Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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L to R: Kishan Manocha, Lembit Opik MP, Bahar Tahzib, Barney Leith
I had the honour of being one of a four-person delegation who met with the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown MP, in his House of Commons office this afternoon. The meeting had been set up by Lembit Opik MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha’is to [...]
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On Monday 21st July I attended the Government’s launch of its new inter-faith strategy in London’s famous Westminster Central Hall.
In introducing Face to Face and Side by Side: A Framework for Partnership in Our Multi Faith Society, Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears MP, spoke of the practical contribution made by faith communities to life in the [...]
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The Bahá’í community in the UK and elsewhere has been very effective in raising support in parliaments and governments for the plight of the Bahá’ís in Iran.
Yesterday I wrote about the short debate in the House of Lords
How do we get this kind of support?
Of course, this kind of parliamentary intervention, the EU statement and [...]
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I am in the middle of prepare=ing to chair a meeting in Welwyn Garden City this evening on the theme of Faith in Government. The speakers will be the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St Albans, Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions, [...]
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The Dean’s Yard, Westminster Abbey © Mirsasha under a Creative Commons licence.
I should start by saying I’d intended to post this some days ago, but found myself overtaken by pressure of work.
On 14th February the Faith Communities Forum (which is part of the Inter Faith Network for the UK) met in Church House at the [...]
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