A senior Church of Scotland minister has written to Alex Salmond about asylum seekers who are facing oppression and persecution if they are sent back home.

The Catholic Church in Scotland is being questioned over plans to charge parishioners for the cost of going to see the Pope on his visit to Glasgow.

Faith is the driving force behind “impressive work” in many local communities fighting poverty, a senior government minister has claimed in relation to a visit to a Glasgow-based anti-poverty organisation.

The managing director of one of the world's most illustrious football clubs, Barcelona FC, has joined other Spanish philanthropists in donating a statue of the Black Madonna to St Aloysius' Roman Catholic Church in Glasgow.