Group to look at keeping new Trident out of Clyde
A group is to be set up to examine ways of preventing a replacement for the Trident nuclear weapons system being based on the Clyde. The group, which will be backed by the Scottish Government, will...
View ArticleCongregation applauds minister after arrest
Rev John Webster was honoured with a round of applause as he entered Kilmory Church last Sunday morning. The Arran Church of Scotland minister was arrested for demonstrating outside the Faslane...
View ArticleKirk asked to reaffirm opposition to nuclear arms
The Church of Scotland was yesterday forced at the General Assembly to reaffirm its opposition to nuclear weapons. Members criticised the view that the UK’s own stockpile should not be linked to the...
View ArticleDelegates fail to sway Kirk on nuclear disarmament
The Kirk was forced to clarify its position on nuclear weapons yesterday after linking the possible development of Iran’s atomic arsenal to the scrapping of Trident. A report before the General...
View ArticleCall for end to nuclear waste doubt
A Thurso Church of Scotland minister is calling on the Scottish Government to end the long-standing uncertainty over what is to happen to the country’s intermediate active nuclear waste. The Rev Ronnie...
View ArticleLose Trident and win the moral war
A recent editorial in this paper [The Times] on Trident, noting that “national defence is one of the cardinal duties of the statesman”, caused me to reflect on the moral duties of a cardinal, writes...
View ArticleScottish churches campaign against nuclear weapons
Scottish church leaders have intensified pressure on the Government to abandon plans to renew the Trident nuclear weapons system. The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt...
View ArticleChurches condemn billions spent on Trident
Scotland’s church leaders have used their Easter messages to launch a scathing attack on the UK government over its adoption of a replacement for the Trident nuclear weapons system. In a joint open...
View ArticleUK nuclear weapon programme 'shameful' says cardinal
Scotland’s Catholic figurehead [sic] has urged the UK government to give up its “shameful” nuclear weapon programme. Cardinal Keith O’Brien was addressing a rally against nuclear weapons outside the...
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Kirk reminds government: Nuclear weapons are inherently evil
The Church of Scotland’s view that nuclear weapons are inherently evil has today been reiterated by Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, Convener of the Church of Scotland’s Church and Society Council. Responding...
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