Reverend Paget in the Telegraph.

SIR – Returning from two months' study leave in Syria and Turkey, I was saddened to read of the continuing dogmatic persecution of Christians in this country.
In secular Syria and Turkey – unlike lawless Iraq – ordinary Muslims and Christians freely express and practise their religion with little interference from the government.
Granted, this laissez-faire arrangement is sometimes undermined by religious extremists, culturally insensitive "missionaries", and disingenuous Western political strategists in the Middle East.
But one thing that does not impinge on this model is the aggressive, doctrinaire atheism that increasingly informs so much of secular Britain.
Syrian and Turkish Christians and Muslims alike were appalled to learn that in England people were being sacked simply for wearing crosses to work or for offering to pray for people there. "What are their employers afraid of," asked one astonished Muslim.
We hear much talk of respect and tolerance from politicians, yet they and our laws seem powerless to protect these two essentials of any truly liberal society.
Rev R. C. Paget, Brenchley, Kent.