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Debate on Article 18 of the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights will be held in the House of Lords in UK, specifically touching on the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, which are currently violated worldwide.

As MP Lord David Alton writes in his blog, religious persecution of Christians are going on around the globe and it’s necessary to remember what Armenian Genocide teaches us.

According to him, systematic persecution of Christians is not a new phenomenon. In the Roman Empire Christians were condemned to death. Also campaigns against the Armenian Christians and Christians in Namibia were being held, which Lord Alton calls “the first genocides of the twentieth century”. 

He reminds that Armenia adopted Christianity back in the 4th century, and even then fell victim to the persecution by the Roman Empire. The same persecutions recurred after 600 years. 

Besides, Lord Alton notes that it’s the Armenian Genocide and the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel that can teach us a lot today, when Christians are persecuted all over the world. 

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