Constructive Talks with Mohammad Nafees Zakaria Pakistan’s High Commissioner to London and with Rehman Chishti MP, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on freedom of Religion or belief. As the Coronavirus takes lives, women like Shagusta Kauser should be freedom from jail.

Constructive Talks with Mohammad Nafees Zakaria Pakistan’s High Commissioner to London and with Rehman Chishti MP, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on freedom of Religion or belief. As the Coronavirus takes lives, women like Shagusta Kauser should be freedom from jail.

It was a great pleasure  to meet Mohammad Nafees Zakaria, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to London during a meeting on March 17th at the High Commission in London. We discussed the Coronavirus crisis and the challenges which it poses for our two great Commonwealth...

Conservative Home December 27th : “It is no secret that some senior civil servants in the Foreign Office do not share the Prime Minister’s commitment to implementing the Truro Recommendations.” Why he is right and they are wrong. And the persecution they ignore in China.

Conservative Home December 27th : “It is no secret that some senior civil servants in the Foreign Office do not share the Prime Minister’s commitment to implementing the Truro Recommendations.” Why he is right and they are wrong. And the persecution they ignore in China.

https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2019/12/david-alton-now-is-the-time-to-deliver-on-johnsons-commitments-to-persecuted-christians.html On Boxing Day 2018 Jeremy Hunt MP, then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, announced that he had asked...

Christmas in Pakistan: shocking story of Christian woman while Dawn details the case of an academic from Pakistan, Junaid Hafeez, who has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges by a Court in Multan. He has already spent 6 years in solitary confinement, which in human rights law must amount to torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to the provisions of Article 7 of the ICCPR (to which Pakistan is a State Party). Multan is the city where Shagufta Kauser, once again  spent Christmas – in the cell previously occupied by Asia Bibi – and separated from her disabled husband, Shafqat Emmanuel. He is paralysed from the chest down and is also incarcerated on blasphemy charges, sentenced to death, and separated from their four children, aged between 9 and 15. Also, the case of a 14 years old Christian girl Huma, who was kidnapped, forcibly converted and married to her abductor, in Karachi. And this shocking story: “They Forced Me Down, All I Did Was Pray”: the account of a Pakistani Christian rape survivor

In his Christmas message, the Prime Minister reminded us that millions of people would be unable to freely celebrate Christmas. These bleak stories from Pakistan – a Commonwealth country - is a graphic illustration of how bad it can get for vulnerable people whose...

The Truro Report

The Truro Report

https://youtu.be/49hJQtJHA38 A year ago the Bishop of Truro’s Report into the persecution of 250 million Christians world-wide  said of Nigeria: “Reports consistently showed that in Nigeria, month after month, on average hundreds of Christians were being killed...

Building Bridges – Is there hope for North Korea?

Building Bridges – Is there hope for North Korea?

For sixty years North Korea has had neither war nor peace; simply an Armistice signed in 1953 – this lack of resolution has perpetuated instability, fear, and a risk of further tragedy. Behind the backdrop is the ever present danger of a major conflict. Lord Alton...

Passion and Pain

Passion and Pain

A book of prayers for persecuted Christians by Lord David Alton. (with Michele Lombardo) and accompanying DVD of TV series  2003Click here to read the full book online.

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Questions about the number of children in Sudan who are (1) affected by malnutrition, and (2) no longer in education, due to the war; and about the percentage of UK aid to Sudan that (1) reaches recipients via emergency response rooms, and (2) supports emergency response rooms.

Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5805): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the...

Government responds to question asking what steps they are taking to ensure sustained medical and psychosocial support for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Africa, particularly through the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative; and how they are working with international partners to strengthen long-term policy provisions for survivors in conflict-affected regions

Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5873): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure...

Africa Minister response to Questions about Tigray; about the risk of conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea; monitoring the implementation of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement; about illegal gold mining and human trafficking in Tigray; and the continued presence of Eritrean troops in Tigray

Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL5872): Questions by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the...