The Astonishing article by Justin Welby in the Sunday Times

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Last week,  Archbishop Justin Welby wrote a piece for the Sunday Times in which he lamented the decline in the Christian Community in the Middle East.

The piece was called 'Let us pray for the Christians being driven from the Holy Land'.

In it, Welby drew readers’ attention to the 'frequent and sustained attacks by fringe radical groups' in Israel, arguing that this was behind the sharp decline in the Christian population in Jerusalem.

Nowhere else in the region. Only the Jewish state.

It is vital that we write to both Justin Welby AND the Sunday Times and point out this utter hypocrisy in Welby not calling out the islamic terror groups that we all know are purging the region of Christians!

Here are the relevant emails:

pa.archbishop@lambethpalace.org.uk

letters@sunday-times.co.uk

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Here is the email AOA has sent. Please feel welcome to use it, or tweak it etc.

Dear Justin Welby

It was with real astonishment that we read your piece in last week's Sunday Times Let us pray for the Christians being driven from the Holy Land.

May we ask why you chose to single out the only nation in the whole region where in fact, the number of Christians has in fact increased? 

And where as you well know, Christians are able to safely practise their faith....?

You totally ignore the constant anti-Christian violence across the region, which our very own Foreign Office has described as 'coming close to genocide'.

You don't so much as refer to this. 

Instead, your sole focus is on the one and only Jewish state.

You must, of course, know that in Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Egypt, the anti-Christian oppression is by Islamic groups.

 In Iran, Algeria and Qatar, it is the state that carries out routine persecution of Christians.

Yet not a single reference to any of this in your article.

The Christian population in the region has declined from 20 per cent a century ago to just 5 per cent today. Yet, to reiterate, in Israel the Christian population has in fact increased.

One has to wonder just why you decided to imply that the sole anti Christian activity in the region occurs in the one and only Jewish state.

The answer is an unpalatable one.

Perhaps you would care to pen a follow-up piece, clarifying that in Israel, Christians live freely, safely and happily...?

Unless of course you are content to contribute to the rising antisemitism that Jews are experiencing right now.

Sincerely

T Caplan

Action On Antisemitism

www.actiononantisemitism.orgThis