He was speaking at the Labour Party’s annual conference church service on Sunday, organised by the group Christians on the Left.

Mr Corbyn described Christians standing against injustice as “the very best” of the Christian faith.

He added: “I thank Christians and other faith communities and faith organisations for the work they do in our communities supporting the vulnerable and oppressed, and my message to you is that the values of solidarity, loving our neighbours, unity in our communities and seeking justice at home and abroad are the values that we hold dear in the Labour Party and will continue to do so.”

The service was dedicated to raising awareness and praying for victims of human trafficking and modern day slavery, which is part of International Justice Mission’s annual Freedom Sunday campaign.

Mr Corbyn added: “Isaiah chapter 1 verse 17 reads ‘Seek justice. Defend the oppressed.’ This message is close to my heart as leader of the Labour Party and any Labour government that I lead will have global justice at its heart and we will seek justice for all and defend the oppressed at home and abroad – be they refugees, victims of human trafficking and modern slavery or those living in poverty.”

The Labour leader was presented with a Bible at the service which was attended by delegates, members, MPs, and local churchgoers.

The preacher was Baroness Maeve Sherlock,…

He described the pain felt by the Co Tyrone teenager’s family as “heartrending”, and also issued a fresh plea for information to find the final three Disappeared victims that have not yet been found, including former monk Joe Lynskey and soldier Robert Nairac.

All three were among 16 murdered and secretly buried by the IRA and INLA during the Troubles.

“I once more appeal to the conscience of anyone who has information that might help find Columba, Joe Lynskey or Robert Nairac, to come forward to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains, so that the remaining families can experience the consolation of being able to offer their loved ones a Christian burial,” he said.

“The slightest clues could lead to them. Please help end their heartache.

“I appeal also to those carrying long-held secrets, from what were awful, terrible times, to share what information they have – they may hold the key to unlocking the uncertainty and grief of those families who are still desperately waiting and hoping.

“I ask everyone to keep the families of the Disappeared in their prayers during these difficult days.”

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There are nearly 20,000 ordained ministers in the Church of England; in Iraq there is just one.

That one Anglican vicar is Rev Faez Jirjees, who, aged 53, is the parish priest at St George’s Church in Baghdad where Canon Andrew White used to work.

Christians make up about one per cent of the population in Iraq but many of them fled when Islamic State (IS) were at their most brutal.

Despite being bombed several times, St George’s Church in the capital has, for a long time, bucked the trend by being a hub for interfaith relations, providing healthcare to Christians, as well as Shia and Sunni Muslims through its clinic, dentist’s, pharmacy and laboratories.

The church also hosts a nursery, primary school and a ‘hope centre’ that helps train young people with vocational skills for jobs.

Rev Jirjees’ parents dedicated him to become a priest as a child and he served in the Anglican church close to his house as a boy.

He explained that part of his calling to ministry was meeting Rt Rev Michael Lewis, Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf several times, who he found extremely kind towards others.

However, being a church leader was something he forgot about for a few decades.

“I did the normal college and education and I started working and got married and I forgot about being a priest but I went back to this field when I was 40 years old.”

On a trip to the UK, Rev Jirjees, the first…

Stefika Smith, 17, was reportedly found with a single stab wound to the throat in rural May Pen, in the island’s south, two days after she disappeared on May 10.

She was just two weeks away from her 18th birthday when she was killed.

Stefika, who grew up in Thornton Heath, south London, had been taken to live in the Caribbean in the summer of 2016 by her parents, Pauline, 54, and Morris, 56, who were both born in Jamaica.

Pauline told the Sunday People: “I’ve lost an angel. There was a lot of knife crime in London and I wanted to take Stefika away from those dangers.

“We wanted to her to have the same idyllic life my husband and I had growing up in Jamaica. But wicked people put an end to that.

“My beautiful sweet daughter left what we saw as a knife threat but became a stabbing victim herself where we took her to be safer. I still cannot take it in.”

Stefika was a pupil at Norbury Manor Business Enterprise College for Girls and sang at the gospel choir of the New Testament Church of God in Brixton before moving to Jamaica for a new life, according to the paper.

Her family, who hoped she might return to the UK to go to university, said they are now fighting to bring Stefika’s killer to justice, but no charges have been brought.

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While welcoming the money being spent on the issue, charity Christian Aid says funds shouldn’t be taken from the aid budget.

It wants that money to be spent directly on those in need.

Boris Johnson is announcing plans for the Clean Energy Fund at the United Nations in New York, allowing experts to use up to a billion pounds of the aid budget to invent new technology.

Ahead of his announcement, the PM said: “I have always been deeply optimistic about the potential of technology to make the world a better place. If we get this right, future generations will look back on climate change as a problem that we solved by determined global action and the prowess of technology.”

Responding to today’s funding announcements Dr Alison Doig, head of global policy at Christian Aid, said: “The real test of the scientific investment in tackling the climate emergency will be whether it delivers for people in poverty who – while having contributed least to this crisis – are the first and worst affected by climate change.

“The world’s poorest should not be an afterthought, but aspects of today’s announcement suggest they are not being seen as the priority in tackling climate change. Climate change must be viewed as a triple emergency: of poverty, climate and biodiversity, and so a joined-up approach must be reflected in any UK approaches to tackling it.

“Today’s announcements in New…