Marnix has found this article written by Lynn Rusk 

_{Peter Oswald with a group of supporters before setting off from Bristol (Farooq Siddique/PA)}

A British playwright has embarked on a 150-mile fasting pilgrimage to raise funds for schoolchildren in Gaza and to stand up against Islamophobia.

Peter Oswald, a former writer in residence at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, set off from Bristol on Tuesday and will finish his 13-day journey in Parliament Square in London at the end of March.

“I’ve been teaching and helping schoolchildren in Gaza and the West Bank since 2017,” Mr Oswald told the PA news agency.

“That kind of personal contact with schoolchildren who you know are being heavily bombed is something that you obviously can’t ignore.

“I was actually involved with a group of schoolchildren in Gaza who were performing and rehearsing their own shortened version of King Lear. What they were doing was unimaginably beautiful.

“The way they acted, the way they spoke, I was very, very moved by that.

“Then suddenly the entire town was obliterated and that for me is something that lives with me all the time.”

As we continue to pray for the children of Gaza, perhaps we could pray for Peter and his work too.