Committee for Relations with People of Other Faiths

John Conway – reports on audit of interfaith activity. Committee were heartened by number of those who responded.

Extent of interfaith engagement varies extraordinarily across Scotland. (Apparently some people responded as though questions were about inter-church activity).

Festival of Spirituality has a lot of support from Piskies. This year’s theme is Faith, Hope and Reality.

Report notes that there are notable places out of urban areas where there are significant interfaith activity from more rural congregations.

A pisky congregation in Aberdeenshire is planning on a joint Bible and Koran reading event on 11 September for that anniversary.

Just War Questions

David Mumford asks what committee are doing to allow the church to consider the ecumenical report on Just War issues.

Ian Barcroft says that we are were in the ecumenical group that produced the report. Wants feedback from responses to the report from church and will be happy to feed back responses to synod.