VoteClimate: Persecution of Christians - 8th April 2025

Persecution of Christians - 8th April 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Persecution of Christians.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-04-08/debates/263F52A8-AA52-418D-8E69-E41582AE9A22/PersecutionOfChristians

09:42 Desmond Swayne (Conservative)

Nigeria is No. 7 on the world watchlist published by Open Doors. Some of the most egregious examples of persecution, with whole communities being laid waste, come from Plateau state. Many commentators, including the EU Parliament, have put that down to the pressures brought about by climate change. Well, climate change does not rape people. Climate change does not bomb church services. Climate change does not abduct women and children and force them into marriage. Those things are done because of an extremist ideology entirely unrestrained by proper state power, because of the state’s incompetence, indifference or even complicity.

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