Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need have released their bi-annual report on religious freedom.
In summary, they found that the situation for minority faith groups has deteriorated in 18 of the 38 countries under review.
The report covers these countries in more detail: India, Burma, Iraq, Philippines, Egypt, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Spain, France and Mexico.
Russia and Kyrgyzstan were added to the ‘discrimination’ category for the first time.
To launch the report, Lord David Alton of Liverpool invited Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Prime Minister’s special envoy on freedom of religion and belief to speak to a crowd of politicians, campaigners and journalists in the House of Lords.
Lord Ahmad spoke about how he was personally concerned with the issue of freedom of belief as an Ahmadi Muslim, a group who have also been targets of persecution.
@tariqahmadbt Lord Alton Fiona Bruce Lord Bates @garethrwallace @BishopAngaelos all in support of @acn_uk launching their Religious Freedom in the World report in @UKParliament pic.twitter.com/R4RiNWCZSu
— The CCF (@UK_CCF) November 22, 2018
Three politicians asked questions of Lord Ahmad.
Rehman Chishti MP, who resigned last week as Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party over the withdrawal agreement and the government’s response to Asia Bibi’s release challenged Lord Ahmad on the UK’s tentative attitude about saying whether…
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