allan MacColl, spokesman for the Scottish Free...
View ArticleCall for greater Presbyterian unity in Scotland: currently 11 denominations
Five years after calling for the Christian map of Scotland to be reworked in his Moderatorial address at the 2007 Free Church General Assembly, Rev Dr John Ross has again urged like-minded...
View ArticleFree Presbyterians condemn ‘false evangelism’ of Perth-based evangelical...
The Free Presbyterian Church’s Outer Isles Presbytery has issued a statement condemning false evangelism, urging parents not to send their children to the Challenger Bus when it next visits the islands...
View ArticleFree Presbyterian Church and cyclists on collision course over Glasgow race
More than 150 worshippers at the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, near Charing Cross, may have to fight through hundreds of world class riders taking part in the British Cycling National Road Race...
View ArticleLewis islanders strike back over Star Wars Sunday cinema
When the curtain goes up on a screening of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on the Isle of Lewis this month the sound of intergalactic conflict is likely to be drowned out by an unholy row*. On a Hebridean...
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