GLASGOW: Qur’an recitation in St. Mary’s Cathedral
by David Virtue, VOL:
A recitation of the Qur’an took place in St. Mary’s Cathedral on Friday.
It was performed by someone called Madinah Javed.
The Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
There was a written translation in the booklets provided by the cathedral alongside the rest of the program.
You can see a video of it here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5tNnJAH45ZjMFN0dmhnSi0xbFE/view
https://www.facebook.com/madinah.javed/videos/10211919324364223/
On June 10, 2016 The Scottish Episcopal Church’s General Synod made the first steps of any Anglican Church in the UK towards allowing gay marriage in church. The synod voted that a change to its Canon law governing marriage should be sent for discussion to the church’s seven dioceses.
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali responds to this story: