Why the Church of England has got Israel wrong
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Dr James Patrick2026-07-14T14:07:00
The UK’s Jewish community needs to know that the Archbishop of Canterbury’s views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict do not speak for all British Christians. That’s according to Dr James Patrick of Love Never Fails Ministries, who says both yesterday’s General Synod vote endorsing Kairos Palestine II and Sarah Mullally’s pastoral letter following her visit to the Holy Land, risk deepening divisions and presenting a one-sided account of the conflict
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