Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL6598): Question by Lord ALTON of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of...
Zhang Zhan – citizen journalists-targeted by the CCP for reporting on COVID-19. “I will continue to fight in a Christian way, even at the cost of my life.”
19 August 2021 CHINA: CSW CALLS FOR URGENT RELEASE OF CRITICALLY ILL ACTIVIST ON HUNGER STRIKE CSW urgently calls for the release of sentenced Chinese Christian human rights defender Zhang Zhan, whose health condition is in a critical state amid a...
Christmas Eve – NIGERIA: CHURCH LEADERS ABDUCTED AMID RENEWED VIOLENCE IN KADUNA STATE -report from CSW
Nigeria - Christians demonstrating peaceful against the bloodshed in Nigeria - after the murder of two Priests and their Parishioners during the celebration of Mass, in 2018 For Immediate Release 24 December 2020 NIGERIA: CHURCH LEADERS ABDUCTED AMID RENEWED VIOLENCE...
UK Government cites listing of North Korea as the country where “Christians face the most extreme persecution and has done so for the past 17 years,” welcomes Korea Future Initiative, and says it can use its new Global Human Rights sanctions regime against those responsible for persecution on grounds of religion or belief.
Religious believers in North Korea are incarcerated in prison camps. The UN Commission of Inquiry said the regime should be tried for crimes against humanity. Nothing has been done. UK Government cites listing of North Korea as the country where "Christians face the...
Westminster Symposium Attended By Several Hundred People To Mark The First Anniversary of The Publication of the Truro Review – Hosted Today Via The House of Lords
Welcoming Remarks at the commencement of the House of Lords Symposium Marking the First Anniversary of The Publication of the Truro Review of the Global Persecution of Christians https://youtu.be/hzJJeBtiGaQ Concluding Remarks https://youtu.be/DtKYrV7ZYQk The links to...
Today Is Red Wednesday: Stand Up for people persecuted for daring to be different – persecuted for their beliefs or religion by regimes and ideologies that refused to accept Article 18 of the Universal declaration of Human Rights. The Foreign Office, Lambeth Palace and Westminster Cathedral among those to light up red.
Today is Red Wednesday – when we think about the millions around the world who are persecuted because of their religion or belief. Today, spare a thought for the Uighur Muslims incarcerated in China, for...
The Issue of Religious Persecution: Coptic Solidarity Conference, Washington DC
At a conference on religious freedom, in Washington DC, organised at Capitol Hill by Coptic Solidarity, David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) called for an international worldwide day to highlight the right to freedom of religion or belief. Religious Persecution...
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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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...