A Prayer for Easter Sunday: Christ is risen Hallelujah

An ambitious production of the Easter Story will be staged across five towns in Lanarkshire during Holy Week and ending on Good Friday.Beginning on Palm Sunday, performances of the immersive People’s Passion will take place in Wishaw, Motherwell, Carluke, Lanark and Hamilton.

The Church of Scotland’s interfaith officer, Mirella Yandoli, is inviting youth workers to attend a training event aimed at helping them tackle hate speech.

As Christians across the world prepare to mark the death and resurrection of Christ, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Rt Rev Susan Brown, writes about the living experience of Easter.

Church of Scotland congregations are being urged to ring their bells in a show of solidarity and sympathy with France.

Witnessing Pope Frances kissing the feet of South Sudan leaders to encourage them not to return to civil war was an “extraordinary” moment.

Rev Dr John L McPake, the Church of Scotland’s ecumenical officer, gives us this prayer for all those affected by the fire.

Around 15,000 people will march through the streets of Budapest this weekend to commemorate a brave Scot who laid down her life to protect Jewish school girls.

Over the coming weeks, as the UK faces huge changes in our relationships with the EU and as Rt Rev Susan Brown, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, invites congregations across Scotland to do all we can to demonstrate care and hospitality, we will be providing a prayer each week that we hope might be useful in personal devotions and public worship. Please feel free to change and adapt these prayers to suit your own context.

Two stars of hit series Still Game have officially opened a community shop in the east-end of Glasgow.