THE brother of the Scottish humanitarian aid worker who was beheaded by Islamic State militants has reached out to people of other faiths and said evil can be defeated by communities coming together.
David Haines, 44, from Perth, was working in Syrian refugee camps when he was kidnapped in March last year.
Footage of the father-of-two's murder at the hands of the killer dubbed Jihadi John was released on the internet in September.
His brother Mike has vowed to carry on David Haines's humanitarian work, and has been travelling around the country to meet people with other religious beliefs.
His journey is featured on today's Songs of Praise programme, and it shows Mike Haines visiting the Bradford Central Mosque. Before shaking hands with Zulfiqar Karim, who was worshipping there, he told him: "You can try and fight this evil by becoming friends by sharing our communities, by learning about each other because that's what they hope to destroy."
On the BBC programme, Mike Haines said: "David spent his life serving others and it's this legacy that I want to continue. He went to places to help people, no matter faith, creed or background."
Speaking about his interfaith conversations, Haines, who is a Christian, said: "We all need to have our own beliefs.
"I have talked to God many times ... He has given me the strength to see that for all the evil that's been done there is an amazing amount of good in our nation."
David Haines was the third Western hostage - and first Briton -paraded on camera by the extremist organisation. Born in Holderness, East Yorkshire, he was raised in Scotland and attended Perth Academy. His parents live in Ayr. He had a four-year-old daughter with his Croatian wife, Dragana, and a teenage daughter, Bethany, from an earlier marriage.
He served in the RAF and worked for ScotRail before beginning his career as a humanitarian worker in the 1990s, serving in the Balkans, Libya and South Sudan.
David was working for French aid agency Acted when he was kidnapped in Syria.
The programme will broadcast on BBC1 at 3pm today.
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