One of the journalists who attended this week's event in the House of Lords, at which Fr.Steven Ochieng described his work in Turkana, wrote the following article which summarised Steven’s key messages. This is a great service that you may find of interest. ...
Takashi Nagai – atomic radiation and the suffering of Japan
Known affectionately as “the saint of Urakami”, Takashi Nagai died on May 1st, 1951, six years after the atomic bomb fell, on August 9th 1945, on his city of Nagasaki. A convert to the Catholic faith, Dr.Nagai, came from a family of doctors. He was a physician...
Libya and the arms trade
The spectre of British manufactured weapons and munitions being used to crush dissent and to wound, maim and kill pro democracy demonstrators in North Africa and the Gulf brings great shame to this country. Elsewhere, especially in fragile or destabilised regions of...
In Harmony – making music in West Everton at St.Mary and the Angels
The uplifting strains of Julian Lloyd Webber’s seventeenth century ‘Barjansky’ Stradivarius cello are guaranteed to transport even the weariest soul to another, better, place. Music has the power to penetrate our deepest, darkest, hidden places – healing,...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Replies to Questions about the targeting of Hazara community members by ISIS; whether the FCDO meet – Hazara representatives to discuss the continuing violence and persecution facing their community in Afghanistan; how they act on their admission that “minority groups such as the Hazara people face discrimination and attacks”; and why they wont publish their latest Joint Analysis of Conflict and Stability assessment on Afghanistan
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4200): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of...
Question about development funding for Pakistan to help create a national trust fund to support the education of children from the families of bonded labour and whether the UK will assist the government of Pakistan in seizing assets of owners of brick kilns illegally using bonded labour and repurposing those assets for the education and welfare of families trapped in bonded labour.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4261): Question by Lord Alton of LIverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ahmad of...
Tiananmen Massacre Commemorated At Westminster — 35 years after Tank Man stood in defiance of the CCP’s Tanks and 35 years after the fall of the Communist’s European Berlin Wall. “There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom” -Liu Xiaobo
The Tiananmen Square Massacre Has Been Commemorated At Westminster -- 35 years after Tank Man stood in defiance of the CCP's Tanks and 35 years after the fall of the Communist's European Berlin Wall. "There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for...