Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We're in a 24-hour digital media world now, so we are aware of things that are happening on the other side of the world that maybe we weren't aware of previously. These kinds of atrocities were happening in the past, but we didn't necessarily know about them. Again, the evidence

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Of course it has an impact, but I also have a complete set of what I call BBC DNA in me. My BBC DNA tells me that you have to look at the evidence and you have to tell fairly, reliably, and accurately what's going on. If that involves criticizing church leaders or whatever if the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. I would just remind you, as my host Don is here, to go to worldwatchmonitor.org if you want to look out for more. Thank you very much.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, it is, and coming back, of course, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as the Americans would put it, what's the pursuit of happiness? How do you as an individual citizen follow your dream of what it is to be happy? I would argue that it's to have freedom of cons

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The latest thing, as I understand it, is that the judiciary agree. The Pakistani judiciary have realized that there are a lot of loopholes in the blasphemy laws, I think particularly in the light of the latest atrocity in Lahore, where, although many Muslims were killed as well,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Do I agree with the proposition...?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It can. I'm not saying it always does, but the evidence shows that where there is religious persecution, there is also repression of.... For example, in Boko Haram, there's repression of the rights of women and children. They are raped, tortured, traumatized, abused, taken away f

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, let me just finish this one; it's quite interesting. She said that because the German government had said it would take Syrian refugees, everybody was claiming to be Syrian, so she was starting to say to them, “What's your name? Which part of Syria are you from?” She said it

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's not surprising; it's a civil war. I would say hundreds of thousands, if not a million.... I don't know. I don't want to put a figure on it at all, but many, many Christians have fled Syria over the last five years, as have many others of the civilian population. However,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm an admirer of Pope Francis. He's living out his Christian faith through the very practical things he does in washing the feet of homeless people and those very tangible symbols that he enacts in his own life. When he goes to a refugee camp like the one on the island of Lesbos

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The main barriers are just protecting our sources and protecting the people whose story we want to tell. Quite often they're terrified, and the last thing they want is for us to spread in the media the story of what's happened to them, so we're always dealing with a very complex

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I have friends in Pakistan now who are working on the educational curriculum of Pakistan, and you might have seen that there was a recent report just a few weeks ago. I think the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or one of those bodies, did a report on the educa

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's a big question. When you say the “relationship”, could you be a bit more precise about what's behind your question?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If you look at many countries around the world, you'll see that there's a whole combination of factors. I live in London. It's a very multicultural city. We've just elected our first Muslim mayor. I live side by side with people from different backgrounds and I don't have a pro

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, that's fine. I think I've made my main point. Thank you.