{"id":2008,"date":"2025-08-06T11:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpit.uk\/?p=24606"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:01:22","slug":"gaza-calls-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"Gaza \u2013 Calls for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Church of Scotland, United Reformed Church, Methodist Church and Baptist Union have each called for change in light of the worsening treatment of people in Gaza. Each of the statements note our duty to speak out, witnesses to the blocking of food and vital supplies entering Gaza, and calls on the U.K. Government to act.<\/p>\n

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Following its General Assembly, the Church of Scotland wrote to the foreign secretary<\/a> after the Church \u2018condemned the resumption of the war on Gaza, the blockade of food and humanitarian aid, the ongoing forcible displacement of Gazans and the continued holding of hostages.\u2019 The letter witnessed to \u2018clear evidence of mass killings of civilians, of mass forced hunger, of mass forced displacement\u2019 and called for the restart of effective aid and a permanent ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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At its General Assembly, the United Reformed Church adopted a resolution<\/a> which<\/p>\n

\u2018(a) commends the June 2025 statement from the World Council of Churches with its call to \u2018End Apartheid, Occupation, and Impunity in Palestine and Israel\u2019 including the assertion that the Government of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza has entailed grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention which may constitute genocide and\/or other crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)<\/p>\n

(b) calls for a peaceful resolution to the continuing conflict in the Middle East through dialogue and diplomacy.\u2019<\/p>\n

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In a statement this July, the Baptist Union calls for<\/a><\/p>\n