UK:Quran reading causes offence at Scottish Episcopal Church in Glasgow

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It emerged last week that a passage from the Koran relating to the Virgin birth was read during a service at the Kelvinbridge cathedral.

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By BBC News | January 15, 2016

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The head of the Scottish Episcopal Church says the Church is "deeply distressed" at the offence caused by the reading of a passage from the Koran in a Glasgow cathedral.

The comments of the Church Primus, the Most Rev David Chillingworth, follow criticism that Islamic verses were read during an Epiphany service.

In his blog, he also condemned the abuse received by St Mary's Cathedral.

Police are investigating offensive online messages aimed at the church.

The primus, who is also Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, said the church wanted to bring together people involved in interfaith relations.
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It emerged last week that a passage from the Koran relating to the Virgin birth was read during a service at the Kelvinbridge cathedral.

Members of the city's Muslim community had been invited to join Epiphany celebrations at the church.

It provoked criticism because Muslims revere Jesus as a prophet - but not the son of God.

In his sermon on Sunday, the cathedral's provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, said the Epiphany service was aimed at promoting understanding between the two faiths.

But since then he had witnessed a "storm of abuse" from "10,000 'Christan' voices claiming to know what happened here that night."

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