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It was an honour to welcome Baroness Caroline Cox to BCC
Last year, I attended an excellent all-day seminar in London hosted by the Christian Legal Centre. Among the speakers was The Baroness Cox of Queensbury.
I was deeply impressed by her sense of passion and conviction for Christians who are 'holding the line', sometimes with their lives in different parts of the world. Coming away from such an event, I confess that my levels of tolerance towards some of our 'Western Christian concerns' was massively reduced!
We ARE blessed and we need to 'wake up and smell the coffee' - people are being persecuted and even dying today simply because they are followers of Jesus Christ. In comparison to that, our lives really are not that bad!
In 2003 Baroness Cox founded the The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) HART works to provide lasting change through aid and advocacy for those suffering oppression and persecution, who are largely neglected by the international media.
HART believe that in order to adequately meet the needs and requirements of the persecuted , oppressed and overlooked; we must ask the local people for their priorities, giving them the dignity of choice and the responsibility of their own programmes. Lady Cox travels to HART funded aid and advocacy programmes in Nagorno Karabagh, East and West Burma, East Timor, India, Nigeria, southern Sudan and northern Uganda.
Having Baroness Cox at BCC on Sunday 17 May is a huge privilege and I'd like to thank Dr. Chris Lavers for the work he's done behind the scences to make this possible. Don't miss what's sure to be a thought provoking and potentially life changing morning!
Bob Hyde
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