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Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) world’s most serious instances of persecution in countries such as Nigeria, India, Iran, Russia and China - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) given the link between persecution and displacement, now at a record 114 million people.I will discuss China - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) ignorance or conformity”.As with others in the Chamber during this debate, when we have seen persecution in China - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) mentioned: North Korea is still ranked as the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian; China - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) I assure the noble Lord that we remain much seized of the case of Leah Sharibu.India and China were raised - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Old Windsor (XB - Life peer) One country that has certainly got this message is China. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) Both Russia and China are actively trying to isolate the free world from Africa. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fall (Con - Life peer) live, kinetic even, and China is in the waiting room. - Speech Link
4: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) The historian Tom Holland says in Dominion:“So profound has been the impact of Christianity on the development - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) What would happen if a professor expressed at an event a view relating to China, for example—and was - Speech Link
2: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) industry—by campaigning that the products are bought from there and not, say, from Germany, Japan, China - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) One is blanket prohibitions about statements, even on matters such as Uighurs in China. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) denies the Jewish historical connection to Israel in theological terms, and advocates supersession of Christianity - Speech Link
5: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) So the sermons of Jesus printed in totalitarian China were permitted, but they were banned if they were - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) covid, the number of baptisms in the Church of England has fallen from 140,000 a year to 87,000, so Christianity - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) the Home Secretary has asked for more information about the extent to which migrants converting to Christianity - Speech Link
3: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP - Glasgow South) applications in strategic and sensitive areas as being of high interest to an authoritarian regime such as China - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) We will continue to take a robust and proactive approach towards our relationship with China, rooted - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) I hope that, when I stand up in your Lordships’ House and talk about China and the Muslims in Xinjiang - Speech Link
2: Lord Parekh (Lab - Life peer) Well, Christianity accused Jews of deicide—that is an old story—and another element was added: Jews turned - Speech Link
3: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) It sprung from the history of European civilisation and Christianity, and when it was unleashed by the - Speech Link


Parliamentary Research
Freedom and democracy in Iran - CDP-2024-0019
Jan. 26 2024

Found: Rouhani was Iranian president from 2013 to 2021 and signed the 2015 Nuclear Agreement with China, Russia


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) differential targets for richer countries, less-developed countries and large countries such as India and China—although - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Christianity here is said to have had its origins in that part of the world, thanks to the efforts of - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) We do not see any equivalent action from Russia, China and so on. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The IFC has in recent years funded private sector projects including: a multi-storey pig farm in China - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
North Korea - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) At the end of the day, if anyone owns the relationship with the DPRK, it is China. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) the creation of the North Korean state in the 1940s, religious communities, including Buddhism and Christianity - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) China has a mutual defence agreement with North Korea. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) there is a lack of co-ordination with allies such as the US and the EU.When dealing with states such as China - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) The United Kingdom Government are right to recognise the challenge that China presents to established - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Debt in Africa - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) It is not my style of Christianity. - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) countries and multilateral lenders like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, but now we see China - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) Importantly, of course, this is a G20 initiative, built on consensus, and delays by some members, such as China - Speech Link