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Free Church plans to scrap Gaelic communion service
Scotland's oldest living language has suffered a serious blow in its last remaining heartland. A special committee of the Free Church of Scotland's Western Isles Presbytery has plans to scrap communion services in the language in the Western Isles, and replace them with English, so that congregations will not be split during the Sacrament.They have blamed the lack of preachers fluent in the language, as well as the changing face of Hebridean society, which has seen a decline in the number of Gaelic speakers.
But the move has been attacked by language supporters, who have accused the church of ignoring loyal Gaelic churchgoers to cater for a minority of English-speaking "incomers".
Full story at Scotland on Sunday.
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