Victor Schoelcher was Frenchman who travelled to Mexico, Florida, Louisiana and Cuba on a business trip. During his travels he realised how appalling the slaves were treated and became a leading figure in the abolitionist movement. He is seen as the father of the abolition of Slavery in the French colonies. He was appointed in 1848 as under-secretary of the navy and the colonies. As part of the provisional government of the brand new Second Republic in France he wrote the decree abolishing slavery in all French colonies signed on27th April 1848. In the decree he stated that Slavery is a violation of Human dignity. The government rejected his proposal to compensate the former slaves with grants for plots of land. Sources used People of Peace by Sandrine Mirza Wikipedia

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Academia and Education Humanities Sara Ahmed - professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London *Natural science Hassan Ehsan Masood - a science writer, journalist and broadcaster. Saiful Islam - professor of material Chemistry at the University of Bath, recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Research merit award Syma Knalid - biophysicist and Professor of Computable Biophysics in Chemistry at the University of Southampton. University Leadership and Executives Nazir Afzal - solicitor - spent most of his career in the Crown Prosecution Service. In 2018 became chair of the Corporation Board at Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi- lawyer, politician - former conservative party chairman and now member of the House of Lords (2007) Science and Medicine Nadia Bukhari - pharmacist - since 2003 she has been serving in academia at University College of London. She is the global lead at the International Pharmaceutical Federation (IPF) to promote gender equality in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2018 awarded the youngest Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Also the first Muslim female to be on the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy for England,U.K… Quanta A. Ahmed - a physician specializing in sleep disorders. She is also an author, newspaper columnist and a women’s rights activist. Rozina Ali - a microvascular reconstructive plastic surgeon and consultant with special interest in breast reconstruction, plus also being a television presenter. Source Wikipedia

Fai-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi - by profession is a barrister - he is a Muslim scholar and principal and founding trustee of the Hijaz College in Nuneaton, England. He is founder of the Hijaz Community. He is also National Convenor of the Muslim Action Committee and Secretary General of the International Muslims Organization. Professor Haroon Ahmed - is a scientist specialising the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He is at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge. Hasnat Khan -he is a heart and lung surgeon. best known for his relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales. Isabella Abbott (1919-2010) born in Hawaii -was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist.She became a leading expert on Pacific Marine algae. Mohammad Naseem (1924-2014) -by profession a doctor- Muslim leader and political activist-was chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust (Central). Musharraf Hussain - scientist, educator and religious scholar in Nottingham, U.K. Chief Executive of the Karimia institute and author of Chief Editor of the Invitation a Muslim family magazine. He is also a senior trustee of Muslim Hands an international charity working in 50 countries. 2006 chair of the UK-Indonesian Islamic advisory group by Prime Minister. 2008-10 chairman of the Christian Muslim forum. Tariq Ali - a political activist, journalist, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual. Author of many books (See list and 5 covers). He contributes toThe Guardian Counter-Punch and London Review of Books. Ziauddin Sardar is a scholar, award winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futurology, science and cultural relations - author and editor of more than 50 books.( See 6 covers)

Harpal Singh - a former professional footballer who played for Bradford City , Bristol Rovers, Bury, Leeds, Stockport County, Sligo Rovers, Bohemians and Dundalk. Jazz Juttle- former Scottish footballer who was part of the Rangers youth system -eventually played for Greenock Morton, He was one of the few from Scottish Asian descent to be involved in professional football in Scotland Mark Chopra -position striker - spent 6 years at Newcastle United but never secured a regular place in the first team. Went on loan to Watford, Nottingham Forest and Barnsley. Played for Cardiff ( four), Sunderland, Ipswich Town, Blackpool, Kerala Blasters (twice) and Alloa Athletic. Represented England at under 16, 17,19 and 20 levels. Mark Ravin Ramprakash - a gifted former right handed cricketer. Selected for England aged only 21 but rarely performed to his full potential in his long but intermittent international career in Tests and ODI (1991-2002) . Played originally for Middlesex and then moved to Surrey -averaged over 100 first class runs in seasons 2006 and 2007 . He scored 100 first class centuries. In 2014 appointed as England’s batting coach. Neil Taylor- footballer - played for Wrexham, Swansea City and Aston Villa - made international debut for Wales in 2010 Ravi Bopara - cricket all-rounder - bats right handed and bowls right arm medium- played for Sussex. He was part of the England team from 2007-15. He scored 3 consecutive 100s for England against the West Indies in 2008-9 but then struggled to find best form and was dropped. In 2016 he took over the captaincy of the Essex one day team. Ronni Irani- former England cricket all-rounder- right-handed batsman and right arm medium bowler - found niche in One Day Internationals (ODI). Began career with Lancashire then spent most of his career at Essex County Cricket Club. he was an all-rounder until 2003 when a knee injury stopped him from bowling. Retired from first class cricket in 2007. He scored 20,000 runs and took 650 wickets. Yan Dhanda - he is an attacking midfield footballer - began career at West Bromwich, spent 5 years in the youth ranks at Liverpool, now plays for Swansea City. Represented England at U16 and U 17s. He says racism inspires him to play his best.

