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Read the latest articles, speeches, debates, reports and anything else that David Alton has written recently.  This page is updated regularly, and typically will only contain pieces written in the last month or two months.  If you are having trouble finding what you're looking for, please go to the Library page, which is an archive of as much of David's writing as is available.

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Universe columns

Political Renewal

Tibet

Day of Prayer for Sudan

Three columns on North Korea

World Food Crisis

Burma and the Winds of Change

Why We Need A National Bioethics Commission

10 million Under 5s Die each year - Time To Act

Iran: A Study In Tyranny

Palm Sunday and Easter 2008

Chief Rabbi - The Home we Build Together

Yamanaka's Breakthrough Renders Use of Human Embryos Unnecessary

The Secret Resting Place of Margaret Clitherow

Of Angels and Justice

Amazing Grace

Why Gordon Brown Should Call An Election

Ghana and A Memorable 50th Anniversary

Berlin Police and A Memory of the Holocaust

Amnesty and Abortion

That Hideous Strength

The Cost of Conflict in Africa

The Challenge of Poverty

Darfur - Will there be anyone left to save

Brave Vietnamese Priest Jailed Again

The United Nations - saving North Korea from hell

Eugenics and euthanasia

The lonely 21st century

 

Articles and reports

Gladstone – son of Liverpool, scourge of tyrants.

Tibet: Breaking the Deadlock (PDF format)

CARPE DIEM - Seizing the moment for change in North Korea (Word format)

At Crewe: “Where Ought I to Be?”

Darfur - will there be anyone left to save?

Now Is The Time To Draw The Line

The Right to Know Our Identity

The Life of William Roscoe - father of Liverpool Culture

Vietnam and Religious Liberty

Where Forty Years of Abortion Has Led

Three Armenian Reflections

Report on the Congo

Report on North Korea

Report on Rwanda

Report on the Sudan

Report on poverty in Brazil

PowerPoint presentations: 

To learn more on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill go to pasionforlife.org.uk or download the PowerPoint presentation

Deus Caritas Est

Dignitatis Humanae and Celebrate! 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Recent debates

Darfur Speech March 5th 2009

North Korea

Stem Cell Therapy

China, Human Rights, and The Beijing Olympics

Africa: Conflict

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (Second Reading)

Palliative Care Bill

Darfur (Jan. '07)

Key Speeches by David Alton during the passage of the HFE Bill

Slavery

North Korea and nuclear testing

North Korea and Darfur

Education & Inspections Bill

Burma: UN Security Council

The Joffe Bill (euthanasia)

Debate on violence in the Congo

Other

The Edge Hill By-Election

Senator George Mitchell

The Gulags of North Korea

To listen to a 2008 Roscoe Lecture, and earlier ones, introduced by David Alton, visit www.ljmu.ac.uk/citizen, then click Roscoe lectures, then podcast.

Read Spoken Interventions in the House of Lords

Dignitatis Humanae and Its Contribution To International Religious Freedom Since Vatican II

Burma: genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity

Written Questions In the House of Lords

Parliamentary briefing on Darfur

The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien, Catholicism and the use of Allegory

Click here to read David Alton and Michele Lombardo's new book "Passion and Pain", a 13-week devotional on the Suffering Church (published by the Jubilee Campaign). 

 

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