Dear Sir, Madam,

As you are aware from Telephone communications with your offices Bloomsbury Baptist Church, London,  intend to go ahead with the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Carol  service this week.

We have written to Bloomsbury Baptist Church , not only this year but over the previous two years, indicating our  concerns that PSC is an anti-Israel activist organisation who do not give a Christian message but  demonise Israel which is against Scripture and of course all the evidence that Israel have the same rights to exist as any other nation.

We have not received a reply to  our communications and therefore I am writing to you in an effort to highlight some issues and to ask if the Baptist Union condone the invitation Bloomsbury Baptist Church  have given to PSC to hold this event on Church premises.

As you are aware Baptists in Gaza have been persecuted since 2000 when they ceased to be governed fully by Israel. Prior to that date Christians had the support and protection from Israel and ordinary Palestinian Arabs had a far higher standard of living than they do now. The murder of Rami Ayyad in October 2007, a prominent member of the Baptist Church and manager of the Christian Bookstore in Gaza,  highlighted the dangers of living under Palestinian Authority control and these dangers have increased  under  the HAMAS government. In February 2006 pipe bombs were placed outside the Christian book shop and Christianity Today reported that workers had received letters from Palestinian Arab terrorists demanding that the shop be closed. On 15th April 2007 the Bible society in Gaza was bombed  and in June 2007 the Baptist Pastor in Gaza, Hanna Massad, reported that the Church had been taken over by Palestinian terrorists.  These are only just a few examples of Christian persecution in Gaza.

The kidnap and forced marriage of Sana al-Sayegh,  a Christian university professor based in Gaza who was forced to marry a Muslim professor, was one of the first signs of the intentions of the  fundamentalist Muslim regime in Gaza to oppress women. Since that time as you will be aware, HAMAS are enforcing Sharia law which is oppressing women in Gaza in the same way as the Taliban were in Afghanistan.

The United nations are also deeply concerned about the abuse of children in Gaza when they are trained to hate Israel in HAMAS holiday camps. 

We find it difficult to understand that whilst we, along with thousands of Christians worldwide, are praying for the protection of the few remaining Christians in Gaza and for the human rights of  Palestinian Arab women and children, one of your own Baptist Churches are regularly  hosting a group who are  supporting their oppressors and persecutors.

I therefore write as a plea to you to respond to the calls for Bloomsbury Baptist Church to remove its alignment with this anti-Israel and anti-Christian activist organisation.

Please note this is an open letter.

In the name of Jesus

Michael Fryer