Lord Alton remembers the Egyptian Coptic martyrs

In his latest blog, Lord Alton notes that today is the anniversary of the killing by ISIS of 20 Egyptian Copts by ISIS. He writes: 'There's an old saying "forgive and forget". It's not a saying I like or one with which I agree. We should certainly try to forgive but not to forget.

'Forgive and remember strikes me as a better maxim - and remembering is what draws us together again on this day, to recall the martyrdom of the 21 men, the 21 saints, who were brutally beheaded by Islamic State on February 15th, 2015.

'Forgiving and remembering is very different from Jihadist calls to revenge and the promotion of an ideology based on the hatred of difference.

'For decades I have been involved in the public life of the great city of Liverpool - which describes itself as the whole world in one city...'

To read on see: www.davidalton.net/2022/02/15/commemoration-february-15th-2022-on-the-anniversary-of-the-beheading-by-isis-of-20-egyptian-copts-and-their-companion-in-a-barbaric-execution/

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