UK Africa Minister says "We have urged the governments of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt to find agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam." Tigray: Letter from Africa Minister says UK is "working closely with humanitarian organisations to make sure aid reaches...
As the last Christian is expelled from Mosul by ISIS – Times Article on why the world must respond to the cry of Iraq's Christians – and the full text of the House of Lords debate on Article 18 and Freedom of Belief – with news of Meriam Ibrahim's journey to Rome and ISIS subjecting women to female genital mutilation
http://blog.geopolitical-info.com/?p=957Article 18 – An article of faith Lord AltonAugust 12, 2014The United Nations doctrine ‘responsibility to protect’ has been flouted by the failure of international authorities to protect vulnerable minorities from sweeping...
As the last Christian is expelled from Mosul by ISIS – Times Article on why the world must respond to the cry of Iraq’s Christians – and the full text of the House of Lords debate on Article 18 and Freedom of Belief – with news of Meriam Ibrahim’s journey to Rome and ISIS subjecting women to female genital mutilation
http://blog.geopolitical-info.com/?p=957Article 18 – An article of faith Lord AltonAugust 12, 2014The United Nations doctrine ‘responsibility to protect’ has been flouted by the failure of international authorities to protect vulnerable minorities from sweeping...
Egypt's Kristallnacht – Speech in The House of Lords October 2013 and Tribute to Dr.Helmy Guirguis, founder of the UK Copts
Remarks by Lord Alton of Liverpool at a Memorial Service for Dr.Helmy Guirguis - Founder of the UK Copts - at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 6.30 pm, March 3rd 2015. In 1997, when I was raised to the Peerage as a Baron, and entered the House of Lords, one...
Egypt’s Kristallnacht – Speech in The House of Lords October 2013 and Tribute to Dr.Helmy Guirguis, founder of the UK Copts
Remarks by Lord Alton of Liverpool at a Memorial Service for Dr.Helmy Guirguis - Founder of the UK Copts - at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, 6.30 pm, March 3rd 2015. In 1997, when I was raised to the Peerage as a Baron, and entered the House of Lords, one...
Egypt – A Second Revolution?
Last week saw the second anniversary of the seismic events which led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. It also saw the beginning of a second Egyptian revolution – which many fear could lead to a full scale civil war, plunging Egypt into the fratricide which...
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...
Egypt Universe Article
Egypt I have just returned from an investigation into the situation of the Church in Egypt organised by the interdenominational human rights organisation, the Jubilee Campaign. It follows the massacre in May last year, of 13 Christians living in Daryut, a town in...
Egypt Universe Article 2
Article For Universe by David Alton Egypt During my recent trip to Egypt, I had the privilege of meeting with the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, 117th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark. He leads a church whose origins go...
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...