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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

‘We hear your voices’: inside the Church of England’s debate over Palestine

A shot of a large meeting hall with members of the Church of England on the stage, a large crucifix in the background and people sat in seats in the stalls and to the side
The Archbishop of York giving the opening speech at the General Synod meeting in York last week. Photograph: Bridget Catterall/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live News.

Father Fadi Diab, a prominent Palestinian Anglican priest from Ramallah, watched quietly as the Church of England debated whether to formally hear a document describing Israel as a “colonial enterprise” that had inflicted a “genocidal war on Gaza”.

The motion passed overwhelmingly among bishops, clergy and laity – all three houses of the General Synod – last week.

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