For more on Croagh Patrick also see "Pilgrim Ways" (Chapter beginning at page 82) http://www.issuu.com/davidalton/docs/pilgrim-ways?mode=window&pageNumber=2 Mountain tops – from Sinai to Tabor – along with the remote places and wildernesses have always been...
Cornwall's Christianity – from Launceston's Cuthbert Mayne to Liscard's Ladye Park, from John Wesley's Bodmin Cottage to Sclerder Abbeyto
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/08/12/walking-cornwalls-saints-way-forth-an-syns/ There is nowhere in England that retains a more direct association with early Celtic Christianity than Cornwall. This is evident in the churches, the wayside crosses, the wells and...
Cornwall’s Christianity – from Launceston’s Cuthbert Mayne to Liscard’s Ladye Park, from John Wesley’s Bodmin Cottage to Sclerder Abbeyto
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/08/12/walking-cornwalls-saints-way-forth-an-syns/ There is nowhere in England that retains a more direct association with early Celtic Christianity than Cornwall. This is evident in the churches, the wayside crosses, the wells and...
Walking Cornwall’s Saints’ Way – Forth an Syns – Following The Footsteps of The Celtic Saints
Encouragingly, the Angelus Bell was tolling at St. Petroc’s, the parish church of Padstow, as I and two companions set off to walk Cornwall’s Saints’ Way – Forth an Syns in the Cornish. Stretching over a distance of 30 miles, the Saints’ Way takes...
Pilgrim Ways
This is a spiritual journey into the ruin and extant monastic sites and churches of Catholic Britain. In treading the paths of the pilgrim way, one can find the way to God - this text aims to help bring about irrevocable change in a pilgrim's life. St Paul’s...
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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Lord Alton – Borders Bill – 26th June 2025.
Lord Alton made a speech on the Borders Bill urging Government to tackle the root causes of mass migration and displacement and to hit the smuggling gangs while upholding our obligation to protect the vulnerable. https://youtu.be/HLVBKjHRRpo Lord Alton of...
APPG for Pakistani Minorities Welcomes Historic Passage of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2025
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE31 May 2025 APPG for Pakistani Minorities Welcomes Historic Passage of Child Marriage Restraint Act 2025 London, UK — The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities warmly welcomes the signing of the Islamabad...
My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican’s embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights – and why, Hong Kong’s Venerable Cardinal, Joseph Zen, warned the Conclave’s voting Cardinals to avoid the whiff of red smoke.
My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican's embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights - and why...