One year after the Arab Spring many people are asking what difference the revolutions have made to the position of the region’s people. The game of grandmother’s footsteps which has seen the toppling of dictators, and some tentative reform in countries like Morocco,...
Letter To The Times – December 9th – from Lady Cox and David Alton Warning of New Genocide in Sudan
http://www.sudantribune.com/Activists-petition-UN-for,41054 Letters To The Times: December 9th 2011 Stop the genocide in South Sudan December 9 2011 12:01AM Unless the international community intervenes, Khartoum will believe it can continue its genocidal...
December 9th 2011 British Parliamentary Debate On The Plight Of Christians In The Middle East
http://www.copts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3437&Itemid=1 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/l_19.htm House of Lords Friday, 9 December 2011. 10 am Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle. Christians in the Middle...
Westminster Meeting On Religious Persecution Worldwide
US Religious Freedom Tsar Tells UK MPs: Christians Face Increasing Persecution Worldwide London, 1st December 2011 http://www.dignitatishumanae.com/ For Immediate Release The head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has said Christians...
The Plight of Egypt's Copts – 100,000 in exodus since March
Arab Spring Question: Tuesday November 29th 2011 2.36 pm Asked by Baroness CoxTo ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the implications of the Arab spring for religious minorities in the countries concerned. The Minister of State, Foreign and...
Report on the first International Conference to be held at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology and How the University Came Into Being
Pyongyang’s First International Conference on Science and Technology: and the remarkable story of Dr.James Kim and the Genesis of PUST. October 2011. We were an unlikely cast - a United States astronaut who had been four times in Space; a Nobel Laureate, who had...
Tentative Steps Towards Religious Reconciliation in North Korea: Vatican Radio Interview
History was made this week as a delegation of religious leaders from South Korea crossed into the communist ruled North on an official visit. The Conference of Religion for Peace delegation includes representatives from the Catholic Catholic Church and other Christian...
Dignitatis Humanae – The case for religious freedom
In Western democracies the contemporary debate about religious freedom often revolves around philosophical differences over the parameters between church and state, and between secular and religious values. By contrast, for millions of others, including many of the...
John Lee Tae-Sok: Korean Schweitzer among Sudan's lepers – "Don't Cry For Me Sudan"
A few months ago I hosted a delegation from North Korea which included the Speaker of their national Assembly, Choe Tae Bok. During the visit each member of the delegation was presented with a DVD celebrating the life of a remarkable Korean who has become known as...
Ethnic Cleansing in Southern Kordofan: When the Stars Fall To Earth http://starsfalltoearth.com/
On July 9th the world’s newest nation was born. Under the presidential leadership of Salva Kiir Southern Sudan’s 10 million people finally broke free from the grip of Khartoum. It is twelve years since I first entered Southern Sudan, travelling in with the Sudan...
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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New Opium War Targeting Democratic Countries – raised by Secretary Blinken with CCP leadership – and Minister says illicit labs in China have “been linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK during the last year, and we are taking action.”
Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3921): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the production and distribution of illicit...
Yazidis on Sinjar: Government responds to questions asking what assessment they have made of the security situation in Sinjar and what discussions they have had, with the government of Turkey, in relation to Turkish military attacks on Sinjar.
Yazidis on Sinjar: Government responds to questions asking what assessment they have made of the security situation in Sinjar and what discussions they have had, with the government of Turkey, in relation to Turkish military attacks on Sinjar. As occurred with the...
Forty year campaign demanding justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests in the 50s – with one Commons debate in the 80s taking place in the middle of the night, at 3.50 am. Today just 1500 of the 20,000 servicemen put in harms way are still alive. The Defence Minister, Earl Minto, deserves thanks for his straightforward reply in the Lords yesterday. However long it takes, injustices must be put right.
Throughout the 80s I campaigned for justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests. On one occasion I initiated a debate in the Commons at 3.50 am in the middle of the night - a debate that the Government didn't want. Today just 1500 of the 20,000...