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Churches Agency for Inter Faith Relations in Scotland (CAIRS)
Latest additions ...
Provisional date for Edinburgh Synagogue visit is November 8.
The July 2008 edition of The Bridge is available here.
The text of Rowan Williams' response to "A Common Word" - A Common Word for the Common Good is available here.
Places of Worship Database
A list of over 200 places of worship (excluding Churches) can be downloaded as a pdf file (280 Mb) here. Details of contacts, websites, and worship times and venues are included where available. BUT you should be aware that much of the information may be out of date. All information is from publicly available sources.
A common word between us and you
The text of the open letter from 138 Muslim scholars to the leaders of the Christian denominations can be downloaded as a pdf file here. See also the website, A Common Word, for responses to the open letter.
Coming next ...
- The next issue of The Bridge is due for publication on September 16.
Would you like to:
- Learn about people of different faiths?
- Fulfil your Christian vocation to be an agent of reconciliation
- Explore what it means to be a Christian in multi-faith Scotland?
CAIRS can:
- Provide speakers for Church groups to allow Christians to reflect on inter faith issues
- Run workshops on inter faith issues
- Negotiate with Church groups how best they want to explore these issues
- Provide material for Churches to mount an exhibition on inter faith work
CAIRS is the Scottish partner agency of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) Churches' Inter-Religious Network (formerly the Churches’ Commission for Inter Faith Relations, CCIFR). It is an Associated Ecumenical Group within the Faith Studies Network of Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS). The Network Officer is Tom Moyes.
CAIRS publishes an monthly e-bulletin, The Bridge. If you would like to be included in the mailing list for this, please send your e-mail address to the Education Officer.
Sharing of Faiths Prayer
Almighty ever-living God, Lord of the universe and Lord of our lives, we praise you. You have created us to be Your people, drawn from all the rich variety of the world's families and the world's Faiths.
We confess that we are prisoners of prejudice, bound by the chains of yesterday's wrongs and tomorrow's fears. We pray that You will forgive the wrong that we have done and set us free from our fear of one another, free to celebrate our beliefs and our liberty as one universal family under God.