Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) I served as a Minister both in the Home Office and in the Ministry of Justice. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They were never a threat because they said that they had become Christians. - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) They are even more traumatised, and they relive that trauma all over again, when they see Members of Parliament - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Back in February 2020, more than 150 Labour peers and Members of Parliament went out of their way to - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Kurdistanis elected their first Parliament in 1992 and, despite harsh Iraq and UN sanctions, laid the - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The second, because I am the secretary of the NUJ—National Union of Journalists—group in Parliament, - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Christians, Yazidis and Sunni Muslims have arrived in the region for protection from persecution in their - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Member for Strangford for raising the plight of Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities in - Speech Link
5: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) particular about the situation facing Christians and Yazidis, which was also referred to by the SNP - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gregory Campbell (DUP - East Londonderry) in the number of Christians being killed or abducted? - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Christians killed in 2023 were Nigerian.Following a devastating year for Christians, many were looking - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) More than 4,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria last year alone. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I thank her for that, and I congratulate her on getting a Bill through Parliament to establish in law - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Polak, and I met a group of students here in Parliament only yesterday. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) At the time, I was a graduate student in Oxford, writing about the European Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) I have felt this very strongly in meetings I have been at in Parliament in respect of the atrocities - Speech Link
4: Lord Parekh (Lab - Life peer) They were tolerant of other minorities—of Christians, Jews, Parsees and others—but not of Muslims. - Speech Link
5: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) In my 40 years in Parliament, or thereabouts, I have rarely heard a more moving contribution. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Parliament, responding to parliamentary questions and in Select Committees.On Gaza, the hon. - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) It is extremely worrying that a Member of Parliament is standing down because of the pressure that is - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) to her attention the state of freedom of religion or belief; this week, I raise the persecution of Christians - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Bill through the Parliament in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Over Christmas, several Christians were arrested in Iran, with no response yet from the FCDO—again, we - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) Elections will of course be held on 1 March to Iran’s Parliament, but they can in no way can be considered - Speech Link
4: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) At the beginning of March, there will be elections to the Iranian Parliament and the Assembly of Experts - Speech Link
5: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) Women’s representation in the Iranian Parliament sits at 5.6%.The UK is taking several bilateral and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) There is no other Parliament in the world with so many parliamentarians who regards this as a critical - Speech Link
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) Lady rightfully mentioned the watch list launched last week in Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) 155 against Christians, in 145 against Muslims and in 94 against Jews. - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) seminal report on which so much of the work in Parliament in the years following has been based.Although - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) This year’s event took place last week here in Parliament, with just under 100 Members of Parliament - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) That is one in every seven Christians worldwide. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Christians in India in recent years. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Sadly, that is far from being a reality.This week, we will mark Holocaust Memorial Day in Parliament - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) , Sikhs, Ahmadis and Christians in Pakistan; forced detention of protesters in Iran; and, of course, - Speech Link
3: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Cynics say, “What will a vote in a Parliament, thousands of miles away from Palestine, do for Palestinians - Speech Link
4: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) Secondly, it tells us that Ministers hid that fact, pretending in Parliament and in the media that they - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) One in five schools does not offer RE in the curriculum in year 7—they are breaking their statutory responsibilities - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) This results in the teaching of RE in many schools simply being inadequate. - Speech Link
3: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) no religion, with just 18% saying they were Christians. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) My class therefore ended up doing more RE in French A-level than they did in RE. - Speech Link