Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Peter Aldous

Tuesday 22nd January 2019 Commons Chamber

[Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)]

With India entering the Open Doors world watch list top 10 and now designated as a country where Christians experience extreme prosecution, what steps is the Foreign Secretary taking to promote the importance of religious freedom in India?

[Mr Hunt]

As my hon. Friend knows, I have just asked Bishop Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Truro, to do an independent report on what more we can do to support the quarter of a billion Christians across the world facing persecution, but in India the British high commission regularly meets minority communities, including Christian groups, and we have recently enabled training for 900 minority students on faith issues in six universities.