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Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II (1935-2009) better known as Reverend Ike was an American minister and evangelist based in New York . His ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s when his weekly radio sermons were carried by 100s of stations across the USA… He was famous for his ‘Blessing Plan’- radio listeners sent him money and in return he blessed them. He bought in 1969 for more than $500,000 the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre movie palace. It was known locally as Reverend Ike’s Prayer Tower. He had it fully restored and decorated luxuriously. In 2016 it was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmark Commission. His preaching was considered a form of new-age theology. He diverged from traditional Christian theology and taught what he calledScience of Living**.

Graeme Goldsworthy (born 1934) is an Australian evangelical theologian specialising in the O.T and Biblical theology. Graeme has been influential across the world but especially in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney where his work has been crucial for shaping how Sydney Australians think about and preach from the Bible. His most significant work is a trilogy Gospel and Kingdom, Gospel and Wisdom,and The Gospel in Revelation (See ‘Works’ for full list)

Bro. Daniel S. Razon (born 1967) acts as the Assistant Overall Servant of the Members Church of God International (MCGI) (1997 to present). He is also a broadcast journalist and prominent television and radio personality. He is fondly known as ‘Kuya Daniel’ and ‘.Public Service’ for the works and iinnovations he has pioneered that are centred on helping the public . He was born in Bulacan, Philippines. He once aspired to become a doctor but took up Mass Communications in college as advised by Bro. Eli - who took to preaching The Old Path on the radio and television. The Old Path is recognized as the longest religious programme in the Philippines. He assists Bro. Eli in leading the activities and propagation endeavours of the church as well as to attend to the overall spiritual, physical and mental welfare of the brethren. He has pioneered many oF MCGI’s existing organizations and ministries. He co-founded Bible Readers Society International. He spearheaded Worldwide Bible Expositions.

Douglas Coe (1928-2017) was an American ordained ruling elder and lay minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. He was the associate director of The Fellowship (also known as family of friends in Christ, the Prayer Breakfast groups) He was reluctant to speak in public and routinely denied requests for interviews and speeches to large audiences. He met and worked for Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian methodist evangelist and founder of International Christian Leadership (ICI). He was fascinated by his visionary communication of a leadership led by God, empowered by his Spirit. and became his assistant director. Douglas was mentored by the young Billy Graham. The Fellowship was a behind the scenes player at the Camp David Accords in 1978. In March 2009 he was a featured speaker at the Idaho State Prayer Breakfast. The extent of Douglas’s influence in American politics is a subject of debate. In 2005 Douglas was named as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the USA by Time magazine. Douglas died, aged 88, in Annapolis, Maryland on 21st February 2017 from complications of heart attack.

Daniel Chad is a British evangelist from London, UK. He was born in Bedford. Before he became a Christian he was an amateur boxer who lived a life of addiction, violence and negativity and was on course for an 8 year prison sentence. It was through this desperation that Daniel was told about Jesus. The love of God broke into his life and this led to a powerful conversion. Not long after his salvation he began to pray and heal people on the streets. People surrendered their lives to Jesus in shopping centres, churches and in hospitals. He graduated from the Reinhard Bonke School of Evangelism and was catapulted into the ministry at the age of 21. He has preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ iN the UK, Poland, Pakistan, Austria, Abu Dhabi, Germany and many more. He has appeared on TV - Revelation TV and the God TV. He is well known due to his evangelism and healing ministry videos.

Bayless Conley is an American gospel pastor and television personality who hosts Answers With Bayless Conleyon T.V… He says he found God 35 years ago through a 12 year old Christian boy. The Answers programme can be heard weekly on CNBC in Europe, North Africa, in the Middle East. in Mexico on Genesis T.V.and on other local channels. He has also founded Cottonwood Church In January 2014 he was hospitalized after a boating accident but has since recovered and returned to ministry.

Ethiopians around the world celebrate the baptism of Jesus with the feast of Timkat - celebrations are spread over 3 Days. it involves processions, singing and dancing. On the 19th/20th (leap year) January is the most important day when the blessing of water and reaffirming of baptism vows take place.

Gary R. Hall was the 10th dean of Washington National Cathedral (2012-2015) He was born in Los Angeles. He holds an A.B. from UC-Berkeley and a Ph.D from UCLA, plus a M. Div from episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. He has been an ordained minister for more than 35 years. He served several parishes in the USA . The congregations he served included All Saints Pasadena where he was senior clergy associate for education for 11 years. He taught Anglican theology and Polity at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont. He was both dean and president at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston (2005-10). Before he became dean at Washington National Cathedral he was the rector of Christ Church Cranbrook. When he arrived he was told $50 milion was needed for quake damage and long term financial stability. He was known as a fix-up man. He raised the cathedral’s profile with his outspoken and steady public comments on things like race, transgender rights and gun control. He said later the place needed to raise $50 million, a decade, over the next 30 years to be sustainable. He currently serves as the National Cathedral’s chief ecclesiastical leader and executive officer, working closely with the bishop of Washington and governing bodies to shape and support ministries in the city of Washington,the nation and the world.

