The Catholic Church appears not to have noticed the significance of two recent developments. Women have been accepted not only as readers, but also as ministers of the Eucharist. They are thus involved in the biblical word and in the distribution of the sacraments, two main components of worship. The general acceptance of girls as altar…
1 July 2010 : Column 1906 2.34 pm Lord Hylton: My Lords, I intend to confine myself to our objectives within the Middle East. Our national interest lies in trade. On Tuesday, I took part in a live video link between this Parliament and some Palestinian MPs, all of whom, as it happens, were threatened…
I should be most grateful if you would ask your Government to defer, or better still, cancel the deportation from East Jerusalem of the following persons: Mr Khalid Abu Arafa, former Minister for Jerusalem Affairs; Mr Ahmed Attoun; Mr Mohamed Abu Tayr; Mr Mohamed Imran Totah All four were elected to the Palestinian Legislature in…
Kosovo was part of the former Yugoslavia. The majority of its population are Albanians, but there is a Serb minority mainly living in the North East of the territory. In addition, there are several historic Serbian orthodox monasteries, dating from the Middle Ages. At least two of them are UNESCO listed sites and they also…
Here is the text of my speech, in which I stressed the following issues; the importance of religious factors for UK foreign and defence policy; the need to distinguish between religiously motivated resistance to enemy occupation and ideological terrorism; and the fact that we should support unofficial diplomacy and work for conflict. My Lords, I…
