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Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) The Saudi position, as the keeper of the holy places, is such that perhaps a dozen Muslim majority countries - Speech Link
2: Charles Walker (Con - Broxbourne) Let me be clear: whether it be Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or any other faith, we allow people - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Rutherglen itself is one of the oldest royal burghs in the land, granted its royal charter by King David - Speech Link
4: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) of land in towns and cities, surrounding railway stations, that no one in their right mind would see - Speech Link
5: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) people of Gaza are being driven from their land into the Sinai Egyptian desert. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) The most recent is young Hanna Abdimalik from Somaliland, a 24-year-old who converted to Christianity - Speech Link
2: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) It is close to the holy land and was one of the first countries to embrace Christianity. - Speech Link
3: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) burning of the Holy Koran in Sweden. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) all the more inspiring.The struggle for peace and justice in the Holy Land, which has been mentioned - Speech Link
5: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) of aggression has weaponised orthodox Christianity. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Religious Minorities in Nigeria - Tue 18 Apr 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) During Holy Week there were numerous attacks on Christians across Nigeria. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Finally, the Nigerian Government recognise the official holidays of Islam and Christianity, but they - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They want to go back to their land; they are farmers, and other land is available. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, for example, want to eliminate the presence of Christianity - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Christianity in Society - Thu 30 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (CON - Don Valley) The beautiful and symbolic church buildings across this land, with their tall steeples reaching for the - Speech Link
2: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) We are also now in the holy month of Ramadan, and Passover and Vaisakhi will soon be upon us as well. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) we approach Holy Week, when Christians across the UK and the world will reflect on both the sombre and - Speech Link
4: Felicity Buchan (CON - Kensington) My constituency has some of the major iconic churches in London: the Brompton Oratory; Holy Trinity Brompton - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights and Religious Minorities: Sudan - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That forces Christian women to adopt a disguise in public and prevents the sacrament of holy communion—a - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) The largest minority religions are Christianity and Shi’a Islam. - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Even in the home, we hear that converts to Christianity are being shunned or ostracised by their family - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Asylum and Refugee Policy - Fri 09 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishops - Bishops) The Government did not do this when they announced the policy in Holy Week this year—the most sacred - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bishops - Bishops) homes on meanwhile-use land. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bishops - Bishops) this foreign land”, as the famous hymn goes. - Speech Link
4: Lord Robathan (CON - Life peer) Bishops will be irrelevant if no one believes in Christianity. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) We are all, he says, pilgrims in a foreign land. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Persecution of Christians - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) law of the land said that that was impossible. - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) The kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls in 2014 had nothing to do with the fight over land, and nor - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) What is so sad is the decline of Christianity in the middle east, the home—or first home—of Christianity - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tributes to Her Late Majesty the Queen - Sat 10 Sep 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) You should hear the noise at Windsor castle of the jets coming in to land at Heathrow.”The Prime Minister - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) all trouble and sorrow.”The one English part of the service said in synagogues across the land every - Speech Link
3: David Duguid (CON - Banff and Buchan) being driven around the Balmoral estate by the Queen herself in a Land Rover. - Speech Link
4: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) Her next visit was in 1969—the year I was born—when she came to officially open Holy Trinity school, - Speech Link
5: James Sunderland (CON - Bracknell) The glue that actually binds military service at sea, on land and in the air is the democracy, freedom - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
British Museum: Ethiopian Sacred Altar Tablets - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bishops - Bishops) apart, as he has intimated, from any others in the British Museum and other museums across our land, - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) Some of these items are considered so sacred and holy that they can be looked at only by Ethiopian Orthodox - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Caroline Ansell (CON - Eastbourne) Friend seen the 2021 research report, “Defeating Minority Exclusion and Unlocking Potential: Christianity - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) of our land and seek to adopt best practice in meeting the global challenges of combating climate change - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) The Church has enormous amounts of land. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) The Church Commissioners’ land portfolio has the potential to deliver around 30,000 new homes across - Speech Link