Oral Question·Church Commissioners
“To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what support the Church of England is providing to Christians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
Tabled: 20 November 2025Answered: 27 November 2025
Asked by
James Asser
Labour — West Ham and Beckton
Answering Minister
the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners
Answer from Hansard
Sir Alan Campbell
The Archbishop of York visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories earlier this month. He met Palestinian families on the west bank and addressed the congregation at St Andrew’s church in Ramallah. He also visited villages and highlighted the way that settlers are, in the Archbishop’s own words, “squeezing out” Palestinians.