A NEW commission on interfaith relations was launched last week, with a remit to identify and defuse potential areas of conflicts. The Area Bishop of Willesden, in London diocese, the Rt Revd Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, is the vice-chair of the Commission on Interfaith Relations, convened by the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, and launched on Tuesday. Bishop Nsenga-Ngoy said that the commission mattered “because we are living through a moment when global events are being felt deeply in local communities, often in ways that strain relationships and fuel misunderstanding. “We will not address every global conflict but will examine the most relevant global conflicts and their direct impact on UK faith relations.”The UK’s most prominent interfaith charity, the Inter Faith Network (IFN), closed in 2024 after government funding was withdrawn. The new Commission on Interfaith Relations will meet six times this year to discuss evidence from public-participation sessions around the UK.