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members of ACTS are also members of the SCC (i.e. all but the two smallest, namely the Congregational Federation and the Quakers). The SCC also includes the Baptist Church, the Free Church of Scotland and several smaller Presbyterian churches. The Secretary of the SCC is the Solicitor of the Church of Scotland. It also co-operates with the UK-wide Churches Legislation Advisory Services (CLAS), formerly known as the Churches' Main Committee.
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A separate body, the Scottish Churches' Committee, is responsible for liaison with public authorities on legal (rather than spiritual) matters - such as changes to legislation and the resulting effect on churches (such as planning law, changes to local government taxation, etc.). Seven of the nine
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ACTS was a place for churches to meet, experience, reflect, share and act together. There were a number of projects which ACTS coordinates across Scotland. It was not intended that ACTS should develop into a "superchurch". Prior to 2003, four member churches of ACTS were part of the "Scottish
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ACTS worked through its Programme Groups, Partner Group and Bodies in Association. Programme Groups (directly under the responsibility of ACTS) include the Scottish Churches Rural Group, Scottish Churches Anti-Human Trafficking Group and the Scottish Churches Education Group. Partner Groups
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Since June 2021 ACTS has been effectively superseded by the Scottish Church Leaders' Forum. By May 2022 ACTS remained in existence for legal and administrative purposes only, governed by its Trustees but without staff.
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In 2019, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland announced that ACTS would be succeeded by a new body to be called the Scottish Christian Forum. In 2021 it was decided not to go ahead with the SCF.
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The agenda of ACTS was set at a national level by the church denominations through their representatives on the "Members' Meeting". To comply with the requirements of the
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ACTS was the successor to the former Scottish Council of Churches. It was one of the four national ecumenical bodies in the UK, with equivalent bodies being
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Churches Initiative for Union" (which sought institutional unity - a project which ACTS was not part of), but a negative vote at the
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The principle of being Churches Together was of central importance to the work of ACTS. Essentially, this is known as the
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Report of the Ecumenical Relations Committee to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 2022, section 7
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from SCIFU. Henceforth, greater emphasis has been placed on the development of Local Ecumenical Partnerships.
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by churches at the third world conference on Faith and Order in August 1952.) This states:
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2017-2019 The Very Rev Monsignor Philip Kerr (Roman Catholic Church)
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When first created, the office of ACTS was located at the former
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Obituary of Maxwell Craig, The Herald, Glasgow, 6 October 2009
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The SCC response to changes in charity accounting regulations
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2011-2013 The Rev Dr Douglas Galbraith (Church of Scotland)
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Index

Scottish Council of Churches
Religion in Scotland

Church of Scotland
Catholic Church
Free Church of Scotland
Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
United Free Church of Scotland
Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Reformed Presbyterian
Church of Scotland

International Presbyterian Church
Associated Presbyterian Churches
Scottish Episcopal Church
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
Baptist Union of Scotland
Methodist Church of Great Britain
Latter-day Saints
Salvation Army
Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches
Congregational Federation
Action of Churches Together in Scotland
Scottish Reformation
Bahá'í Faith
Buddhism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Sikhism
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