Theodore Epp (1907-1985) was an American Christian clergyman, writer and a radio evangelist. He was the founding director and speaker of the Back to the Bible broadcasts between 1939-1985 (46 years) -when he retired. He was heard worldwide on 800 stations in 8 languages. He was born in Oraibi, Arizona - the son of Russian Mennonite immigrants who were missionaries to the Hopi Indians. he attended Hesston College and the Bible Institute of Los Angles (now Biola University). In 1932 received a ThM form Southwestern Theological Seminary. Back to the Bible also had a choir and a weekly youth programme featuring a youth choir and serialized adventures with a Christian theme. The programme remains headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. He wrote a total of 138 books. Theodore carried on broadcasting throughout his life… He died, aged 78, on 13th October 1985 ,a very shortly after he had retired.

Roland Allen was an English missionary to China sent by the the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG. He was ordained a deacon in 1892 and priest the next year. He spent two periods in China , 1895-1990 ( forced to flee because of the Boxer Rebellion. He returned in 1902 but forced to return home due to illness He became an advocate for churches to establish from the beginning a self-supporting/propagating/governing church.After visiting India in 1910 he published Missionary Methods in 1912- one of 10 books he wrote (see Works). His views became increasingly influential. He spent the last years of his life in Kenya. He died in Nairobi.

James was an American Roman Catholic priest who became a missionary in China. In 1915 he became the second priest ordained in the new Maryknoll order. In 1918,with three others, he was sent on his first mission to China. His early years were chaotic- being captured by bandits and caught in local conflicts. In 1927 he was consecrated Maryknoll’s first bishop.In 1936 he left China to become head of Maryknoll. During his 10 year term he oversaw Maryknoll’s first missions to Latin America and Africa In 1948, following the Holy See’s special request, he returned to China to coordinate mission activities in China. The Communist party seized power in 1949. He expected to be arrested but that did not happen until 1958. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison- 12 spent in isolation. He was released in 1970. His release was an important at gesture leading to the thawing of relations with President Nixion’s visit to China in 1972 James returned to the USA,. He did aged 91 in Maryknoll, New York from a heart ailment.

Joseph was a British protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 in Beijing. He specialised in Chinese religions, especially Buddhism… He was a linguist, translator and philologist. He penned many books about the Chinese language (See ‘Works’). He graduated in1843 from the University of London and ordained in 1847. In 1848 the London Missionary Society (LMS) sent him to China. He edited the Chinese and Foreign Concord Almanach from 1852-58. He also collaborated with others to translate many Western scientific works and the Bible. He was also involved with direct evangelism travelling with Hudson Taylor on his first canal travels in China. In 1872 he collaborate with William A.P. Martin to publish Peking Magazine- 36 issues terminated in 1875. In 1880 resigned form LMS to become a translator for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. He became the Customs head and translated a series called 16 Primers for Western Knowledge covering many subjects. In 1903 he survived typhoid and was still writing at the age of 81. He died in Shanghai on Easter Sunday 1905. He married three times , his first wife , Jane Rowbotham Stobbs, died in 1863 aged just 22.

James, with co-founder Rev. Thomas Frederick Price, founded Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America - CFMSA in 1911. ( See separate sheet About Maryknoll - The Maryknoll Magazine) James attended Boston College High School where his skills in debating and journalism were first recognised. He transferred to Harvard College as a ‘special student’. He completed his studies at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Boston. In 1992 he was ordained. In 1903 he was appointed Diocesan Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and in 1907 he founded The Field Afar magazine. He served as Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers Brothers from 1911 until his death in 1936. During that time he made trips across the USA , Rome and other places throughout the world. In 1933 he was named to the episcopacy as Titular, Bishop of Seine. His teaching, as a priest, gave students strong encouragement to follow their dreams in life,

John was a Scottish Christian missionary, orientalist and educator in the Bombay presidency, British India. In 1828 he married Margaret Bayne and together they went as missionaries of the Scottish Missionary Society (SMS) to Bombay. He was more intelligent than his siblings- learning to walk and talk at an early age. In the playground he was regarded as the ‘priest’ because he often preached to his classmates!l 1819-1827 he attended the University of Edinburgh studying linguistics (8 languages), philosophy and theology. His first experience of teaching was as a guide and tutor to the three boys of Colonel Rose Cormack as they travelled through the Netherlands. In Bombay the couple studied Marathi at Harnai. John established the Ambroli Church, a school for the young and a college (1832-6). In 1829 Margaret established schools for girls. In 1832 she established a boarding school for females - now called St. Columbia High School. They opened schools in Marathi and Hebrew for the native Jewish community of boys and girls. They translated the Old Testament for their benefit. John was an author of many books (see Writings) and a started a periodical The Oriental Christian Spectator which ran from 1830-1862. He was an archaeologist and passionate advocate for the preservation of Indian historical monuments becoming the Honorary President of the Asiatic Society in Bombay. In 1948 he was elected the first president of the Bombay Cave Temple Commission In 1857 he helped establish Bombay University and became Vice-chancellor in 1869.