A Parable for Good Friday and What Easter Means To Me

A Parable For Good Friday - sent to me by Jonathan tame of Friday Fives: A wealthy industrialist and his son loved to collect great works of art. They would often sit together to discuss and appreciate the paintings in their collection,  which ranged from Raphael to...

Matteo Ricci and Lessons for China and Religious Liberty

This week, the Holy See held a three day meeting to discuss the state of Catholicism in China. Before their meeting, participants could have done a lot worse than read Mary Laven’s superb “Mission to China” – which charts the sixteenth century encounter of the...

Coercive Population Control – the one child policy

    China has many great achievements of which it can be justifiably proud. The one child policy, and the coercion on which it is based,  is not one of them......Pasted below is some of the background to this contentious issue, a policy which has been...

April 2011 Massacre at Camp Ashraf

Camp Ashraf Massacre and Secretary Gate’s Visit to Iraq On April 6, 2011, early in the morning, the military forces of Iraqi government, about 2500 of them, stormed the campground of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI /...

2011 North Korean Delegation in London

Almost every week parliamentary delegations arrive at Westminster:  nothing unusual about that.  What was unusual about the delegation which I recently hosted was that they were from North Korea, and, indeed, that North Korea is a member of  the Inter Parliamentary...

Why I will reluctantly vote no to AV on May 5th

In just under three weeks the country will be offered the chance to vote for a different voting system. There will be many competing views about the respective merits of the current first-past the post (FPTP) system and the proposed Alternative Vote (AV). Yet for...

Lord David Alton

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...