Westminster Cathedral is to be floodlit in red in November this year to highlight the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
In an article for the Catholic Truth Society online, Lord Alton of Liverpool wrote that, in November, Aid to the Church in Need is arranging for Westminster Cathedral "to be floodlit in red to commemorate the persecuted. If every parish in the country did the same it might at last wake up our political classes to the scale of the suffering."
Lord Alton wrote: "In more than 100 countries Christians are persecuted...In Parliament I hosted a meeting of the charity, Aid to the Church In Need (ACN). We heard of how a Christian pastor in a village of Aleppo was told to convert or die. He was forced to watch as his 12-year-old son was tortured: the boy’s fingers cut from his hand. Neither the father or son renounced their faith, and both were executed.
