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October 2008

• Kirk: we will stand by failed asylum seekers' children
• Psychological screening will bar gays from being priests
• MSP with Parkinson's seeks law change on assisted suicide
• Special city viewing focuses on Children in Conflict
• Parish church chooses home
• Cardinal attacked over 'Nazi' embryo Bill outburst
• Cardinal O'Brien asks Prime Minister to amend HFEA Bill
• Kirk selects Moderator Designate
• Suspected cathedral vandal dies in custody
• Church gets ground source heat pump
• Slay bells ring as the Dungeon chains up Santa Claus
• Researchers dig up the dirt on father of Protestantism
• Three British evangelicals cast blame on each other in trials over child abuse at Albanian orphanage
• New 'eco' church is now open
• Vandals trash cathedral where Madonna's son was baptised
• Scotland to get first private abortion clinic
• Boom in marriages not made in heaven
• Cardinal O'Brien highlights "barbaric indifference to rights of the unborn"
• Frank Coutts
• Outdoor company fined £16,000 after girl dies gorge jumping
• Meet Roshni Hafeez: White, blind and .. a Muslim
• Easter Ross site yields clue in kirk riddle
• Authorities back outdoor centre after £16,000 fine for girl’s death
• Music teacher viewed child porn
• Jail term cut for Harthill pervert who had sex with girl (14)
• Council aims to end Dungavel row by housing failed asylum families
• Solution to asylum crisis became 'Scotland’s shame'
• Thick or treat
• Atheists' bus ads on the way
• New director appointed for Scottish Churches House
• Kirk slams Government over welfare reform
• Abbey days for Paisley organ
• Thieves steal Salvation Army captain's car
• Burke and Hare act that would have Mary turning in her grave
• Mary, our contrary Queen, must stay put in Westminster Abbey
• Professor James Murray
• Inspired by faith: an interview with Alex Salmond
• Duo's global church mission
• Woman's dying wish is fulfilled
• Pope appoints new bishop for Argyll and The Isles
• Kirk voices concern ahead of crucial embryos debate
• Life and Work: The blindness will pass in time
• The ripple effects that threaten to swamp us
• 'Nonsense' for force youth worker to quit
• Banker Scott was 'meticulous in everything he did'
• BBC boss says Islam should be treated more sensitively than Christianity
• Nominations for Moderator Designate
• Thieves nick minister's satnav
• Climate change is "like climbing Mount Everest"
• Uncovering north's Christian past
• Two historic churches in disrepair receive £200,000
• BBC 'horror film' faces religious outcry
• Row over £215k 'terror-link' festival
• Sharia law is 'not fit for the UK', says a Labour Muslim MP
• MSP's battle for body of Mary, Queen of Scots
• Poles apart: the new Presbyterian pulpit war has begun
• Dr Edward D Herbert
• Alistair MacLeod
• Sacked priest in row over hospital communion claim
• Sneak preview of Pictish stones exhibition
• Scottish Catholic leader urges public to vote in Glenrothes by-election
• Church of Scotland backs Islamic sharia law courts
• Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld
• Firies and Sally Army liaise
• Murray critical of fans' 'bile'
• Kicking out anti-social behaviour
• Rev Stephen Macdonald inducted at Carloway
• Decision time on Baile na Cille church
• Death of former Caldervale rector
• No plan for Islamic law in Scotland, say ministers
• Kirk welcomes Sharia courts into Scotland
• Conmen pushing the mentally ill to the brink of suicide
• Priest's holy spirits
• Ding-dong over church bell noise
• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity focuses on overcoming divisions
• New research claims Bible's negative stance on women is a myth
• Glenrothes by-election: Candidate profiles
• Increase in alcohol abuse fuels youth crime
• Time and place: Lord David Steel
• Why they’re turning green in the pews
• Cardinal welcomes launch of new cancer fund
• Churches could answer housing prayers
• Church commissions Howson painting for cathedral facelift
• Churches could answer housing prayers
• You couldn't have a better role model
• Children's watchdog calls for rethink over Bill
• Trust restores derelict hill-top Roman Catholic chapel
• Bible Society launches resources for BBC's Passion series
• '30-second Nativity' competition
• Free Church of Scotland announces Moderator Designage for 2009
• Archdiocese of Glasgow commissions Scotland’s most famous painter
• Rev David Ogston
• Iconic Dumfries church to re-open