We were on a pilgrimage to visit the tiny island of Iona, 35 miles away. With a population of only 120, it’s just three miles long and one mile wide.

Religious leaders have warned that the UK's increasingly hostile immigration policies threaten the centuries-old tradition of global pilgrimage to the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland.

The latest pilgrimage to Iona began June 11 at St. Columba’s Cathedral in the west coast town of Oban, where Bishop Brian McGee of Argyll and the Isles celebrated a 6 a.m. Mass for the pilgrimage.

Five Yorkshire vicars are preparing for a five-day motorbike "pilgrimage" from Yorkshire to Iona off the west coast of Scotland.

The Celtic Christian saints chose windswept places along the British shore. St Columba inhabited the lonely rock of Iona, amidst wild Hebridean seas. St Aidan made his home on Lindisfarne ...

Describe your feelings when you reached the end of the Pilgrimage and arrived in Iona? I felt relieved when I reached the end, I just wanted to go home and see my family!

For me, pilgrimage begins with the Isle of Iona. I started going there with my parents in the earliest days of childhood. We traveled from the heart of landlocked Perthshire: as the crow flies it’s a ...

The monastic community the Irish saint founded at Iona became deeply influential as a center of learning and devotion.

Describe your feelings when you reached the end of the Pilgrimage and arrived in Iona? I appreciated how hard it must have been for Saint Columba to travel across to Scotland, especially in the ...

The latest pilgrimage to Iona began June 11 at St. Columba’s Cathedral in the west coast town of Oban, where Bishop Brian McGee of Argyll and the Isles celebrated a 6 a.m. Mass for the pilgrimage.